Steve Dawe

‘A sobering preview’: extreme heat now affects one in three people globally, study finds Rising temperatures making it hard even for young, healthy people to safely do normal physical tasks in many regions

‘A sobering preview’: extreme heat now affects one in three people globally, study finds www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Reaching net zero by 2050 is often framed as a cost burden.

The UK Climate Change Committee’s latest analysis suggests the opposite.

The real risk is fossil fuel dependency.

This is absolutely disgraceful and deeply perpetuates the divisions between research active and teaching and scholarship colleagues. HE teaching requires research skills and this division is as incoherent and unsound as it is immoral.

Valuable arguments against opponents of Climate policies:

Reaching net zero by 2050 ‘cheaper for UK than one fossil fuel crisis’ Climate change committee finds move to renewable energy would also bring health, economic and security benefits

Our dependency on fossil fuels makes us vulnerable. Wars across the world are pushing up prices for households in the UK.

Why keep waiting for the next crisis? We need to transition to clean power as fast as we can to protect people and our economy.

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Fig. 3: Critical temperature thresholds for Antarctic ice basins. Bottom panel: burning embers show—for each of the 18 Antarctic ice basins—the percentage of long-term (equilibrium) sea-level relevant ice volume loss compared with the respective initial ice volume, at different levels of global warming (in °C above pre-industrial temperature levels, interpolated between full degrees). White diamonds mark the one-degree temperature interval of the strongest decline (ice loss per degree of warming, see also Fig. 2). In some basins, two critical temperatures yielding peak volume loss are found—this can be interpreted as the respective basin having two tipping points. Top panel: sea-level potential for each basin, given by the initial modelled sea-level relevant ice volume in metres sea-level equivalent.

Mapping tipping risks from Antarctic ice basins under global warming
Winkelmann+
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"A first threshold, potentially as low as 1–2 °C above pre-industrial levels, triggers the long-term collapse of ~40% of marine ice volume in West Antarctica"

At the bottom of the photo a partial view of a pavement with a bench towards the right hand side. Behind it a mass of wild flowers, mostly Kidney Vetch and Ox-eye Daisies. In the background are houses, a few parked cars, and some small trees. There are white clouds in an otherwise blue sky.

Our Wildflower Enhancement Project at Rock Edge has increased populations of important wildflowers such as Field and Small Scabious and vastly increased the resource of nectar and pollen-rich flowers available to insects on this amenity grassland. Link in next post. 🌰🌍 #WildflowerHour

How hot will the seafloor get?

A new Spotlight in TREE highlights our Konsta et al paper: bottom marine #heatwaves could expose >90% of #Mediterranean benthic species to extreme heat for 150–300 days/year by 2100. 🌐🌍🌊 #ClimateChange
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Fukushima at 15: Living with radioactive hot spots and stigma as Japan's government pushes for more reactors Fifteen years later, the lived experience of people resettling the evacuation zone reveals an ongoing disaster at Fukushima—one filled with radioactive hot spots, injustices, and stigma.

Fukushima after 15 years: an ongoing calamity: thebulletin.org/2026/03/fuku...

None of this is new. “Heat pumps are superior in efficiency to condensing boilers, even if the heat pumps are powered by electricity from a power station burning natural gas.” Not me saying that but the late Prof Sir David MacKay in 2008 in his landmark book. www.withouthotair.com

From the @thecccuk.bsky.social showing that one of the best uses of renewable electricity is to power a heat pump.

Keir Starmer and David Lammy are taking an extraordinarily dangerous gamble with our individual liberty This week, MPs will vote on the second reading of the Courts and Tribunals Bill. Don’t let the anodyne name fool you – this is one of the most revolutionary pieces of legislation in our…

Labour's core voters, on which its re-election entirely depends, are crystal clear about this: they absolutely hate its illiberal, intolerant, draconian, rightwards turn. Hence the total collapse in support. So how does the government respond? #SuicideMission🤦‍♂️
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What were those MEPs thinking?

Crucial point is alternatives exist. they are cheap. The sun and wind are not being choked at Hormuz.

The worst case scenario for oil companies is that people permanently shift... what they call “demand destruction“

This war will accelerates that ongoing shift to solar+EVs+batteries.

1/ "Higher energy, fertilizer and transport costs – including
freight rates, bunker fuel prices and insurance premiums – may increase food costs and intensify cost-of-living pressures, particularly for the most vulnerable."

Excellent report by UNCTAD
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Emissions (grams of CO2 per kilowatt hour) from North Sea gas vs LNG imports. Source: Carbon Brief analysis

Factcheck: North Sea gas is not ‘four times cleaner’ than LNG imports | @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org #CBarchive

Read here: buff.ly/IoMIeUt

The damaging cost of not achieving a much earlier transition to renewable energy includes this:

Chinese Turbine Suppliers Seize the Spotlight as Global Wind Power Installations Hit All-Time High, BloombergNEF Report Shows | BloombergNEF Global wind capacity additions hit an all-time high in 2025, marking a third straight year of record installations, according to BloombergNEF's annual Global Wind Turbine Market Shares 2025,

IS WIND STRUGGLING?

Not at all. Global deployment rose by +38% last year💪

- 169 GW installed in 2025
- 95% onshore, 5% off
- Led by China: +47% to 126GW
- Outside China: +17% to 37GW

"This momentum is not fading. We expect similar levels to end of this decade."

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UK’s dependence on gas for home heating leaves households especially exposed to volatility in international energy markets

Spike in gas prices hit UK worst in W. Europe following Russian invasion, acc IMF

Nuclear industry “is dead”, EU focus should be on renewables Analysts tell Montel Europe's nuclear industry

Residual demand in Europe is insufficient to make nuclear investments viable. Renewables-heavy systems provide flexibility through batteries, demand response and pumped hydropower rather than additional nuclear capacity.
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This is a terrible and very uninformed take of Tim who should know better.

- heat pumps save around 80% gas today compared to gas boilers

- using renewable electricity is one of the most effective ways to reduce gas consumption

- the marginal emissions argument is deeply flawed (more in comments)

Gender, climate and knowledge: Community adaptation through a gender lens - Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research In this three-part podcast special, you will hear leading researchers explore the important intersection of gender, climate, and knowledge. Recorded at the

How does focusing on women's knowledge reshape climate adaptation? 🎧️ This podcast series explores gender, climate and knowledge intersections: from grassroots forecasting to bridging the gaps between scientific data, policies, and real-life experiences. Start with Ep 1: buff.ly/mikijeu

Reform UK staged a press conference today pledging to scrap the North Sea windfall tax and the upcoming fuel duty rise.

Here's our response from @hollybt.bsky.social, director of politics 👇

Gas is Europe’s most critical vulnerability, and countries that rely on it for electricity production, like 🇮🇹, 🇬🇷, or 🇮🇪, could see a big increase in bills.
Meanwhile, countries using more renewable energy, like 🇪🇸 & 🇵🇹 are more resilient against the price shocks.
Read more @eurcorrespond.bsky.social 👇

Four ways to tackle health and climate together – and lift millions of people out of poverty Health and climate action can be designed together, supporting and reinforcing each other, instead of being treated as separate priorities.

"Switching to electric transport means cleaner air and reduced toxic exposure. It also creates cooler, less polluted and quieter cities. This reduces respiratory and cardiovascular disease, reduces heat-related injuries and deaths."

#Health #ClimateAction

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A habitability lens to boost effective local climate adaptation Climate adaptation is what we (will) make of it, that is, either a burden or an opportunity for a brighter and equitable future. Achieving effective a…

Doomism can be an obstacle to adaptation, not just cutting emissions. Here, a group of us who have worked in small islands states argue that focusing on habitability - what you want to keep and improve, not what you will lose - boosts adaptation efforts.
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What about the climate? How the Green party's messaging has changed in 2026 - Climate Outreach Eco-populism is the Green’s new approach – but is the eco missing? The Green Party of England and Wales are riding high in the polls. It’s just over a week […]

Really good critique of the unfounded idea that the Green Party has dropped Climate or environment as concerns: climateoutreach.org/greens_ecopo...

Our borders are not secure against this: theecologist.org/2026/mar/10/...