Cecilia Keating

Want to understand why last week's IPCC talks in Ethiopia were suspended? @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org, @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org and I looked at what went down + what it all means for the next round of IPCC climate-science reports and UN's global stocktake. ➡️ tinyurl.com/34mb98je

NEW – Revealed: Expensive gas behind ‘nearly 90%’ of rise in UK electricity bills ✍️ By @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org 💬 With comments from @acjsissons.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/z1WXNOo

Cited 🗞️ IPCC’s crunch talks | El Niño peak | Himalaya flood risk ✍️ Written by @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org, edited by @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org Read here ➡️ buff.ly/qmFeuRJ Subscribe here ➡️ www.carbonbrief.org/newsletters

Ahead of the IPCC-65 meeting kicking off next week in Addis, no better time to share @carbonbrief.org's explainer on the ongoing standoff between nations over the timeline of reports -- and why it matters for global climate action. www.carbonbrief.org/qa-why-the-s...

NEW – Forests ‘degraded’ | COP17 nears | ‘Wild river’ risks ✍️ Written by @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org and @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org 📝 Edited by @giulianaviglione.bsky.social Read here ➡️ buff.ly/Abom65A Subscribe to our newsletters ➡️ carbonbrief.org/newsletters

Cited 🗞️ Record-breaking El Niño | The EU ‘OceanEye’ project | Antarctic sea ice peak ✍️ Written by @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org, edited by @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org Read here ➡️ www.carbonbrief.org/cited-29-sep... Subscribe here ➡️ www.carbonbrief.org/newsletters

Want to understand why journalists and politicians get so excited about AI doomsday predictions but mostly ignore climate change? It's called *information pollution.* Thank you to @amywestervelt.bsky.social for coining this important new term and writing a book about it, and explaining it to me!

NEW – El Niño: Indonesia fire emissions in 2026 ‘on track’ to match record for this century | @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/hpDWyRU

I had the exciting opportunity to write a guest post for @carbonbrief.org about our new paper on the expansion of extreme heat seasons around the world. Take a read for a digestible summary of our approach and key results!

NEW - We looked at what can, and can't, be said about climate change and the 2026 Himalayan floods Attribution is difficult, but rising temps, permafrost thaw and glacier melt may have all contributed to the disaster Feat. insights @iceybethan.bsky.social & Jakob Steiner shorturl.at/J66h

From ‘psyops’ to ‘hysterical hysteria’: how GB News and Talk TV lost their cool in the heatwaves www.theguardian.com/environment/...

ICYMI - last month @carbonbrief.org looked at why land-use emissions have fallen by 1/3 this century Via 6 charts, article explores: 🍃 why - and how - land-use emissions have declined 🌳 the countries responsible for the decline 🌴 the role of re/afforestation www.carbonbrief.org/why-land-use...

NEW – Why land-use emissions have fallen by a third this century – in six charts ✍️ written by @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org Read here ➡️ buff.ly/g4Yoc1U

Lies. It's 200 times when solar panels are "mentioned" in the fire report. e.g. “the fire did not reach the solar panel”

Carbon capture and storage is the subject of considerable hype – but as it stands, very little CO2 is being captured and stored.

🧵Right-leaning newspapers are trying to blame Europe's raging wildfires on everything EXCEPT fossil fuels 1. The Wall Street Journal Frontpage story: "Greece fights wildfires as Europe crisis spreads" WSJ editorial: "How green policies fuel fires in Europe"

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2026 is on track to be the warmest (~35% chance) or second warmest (~63%) year on record, while 2027 is very likely (92% chance) to be the warmest on record on the back of a growing super El Niño event. For more, check out my new Carbon Brief State of the Climate Q2 update: www.carbonbrief.org/...

NEW I looked at the different ways heat-related deaths have been reported by governments and scientists during the recent heatwaves in May and June for @carbonbrief.org . Broadly speaking, there are two approaches — each with pros and cons. For more, see: www.carbonbrief.org/qa-europes-m...

NEW: During last month’s record-breaking heatwave, there were more than 2,700 heat-related deaths in France. That’s according to new analysis for @carbonbrief.org from @ccallahan45.bsky.social and @andrewdessler.com Read more: www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-f...

Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.

Blatant lobbying, not for the sake of our country, but for the fossil fuel industry, in which almost all the ultrarich - including, in all likelihood, the proprietors of these newspapers - are heavily invested. These people are not and never will be your friends. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...

Guest post: Climate change has caused one-fifth of Pine Island glacier retreat ✍️ Written by Dr Alex Bradley Read here: buff.ly/9kymZzp

All the people who are saying it's too expensive to tackle climate change today are the same people who twenty years ago said that climate change wasn't really happening

Media reaction: How climate change intensified Europe’s record-breaking June heat ✍️ Written by @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org @giulianaviglione.bsky.social @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org and @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social Read here ➡️ buff.ly/cySkDf0

There were those who doubted us, but a new independent report shows major reductions in air pollution in our city are linked to an estimated 40% fewer annual premature deaths.

After 18 months of R&D with a team of specialist academics, I'm VERY excited to say that @carbonbrief.org has just launched 'Project Cosmos'... ...the world's largest database of climate research Our hope is this becomes a major new resource interactive.carbonbrief.org/cosmos/index...

The attacks on Ed Miliband, the one truly successful person running a department under Starmer, shows that the lack of seriousness in British politics goes way beyond No.10 to the press, the trade unions, the business sector.

Experts: Why carbon removal needs a ‘major scale up’ to return warming to 1.5C ✍️ @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org Read here ⬇️

Just adding finish touches to a MAJOR project that @carbonbrief.org has been working on with a team of academics over past 18 months. V exciting to be on verge of now releasing it into the wild! Our subscribers will get an alert on Monday as soon as it goes live... subscribe.carbonbrief.org

🌽 New Cropped just dropped 🌽 Cropped: Coral reef ‘hope’ | Ocean talks | Plant flowering times ‘shift’ 📝 By @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org and @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org Read here ➡️ bit.ly/4vYt8u4 Subscribe to our newsletters ➡️ buff.ly/k84LIFK

🇮🇹Pleased to be Milan until Friday for the 4th international #CDR conference 🌳 🔍 Am on the look out for interesting projects and upcoming research that might be a good fit for @carbonbrief.org … so come say hi

Carbon Brief’s first edition of ‘Cited’ has just been published 🚀 Cited: Europe’s ‘exceptional’ heatwave | Warming forecast | AMOC observations ‘at risk’ ✍️ Written by @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org Read here ➡️ bit.ly/4xhzxln Subscribe to Cited ➡️ bit.ly/4dWmpul

🔔Later today, Carbon Brief is launching Cited, a new fortnightly newsletter all about climate research. 📃It will capture the latest studies, preprints and media coverage. ✉️The first edition is coming this afternoon! ⏬ Sign up now bit.ly/4dVGEbz

Blair may not think he's a "climate denier" but he is essentially reading from a list of climate denier talking points to make his case for abandoning net-zero.

NEW – Factcheck: Trump’s false claims about the IPCC and ‘RCP8.5’ climate scenario | @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org @hausfath.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/727LWJo

Wes Streeting is far from being the only politician who is guilty of this, but it is always weird to me how you can write a paragraph on the challenges the world faces and not mention climate change.

FACTCHECK: What the UK car industry is not saying about EV targets Despite all the "demand is falling short" narratives, they're actually smashing it! The industry has so far "over-complied" with the ZEV mandate – and it's on track for this year too www.carbonbrief.org/...

There's a terrific new article by @carbonbrief.org on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation with some great animations. Strongly recommended. I've been reading it ahead of giving a lecture on the risks of climate change tomorrow. interactive.carbonbrief.org/amoc-explain...

NEW: How is climate change impacting the AMOC, the Atlantic currents that help keep Europe warm? @carbonbrief.org’s new in-depth explainer covers: 🌊 How the AMOC is impacted by warming 🌎 What research says about AMOC collapse 🗞️ How the media covers AMOC Read more here: tinyurl.com/5caxbw5a

🌍 @carbonbrief.org's latest "state of the climate” update is out. It finds: 🌡️The first 3 months of 2026 were the 4th warmest on record 🌊2026 is on track to be 2nd warmest year, with a strong - & potentially ‘super' - El Niño brewing 🌇 Temps in 2027 could reach new high shorturl.at/6IYk6

Renewable energy overtook coal in 2025 to become the world’s largest source of electricity, according to @ember-energy.org Together with other clean energy sources, renewables helped push fossil fuel generation into structural decline last year – falling by 0.2%

🇦🇫 For @carbonbrief.org's DeBriefed newsletter, I looked at how climate change and extreme weather is impacting Afghanistan, a country with limited access to climate finance. ⬇️ The newsletter also sums up all the biggest climate news of the week - catch up below www.carbonbrief.org/debriefed-17...

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 #CBarchive Read here ⬇️

The IPCC is now more than half way through its latest ‘assessment cycle’ — and countries have still not agreed on when to publish its next landmark report. I looked at the standoff, why it matters — and where things could go from here www.carbonbrief.org/qa-why-the-s...

Saudi Arabia, Russia and others yet again blocking progress on climate science ... > IPCC: ‘Frustrating and disappointing’ meeting leaves AR7 timeline in deadlock #climatecrisis @carbonbrief.org www.carbonbrief.org/ipcc-frustra...