'...A Climate of Truth, with its second heading, Why We Need It and How to Get It, is also meant as a practical guide and inspiration, predicated on a warning. It opens by putting climate in the context of what Berners-Lee identifies as a ‘polycrisis’ of problems ... But climate is the focus ... “If you look at how the global energy supply has changed since COP 1 in 1995, we have grown the non-fossil fuel energy supply by 75%. That sounds good, until you understand that, over the same period, we have grown the fossil fuel energy supply by 66%.” Mike’s solution to these failings is a “system reset” in society, which reconfigures the way we make decisions and “our relationship with truth”. He believes that a respect for truth in politics, business and the media – truly holding people to account for lies or their support of lies – is “our point of maximum leverage”. ...' (date: 03/09/2025)
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Drax’s shares plunge as City watchdog investigates sourcing of wood pellets | Drax | The Guardian
Drax’s shares plunge as City watchdog investigates sourcing of wood pellets FCA inquiry into biomass power station relates to disclosures and transparency over two-year period Analysis: Latest Drax inquiry will raise fresh questions about its billions in subsidies Kalyeena Makortoff and Jillian Ambrose Thu 28 Aug 2025 16.15 BST Share The power generator Drax has revealed it is under investigation by the City watchdog over “historical statements” made about the sourcing of wood pellets for its biomass power station. (date: 02/09/2025)
The Quaternary glaciation, also known as the Pleistocene glaciation, is an alternating series of glacial and interglacial periods during the Quaternary period that began 2.58 Ma (million years ago) and is ongoing.[1][2][3] Although geologists describe this entire period up to the present as an "ice age", in popular culture this term usually refers to the most recent glacial period, or to the Pleistocene epoch in general.[4] Since Earth still has polar ice sheets, geologists consider the Quaternary glaciation to be ongoing, though currently in an interglacial period. (date: 31/08/2025)
Clean-up after flash-flooding on the Isle of Wight
Sudden heavy rain left streets under water and threatened properties in Cowes and Ryde. (date: 02/08/2025)
Trump bids to scrap almost all pollution regulations – can anything stop this?
EPA tries to rescind ‘endangerment finding’ – part of ‘drill, baby, drill’ agenda that experts say poses grave threat (date: 01/08/2025)
Greece enlists help from European allies to tackle raging wildfires
Czech firefighters and Italian aircraft join fight against blazes that have ravaged homes and forced evacuations (date: 27/07/2025)
Thames Water - Climate Change Adaptation Report 2024
Nice glossy report, showing the challenges TW faces and modelling used. References to the Water Resources Management Plan. Note they need an extra billion litres water per day by 2050 (460Ml/d of which due to climate change + preparing for 1-in-500-year drought resilience). From ARP4: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/climate-adaption-reporting-fourth-round-water (date: 24/07/2025)
NHS England » 4th Health and climate adaptation report
"Our climate is rapidly changing. With 6 of the last 10 years (2014-2023) ranking among the warmest on record since 1884, the impacts are already proving costly to both society and the NHS, with future costs expected to rise. ... While estimating the full extent is challenging, heat-related mortality in England alone costs £6.8 billion annually, likely to increase to £14.7 billion per year by the 2050s. These figures underscore the urgent need for action...." See embedded: https://www.ukclimaterisk.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/CCRA3-Chapter-5-FINAL.pdf (date: 24/07/2025)
This report highlights the risks we face in the Environment Agency, in protecting the environment, water users and other sectors. In many of the sectors we cover, the risks are notably high. Adding the impacts of Climate Change, some of these reach the highest levels of Impact and Likelihood (e.g. for our assets). (date: 24/07/2025)
‘Broken’ water industry in England and Wales faces tighter controls under new watchdog
EA water regulation functions to be merged with Offwat and others. Big changes in my world… (date: 22/07/2025)
‘Keeping us hooked on fossil fuels’: how can we negotiate with autocracies on the climate crisis?
The bulk of global greenhouse gas emissions come from countries that are not democratic, and many big oil and gas exporters are also authoritarian (date: 18/07/2025)
In its refusal to nationalise water, itâs clear the government operates in the interests of private capital and not of the country, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot (date: 17/07/2025)
China’s coal heartland fighting for a greener future
Shanxi produces more coal than India. How will it survive in Chinaâs clean energy future? (date: 09/07/2025)
Climate breakdown tripled death toll in Europe’s June heatwave, study finds
Heat caused 2,300 deaths across 12 cities, of which 1,500 were down to climate crisis, scientists say (date: 09/07/2025)
Dhaka builds for a wetter future – in pictures
(date: 07/07/2025)
Texas floods reveal limitations of disaster forecasting under climate crisis
(date: 06/07/2025)
Crete wildfire forces 1,500 to evacuate as Europe heatwave continues
Fire on island being fanned by gale-force winds as blazes also rage on mainland Greece and in Germany (date: 03/07/2025)
More than 80% of UK farmers worried about climate crisis harming livelihood, study finds
Farmers warn of risk to Britain’s food supply as more than three-quarters take hit to income from extreme weather (date: 02/07/2025)
(date: 01/07/2025)
Spain records highs of 46C and France under alert as Europe swelters in heatwave
Extreme heat ‘the new normal’, says UN chief, as authorities across the continent issue health warnings (date: 30/06/2025)
Ex-world leaders call for ‘powerful shift’ as they warn of extreme inequality
Former leaders urge current state heads to work together to end poverty amid potential of first trillionaires emerging (date: 26/06/2025)
Includes impacts modelling on overshooting to 3degC then bringing temperatures back to 1.5 by year 2300. (date: 26/06/2025)
Planetary boundaries - Stockholm Resilience Centre
In 2023: 6 of the 9 planetary boundaries have been crossed. (date: 26/06/2025)
Past and future sea level rise - Met Office
Projections: 50 - 80+cm by 2100; 0.5 - 7m by 2300. (date: 26/06/2025)
Double record breaker: Spring 2025 is warmest and sunniest on UK record - Met Office
"This combination of heat and sunshine, coupled with very low rainfall, has created challenging conditions across much of the country for agriculture and water resources. "By mid-May, the UK was experiencing its driest spring in over 100 years. Although recent wet weather has eased conditions slightly, Spring 2025 still ranks as the sixth driest spring since this series began in 1836, with just 128.2mm of rainfall – approximately 40% below the long-term average and still the driest spring in more than 50 years. "England was particularly dry, experiencing its driest spring in more than 100 years, beaten only by 1893. Wales saw its sixth driest spring, and all other nations fell out of the top ten driest by the end of the month. " (date: 26/06/2025)
The tech giants use AI but is it any good? - BBC Weather
Can't do small scale; or > 6days. Also need physical models for training data + initial conditions. Techniques are developing though. (date: 25/06/2025)
(date: 12/06/2025)
Kabul at risk of becoming first modern city to run out of water, report warns
NGO says Afghan capital’s 7 million people face existential crisis that world needs urgently to address (date: 07/06/2025)
Climate change could bring insect-borne tropical diseases to UK, scientists warn
(date: 23/05/2025)
Fires drove record loss of world’s forests last year, ‘frightening’ data shows
(date: 21/05/2025)
‘We are witnessing ecocide’: Santander accused of funding vast deforestation
In 2024, the Spanish bank provided more than $600m in financing to firms linked to beef, palm oil, soya and supply chains driving deforestation, says Global Witness (date: 15/05/2025)
Tech oligarchs are gambling our future on a fantasy | Adam Becker
(date: 03/05/2025)
India and Pakistan already sweltering in ‘new normal’ heatwave conditions
(date: 30/04/2025)
Labour not protecting people, economy and homes from climate crisis, watchdog says
Plans to protect UK from extreme weather are inadequate, Climate Change Committee says in scathing assessment (date: 30/04/2025)
The fossil fuel industry spent $219 million to elect the new U.S. government
“The oil and gas industry spent about $220m in campaign and political action committee donations in the 2024 US election, according to a recent Yale Climate Connections analysis. About 88% of donations went toward Republican candidates, including nearly $23m toward Donald Trump and groups supporting him.” - Guardian (date: 24/04/2025)
Scientists brace ‘for the worst’ as Trump purges climate mentions from websites
(date: 10/04/2025)
Revealed: Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas
Amazon, Google and Microsoft are building datacentres in water-scarce parts of five continents (date: 09/04/2025)
Gulf Stream could collapse as early as 2025, study suggests
(date: 06/04/2025)
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