Prof. Peter Strachan

Sir #DavidAttenborough “Things are going to get worse." "This is the new extinction." "We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get." #ClimateCrisis vox.com/2019/4/12/1830…

Firefighting planes scrambled from south of #France to tackle huge wildfire near #Paris "Human-caused #climatebreakdown is supercharging extreme weather across the world, driving more frequent and more deadly disasters such as #heatwaves and #wildfires" theguardian.com/world/2026/jul…

A New Era for #Solar Reliability #Masdar Secures $5.1 Billion for World’s Largest Solar-and-Battery Project "The gigascale project will comprise a 5.2-GW solar photovoltaic plant with a 19 gigawatt-hour battery energy storage system" #RenewableEnergy share.google/bRmgxDRjGo1AY6…

Lazard Report Finds #RenewableEnergy Still Leads on Cost as Power Demand Soars "Lazard said solar & wind continue to offer the lowest unsubsidized levelized cost of new generation & are expected to account for most near-term capacity additions" #NetZero finance.yahoo.com/energy/article…

Opinions differ. Measurements don't. 428.9 ppm atmospheric CO₂. Every year we delay cutting emissions, the challenge grows, the costs of limiting future warming rise, and the range of available options narrows. #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #NetZero

#Datacentres drive up big tech’s carbon emissions to a third of those of France "#Microsoft, #Amazon & #Google's collective carbon emissions have increased by nearly a fifth in the past year, driven largely by datacentre construction" #ClimateCrisis theguardian.com/us-news/2026/j…

Too hot to ignore The oceans are full of heat, and it’s coming ashore "Nearly 40% of ocean area worldwide is undergoing a marine heatwave, with intense hot patches in the Mediterranean Sea and the Pacific Ocean" #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis yahoo.com/news/science/a…

Staggering "Over the past century, #England & Wales have lost 98% of wildflower meadows. We have also destroyed half of Britain’s ancient woodland, half of lowland ponds, 90% of freshwater #wetlands and 62% of all “farmland” wild #birds." #Biodiversity theguardian.com/news/2026/jul/…

‘No one wants to be right about this’: #ClimateChange scientists’ horror & exasperation as predictions play out  "It’s as if the human race has received a terminal medical diagnosis & knows there is a cure, but has consciously decided not to save itself" theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

How bad will it get? What frightens me about the #ClimateCrisis is we don’t know how bad things really are "What we do know is that so far, the effects of heating the #climate are sooner and worse than many scientists projected (in public at least)" theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Why scientists are using the word scary over the #ClimateEmergency "More and more scientists are now admitting publicly that they are scared by the recent #ClimateCrisis extremes" #ClimateChange theguardian.com/environment/20…

More cause for concern: Collapse of Atlantic Currents May Be ‘Locked In’ “What the model is saying...is, ‘Let’s do everything in our power to get to #netzero as quickly as possible to try to keep this probability down at the 10% level’” #ClimateCrisis e360.yale.edu/digest/amoc-co…

@MarkPlackett1 Great thread, Mark. Thanks for taking the time to pull this together. It’s an excellent resource and saves others considerable effort in gathering similar information. Much appreciated.

Well people that's called curtailment and thats what planning is all about.

May & June #heatwaves killed about 2,700 people in England & Wales, data suggests "The #ClimateChange Committee has warned for more than a decade that the UK’s plans to protect people from rapidly worsening #extremeweather are inadequate" #ClimateCrisis theguardian.com/environment/20…

Europe’s #Nuclear Plants Can’t Beat the Heat "Europe can expect this kind of strain to be the new normal as #globalwarming alters climatic patterns around the world and increases the frequency and intensity of #extremeweather" #NuclearPower @dorfman_p oilprice.com/Alternative-En…

Collapse of #AMOC ocean current may already be locked in “There is a significant probability that we’re already committed to collapse, and we can’t change that even now,” says Phil Holden  #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChaos #Echobox=1783838003" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">newscientist.com/article/253301…

UK waters hit with extreme heatwave as global sea temperatures reach record levels "Experts warn that some marine species are at risk of ‘mass mortality events’ in ever-warming oceans" #ClinateChange #ClimateCrisis @Animal_Watch @ECOWARRIORSS theguardian.com/environment/20…

"At a time when so much looks grim, the #Renewables revolution holds out real hope." "In 2025, more power was generated worldwide from #RenewableEnergy than from #coal and 91% of new renewables are now cheaper than #fossilfuels." @mzjacobson @theSNP thenational.scot/comment/259582…

#USA Accounted for Nearly 50% of World’s CO2 Emissions Growth in 2025 - Thanks, #AI Data Center Explosion & Pro-#Pollution #Trump "US emissions rose by 3.2% in 2025, much more than that global average of 1.4%." #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis cleantechnica.com/2026/07/09/us-…

Western #Europe has hottest June on record "The heatwave broke monthly and all-time temperature records across several European countries and contributed to severe health impacts, including heat-related deaths" #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis wmo.int/media/news/wes…