Kevin Anderson

lol you could use this argument for every single source of emissions to justify not cutting any emissions. This quantitative downplaying is literally a textbook climate denial tactic.

"Happy" 25th birthday to "BECCS" October 26, 2001 – BioEnergy Carbon Capture and Storage mooted allouryesterdays.info/2023/10/25/o...

Anything can be broken down until its contribution is deemed irrelevant; it's a dangerous & familiar tactic for dismissing the need for change by sectors, nations & at city levels. The Jackdaw decision sets a precedent that will be used in planning, etc. to justify yet more hi-carbon developments.

After Burnham's 'pragmatic' decision, how sure can we be that the foreign gas we are said now not to have to import will not be used elsewhere, just the same, reducing the incentive of whoever buys it to switch to renewables? A good response from Prof Kevin Anderson bsky.app/profile/kevi...

Here's my two penn'orth: climateuncensored.com/jackdaw-a-de...

This is also why analysis like this by @kevinclimate.bsky.social is crucial. At present, the UK's annual emission cuts are about 2% i.e. not even consistent with what is required for the 2°C goal climateuncensored.com/jackdaw-a-de...

new ff extraction is ‘a decision for last century’ #auspol Decisions incompatible with both science and international agreements already made

"Why are we still arguing about how to produce more gas when our international commitments require us to reduce fossil-fuel use rapidly" Required reading from @kevinclimate.bsky.social including the distraction of Net zero by 2050 vs. the reality of CO₂ emissions. #Climate #Jackdaw #ClimateChange

"To deliver the Paris commitment to keep warming well below 2°C requires global CO₂ emissions to fall by around 8% annually, starting immediately. The rate would be higher for the UK and other developed countries if the equity dimension of the Paris Agreement were taken seriously."

"The UK Gov has now given the go-ahead for the Jackdaw gas field in the N.Sea. This is not simply a decision about one development. It exposes a fundamental contradiction b/w the Gov's stated #climate commitments, its claims about energy security & its obligations under UNFCCC & the Paris Agreement"

Jackdaw: a decision for last century. climateuncensored.com/jackdaw-a-de... A hastily drafted post following the UK Govt’s decision to approve further drilling & production at the Jackdaw gas field in the North Sea. Please excuse typos, non-sequiturs, etc - I wanted to get the post online today.

As the Jackdaw and Rosebank decisions pop up again I'm going to repeat post this link. It's a helpful read.

@kevinclimate.bsky.social recently: #Jackdaw #Rosebank “If the UK develops additional oil and gas production, that does not mean an equivalent quantity of production elsewhere automatically stops. It adds additional fossil-fuel supply to an international market... bsky.app/profile/kevi...

Andy Burnham must reject the Rosebank oil field

Senior scientists are quite often uncomfortable communicating results that might make them look "radical" or "alarmist" in my experience. Due to all sorts of reasons.

I gave them my vote, my time, my energy and - perhaps most importantly - my trust. That trust has been broken. Why I broke up with David Eby’s NDP #bcpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/10/14/o...

This area in front of Gare du Nord in Paris used to be full of cars and totally chaotic, but they recently limited the street to pedestrians and cyclists and it has made a huge difference. This is what cities that care about people do.

And to think Carney was Johnson climate finance guru - just after he stepped down from the lucrative role as Governor of the Bank of England. Typically the ‘great & good’ are part of the climate problem not the solution.

The new Climate Action Tracker update on Canada is alarming. What has shocked me the most and may come as a big surprise to many is the way in which Mark Carney has steadily dismantled Canada‘s Climate policies to the point where he’s heading towards Trump level rollbacks. lnkd.in/p/d2RVBBae

very welcome additional remarks from Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social in the same article >> Fantastical solutions are “a way of postponing difficult choices today by placing hope in solutions that may arrive tomorrow”

Thanks for the thread.

Net zero 2050 is a political anchor increasingly distant from the science aligned with our UNFCCC, Paris &ICJ commitments. Simple Q. As we face a cumulative emission challenge & global emissions are still rising, how can we still have the same end date. Each year we fail so the date moves closer.

Tomorrow at New Scientist Live: an emergency briefing on nature and climate with @kevinclimate.bsky.social, Nathalie Seddon (@naturebasedsols.bsky.social), and @rowhoop.bsky.social. I'll talk about how unprepared we are for food system risks. Sunday 14:40, Future Stage, ExCeL #NewScientistLive

Speaking tomorrow at New Scientist Live with Profs Behrens & Seddon. The Paris climate challenge is no longer a matter of urgency, but of emergency. Urgency seeks to accelerate change; emergency demands & fundamentally different policy & technology agenda. live.newscientist.com/speakers/kev...

My comment was specifically aimed at those on “high incomes … accompanied by prestige, status and glittering honours”. My experience is that early-career researchers (ECRs), and many others, typically remain more committed to integrity and to careful, considered interpretations of their work.

Perhaps, but I also think we hugely underestimate the allure of prestige and high income. I suspect we all like to think we're immune to such temptations, but in our quieter, more reflective moments, I think we're aware of our own more ephemeral foibles.

A perceptive, short article (including some statements by @kevinclimate.bsky.social ), on a newly published study by others. www.theguardian.com/environment/... A key point here:

Well said - once again - @kevinclimate.bsky.social. Climate science really is constrained by social hierarchies

Thanks for you ongoing moral clarity! To add to your point, I think we need to stop letting people call the more delusional proposals like planetary scale CDR or solar geoengineering techno-optimism. A more accurate term is techno-salvationism because these claims are more ideology than science.

@kevinclimate.bsky.social on techno-optimism and fellow scientists "who have swallowed the blue pill" and "maintain the comforting fiction that they are deeply concerned about the world their children will inherit while continuing to live lives that contribute disproportionately to the problem."

The Guardian also covered the study today: www.theguardian.com/environment/... with comments from @kevinclimate.bsky.social

Thanks Barry for reminding of this - I completely forgot that I'd previously penned something explicit on individual and collective action as two sides of the same coin.

Worth looking at @kevinclimate.bsky.social's "succinct account of my view on individual and collective action": kevinanderson.info/blog/a-succi... (though a lot has also changed since 2016: inc. UK retreat from open society principles...)

Quoted in the Guardian today on the technical hopium that, in my experience, has become widespread among many, usually senior, climate experts. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Quoted in the Guardian today on the technical hopium that, in my experience, has become widespread among many, usually senior, climate experts. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We’re happy to announce that @kevinclimate.bsky.social Kevin Anderson, Professor of Energy and Climate Change, University of Manchester, will join us for the ClimateExistence conference 2026! Read more and register here: www.cemus.uu.se/ce-2026-ka/

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Dr @dancalverley.bsky.social & I provided an expert report in a landmark case brought by ten Australians challenging their Govt's support for Australia's coal & gas exports & their associated climate& human rights impacts. The report & associated links are here: climateuncensored.com/australias-f...

For those of you on LinkedIn, I’ve just opened an account and shared my first post! It’s about Heathrow expansion, rising emissions and the uncomfortable realities of reconciling the two. www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-and...

This is the sophisticated answer to the ‘British oil and gas makes sense’ question that I’ve been looking for.

Stinging rebuke for the Climate Change Committee from @kevinclimate.bsky.social: ‘A credible climate advisory body must be willing to say when a politically attractive policy is incompatible with the UK’s climate commitments.’

For those of you on LinkedIn, I’ve just opened an account and shared my first post! It’s about Heathrow expansion, rising emissions and the uncomfortable realities of reconciling the two. www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-and...

Sept 16, 1969 – Nobel-prize winning Australian scientist warns about CO2 build-up "Sir Macfarlane said the other requirements included a stabilisation of the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to avoid the possibility of disastrous climatic change." allouryesterdays.info/2022/09/15/s...

The CCC @thecccuk.bsky.social offers Heathrow a thumbs up, conditional on the massive deployment of “snake oil” technologies (SAF & GGR). Report by Tyndall researchers, building on UK Govt commitments, science & maths, reaches a very different conclusion. See: climateuncensored.com/heathrow-exp...

Had to look up supine. "er lag auf dem Rücken" = he lay on his back. The translation invokes an image of a lap dog exposing its throat in submission to a direwolf. While not intended, it perfectly matches how your CCC behaves. Our German one too, by the way. Lap dogs, supine before a dire BAU wolf.