media manager

Head of communications at the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (@ECIU_UK). Formerly Media Relations Manager at WWF-UK http://eciu.net/

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Via Brendan Leonard @semi_rad 

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'The beginning of a new era': solar power breaks record for UK power generation.

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News from the UK power grid; the energy transition is happening!

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IEA finds CO2 emissions flat for third straight year even as global economy grew in 2016

Latest estimates find continuing decoupling of global emissions and economic activity

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2016 hottest year ever recorded – and scientists say human activity to blame 

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World heat shatters records in 2016 in new sign of global warming (via Reuters). 

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XKCD’s excellent presentation on historical global temperature and anthropogenic global warming. 

[After setting your car on fire] “Listen, your car’s temperature has changed before.”

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Awesome way to put it in a infographic.

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This is excellent - a timeline of Earth's average temperature since the last ice age (full post available here). Two key points: firstly, if you look at the very end, you can see how global average temperatures have shot up since the industrial revolution.

And secondly, we are on track for global temperature rises due to man-made global warming of between 4-5 degrees centigrade by the end of this century. That may not sound like much but globally, small changes make a big difference; 4-5 degrees is the same temperature difference between modern times and the last ice age, when the world was a very different place.

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Someday we may see this as the moment that we finally decided to save our planet.

Barack Obama

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We are the 'last generation' that can stop climate change, warns Leonardo DiCaprio. 

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2016 is on track to be the world’s hottest year on record, says World Meteorological Organization. 

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Coral bleaching event now biggest in history – and about to get worse, says NOAA. 

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World approaching peak fossil fuels for electricity in less than a decade, says @BloombergNEF (by @tsrandall) 

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Air pollution is rising at an 'alarming rate' in the world's cities, says the World Health Organisation (WHO). 

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MPs on House of Commons environmental audit select committee warn that a vote to leave the EU would threaten UK environmental policy. 

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Big news: Peabody Energy, the world’s largest privately owned coal producer, has filed for US bankruptcy (news via Reuters, image via 350) 

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Hugely significant: International Energy Agency confirms decoupling of global emissions and economic growth. Vital step in fight to tackle climate change.