Renewables are now the world's largest source of electricity – and the main source of new supplies

Surely it's an attempt at humour? It has to be right? RIGHT??

It does appear to be him once again, yes 🤡🤡🤡

😂 🙃 🤔 🫠 😭

A very notable thing about this graph is that it is not a long list of developed countries. Developing countries also list high on the list, well above the EU average (and long above the US). EVs are better than ICE, people are noticing, and the transition is happening...

Here's the full article again:

Finally, earlier this week, the double-counted number appeared in the Conservative "Right Way" booklet

The same claim was then repeated, citing Turver, by the Great British Think Tank in March (This org has the tagline “data, not vibes” and says of its work: “Every figure [is] sourced from official public bodies.”)

It seems the original sin here was by David Turver, a retired engineer and self-described "accidental energy analyst", who made the £957bn claim in a 12 Jan article for the Spectator, previewing his 13 Jan report for rightwing thinktank the Institute of Economic Affairs

It's such an idiotic error that it's hard to explain. I tried at greater length in my article:

Contrary to the Tory claim, the CCC never said net-zero would cost £957bn The error seems to stem from a Jan26 report, that apparently added up numbers twice in a 2020 CCC spreadsheet (pic) So it's double the CCC estimate 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

The false claim in the Conservative document is referenced to a footnote – which I guess lends it a sense of authority? – and the footnote links back to the CCC's 2020 sixth carbon budget advice But the £957bn figure does not appear in the CCC advice

The Conservative doc, which makes great play of the need for "competent" govt and "political judgement", falsely claims that in 2020, climate advisers the CCC put the cost of net-zero at £957bn over 30yrs 2020-50

FACTCHECK: UK Conservatives double the ‘cost of net-zero’ after spreadsheet blunder The Tory "Right Way" booklet makes an erroneous claim about the cost of cutting emissions, possibly taken from a Jan26 thinktank report, and deffo the most idiotic error I've seen for a while 🧵

Guardian frontpage today on budget action to cut UK household energy bills lists "rising block tariffs" as one of the options. But there are well-known issues with the idea. eg Centre for Net Zero says it "work[s] against electrification" What do you think? Could it happen?

It's been over a year. 90 page strategy documents have now been published. Multiple interviews have been given. And still no one has pinned Kemi Badenoch down on what her alternative approach to tackling climate change without getting to net zero by 2050 actually entails.

Sánchez calls elections for November 29. Odds strongly against him but history suggests it would be unwise to write off the great survivor of Spanish politics entirely. The timing is typically canny: seizing moment where the national conversation has turned from migration to housing.