Leo Hickman
@LeoHickman
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Director/editor of @CarbonBrief. Served 16 years at the Guardian. Author of A Life Stripped Bare, The Final Call, Will Jellyfish Rule the World?...
Joined August 2010
I very rarely post here now – or monitor it, tbh - so for sane, informed, nuanced news, discussion etc about climate-related matters, please follow me at the other place... https://t.co/otzna5vaxR
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Had the most ridiculous response to an FOI that I have ever received. Request for information was refused because it might "divert internal Defra resource away from work required to improve chalk streams." Didn't realise the information rights team were out cleaning our streams!
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NEW – Analysis: UK would need forest ‘twice size of London’ to offset new airport expansion | @Josh_Gabbatiss @VernerViisas Read here ➡️ https://t.co/hwfyyds5dn
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This is my farewell post. I am not deleting this account, as I don’t want to lose the archive, and I don’t want my name taken by imposters. But, for as long as Musk owns the platform, I’ll no longer use it. I’m now posting at https://t.co/Ks8LIz0Qmt. Since Elon Musk bought this
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New #vacancy 🚨 ➡️ Do you know how to find, process and analyse data? ➡️ Can you spot opportunities to use data to inform topical talking points? ➡️ Do you want to contribute to accurate reporting of climate change and energy? Apply for the data analyst position here ⬇️
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NEW – Analysis: The climate papers most featured in the media in 2024 | @cecilia_keating @rtmcswee @AyeshaTandon Read here: https://t.co/5wALXeEArb
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NEW – Media reaction: The 2025 Los Angeles wildfires and the role of climate change | @Josh_Gabbatiss @cecilia_keating @MollyLempriere @rtmcswee @AyeshaTandon Read here: https://t.co/nK8B9P1nva
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Scientists developed the first climate models in the late 1960s (for which the Nobel Prize in physics was recently awarded!). How have these models held up against what happened in the real world after they were published? Surprisingly well, it turns out:
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Just tragic to see how fast the descent of the Conservatives has been since the days of cross-party consensus on climate action. They are now promoting random people/trolls on the internet (who actively hide their identities) plus dark-money lobbyists. Sad
The UK's shadow energy secretary is now promoting: * head of the most prominent UK climate-sceptic lobby group, Net Zero Watch (NZW); * armchair analyst who has written a report for NZW: * consultant who has written reports for NZW parent org GWPF; * some bloke who Tweets a lot
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Global surface temperatures set a new record in 2024, exceeding 1.5C above preindustrial levels in the majority of datasets. It was more than 0.1C warmer than the prior record set in 2023, and more than 0.25C warmer than any year prior to that.
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Cartoon in today's Times... ...which, notably, has its own challenging history on its op-ed pages of being in a la-la-land over the realities of climate change
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Well, this is quite the turaround Having spent much of 2024 complaining that the ZEV mandate was too hard, @Stellantis has announced that is has successfully met its EV sales targets Joins the likes of BMW, Mercedes and Hyundai in proving it can be done https://t.co/wac7ZVs7h5
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Stellantis is one of the few OEMs in the UK to comply – through sales – with the ZEV mandate for both cars and vans in 2024 Stellantis sold over 39,000 electric cars in 2024 – up 59% on 2023 Stella...
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ah, typo... I meant 4x bathrooms of course. Why would a 1x bed apartment need 4x bathrooms? The mind boggles.
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Thinking of going to COP30 in Belem, Brazil later this year? Well, here's the current state of things... A 1x bedroom apartment (with 4x bedrooms?!) is currently available for the bargain price of... £55,017 for 12x nights They have thoughtfully thrown in breakfast for free
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Seriously, I hope there are sensible people around Musk who could consider making an intervention. He is clearly not well and needs professional help.
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The headline is not just misleading …but complete misinformation - #worstpollreportof2025 (so far)
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+++NEW ANALYSIS+++ UK electricity was the cleanest ever in 2024, with emissions per unit falling by more than two-thirds in a decade Highlights: 🏭end of coal power after 142yrs 🔥fossil fuels at record-low 29% share 🌄renewables at record-high 45% https://t.co/zsH79J7HeK 1/9
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The former Elon Musk. Eight years ago. In discussion with Leonardo DiCaprio... "The more there can be a popular uprising against [the money and influence of the fossil fuel industry], the better." https://t.co/bUcoyIwXea
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