The Ed Miliband hate-fest in the UK press continued last year.
Predominantly right-wing newspapers published an incredible 112 editorials attacking the energy secretary.
That's two editorials a week, and more than twice as many as 2024, calling him a "crazed" "zealot" suffering with “eco insanity”
If you are a climate journalist – especially reporting at COP30 – please bookmark the database to help you find new and diverse voices for your reporting. 📝
If you are a climate expert from a global south country, I welcome you to add your name to the database. 📨
bit.ly/GSClimateDatabase
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@arguedasortiz.bsky.social and I launched the GSCD in 2022, to help journalists connect with climate experts from underrepresented countries.
We check every submission to the database ourselves.
And we have been blown away by the positive response to the database!
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In the newly updated database, you can search the 1,000+ experts by:
🌏 World region and/or country
🔬 Area of expertise
♀️ Gender
🗣️ Language
You can also use the search bar for an even more detailed search.
Huge props to @carbonbrief.org Tom Pearson for the fab design!
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UPDATE: We have revamped the Global South Climate Database 🎉
I'm super excited to announce this huge update, which makes the database even quicker and easier to use. (Also prettier ✨)
Please check it out to find brilliant climate experts from the global south 🌏
🔗 bit.ly/GSClimateDatabase
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Today's @carbonbrief.org Daily Briefing factchecks the false climate claims in Donald Trump's tirade to the UN
www.carbonbrief.org/daily-brief/...
New – Warming due to tropical deforestation linked to 28,000 ‘excess’ deaths per year
✍️ @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org w/ comment from Dr Carly Reddington, Dr Nicolas Wolff, Dr Luke Parsons, Dr Vikki Thompson
🔗 Read here: buff.ly/e6ll2uM
Huge thanks to the dozens of climate scientists who sent us their rebuttals to the catalogue of outright falsehoods and misleading claims in Trump's new 'critical' climate report.
This factcheck is the longest article CB has ever published - 27,500 words already and likely to keep growing...
Factcheck: Trump’s climate report includes more than 100 false or misleading claims
NEW – Factcheck: Trump’s climate report includes more than 100 false or misleading claims | @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org @leohickman.carbonbrief.org @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org
Read here: buff.ly/AvcB7Aw
NEW ANALYSIS - English neighbourhoods that are home to the most minority-ethnic people are 15 times more likely to face extreme heat than the least diverse areas.
Heatwaves are getting more severe – but the effects of rising temperatures are not being felt equally...
➡️ buff.ly/boWI6M1
🌊 Did you see the coverage last week of the paper led by Chris Stokes about long-term sea level rise from polar ice sheets?
It took me a while (cos, y'know, feelings), but here's my take on it: ▶️ youtu.be/sa9h_zVM1RY
Will you live an unprecedented life?
In our new paper in @nature.com and accompanying @savethechildren.org report, we detect who will face unprecedented lifetime exposure to climate extremes (🧵) 1/n
Report: resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/document/bor...
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Two important attribution studies were published today. I covered both for @carbonbrief.org
1️⃣ Shows that heat/drought extremes are overwhelmingly caused by the wealthiest 10%: buff.ly/0Se78bM
2️⃣ Finds that younger generations will face "unprecedented exposure" to climate extremes: buff.ly/Qxw80Un
It’s been a bit of a grim week hasn’t it?
But grateful for this expert summary of the biggest issues in climate right now by my colleagues @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org and @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org from EGU in Vienna
At #EGU25 in Vienna for the first time with the brilliant ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org
👋 Come say hi or drop me a line - keen to hear what you're working on for @carbonbrief.org
Back in sunny Vienna for #EGU25!
@ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org and I are in the hunt for exciting new science stories for @carbonbrief.org, so please do come and say hi if you see us 👋
Voting is likely the most significant act an individual (living in a democracy) can do re: reducing emissions. Discuss.
total clarity here from @edwardluce.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/4c4b...
Global South Climate Database update 🎉
@arguedasortiz.bsky.social, @katherinedunn.bsky.social and I have reviewed and updated all 1000+ entries in the database.
Please use this free, searchable database to get in touch with climate experts from the global south 🌏
bit.ly/GSClimateDat...
Really enjoyed appearing on UK icon Scroobius Pip's Distraction Pieces podcast to talk about my career as a climate journalist and the work of @carbonbrief.org
Please give it a listen! Ft. stories of polar bears and almost getting duped by a secret letter
open.spotify.com/episode/3VBK...
NEW – Arctic sea ice winter peak in 2025 is smallest in 47-year record | @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org
Read here: buff.ly/JWu7dPy
A lot to unpack from the @ipcc.bsky.social meeting last week!
Not least the continuing stalemate over the AR7 timeline, plus the US no-show, outlines for the working group reports and the CDR report + much more
Includes comments from IPCC chair @jimskeaclimate.bsky.social too ⬇️
NEW – IPCC’s special report on cities is its first with majority-women authorship team | @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org
Read here: https://buff.ly/4gUNZXd
Super thrilled Carbon Brief's @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org has been shortlisted for "Environment Journalist of the Year" at the Press Awards, widely seen as UK journalism's 'Oscars'.
He's the only journo from a specialist outlet, amid mainstream outlets such as Guardian, Express, FT, i, Politico
How audiences follow news on climate change?
This is the question at the heart of a new report by @waqasejaz.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social @richardfletcher.bsky.social based on survey data from 🇧🇷 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇳 🇯🇵 🇵🇰 🇬🇧 🇺🇸
Read here: https://buff.ly/4jwvTNG
7 findings in thread
NEW – Analysis: The climate papers most featured in the media in 2024 | @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org
Read here: https://buff.ly/4heAVMH
NEW – Interactive: How the world is already adapting to climate change | @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social
🎨 Kerry Cleaver, Tom Pearson @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org
Read here: https://buff.ly/3W5Vinj
No worries, we will definitely have another in the new year
Reminder - Oxford climate drinks is meeting at 6pm today!
The Vic is fab! It's our go to pub
