Several University of Leeds experts helped to shape this POSTnote that focuses on the potential of heat pumps.

Including @dave_barns, Dr Frin Bale 🇺🇦, Fleur Loveridge, Alice Owen and Simon Rees.

Take a look at the full publication using the link below ⬇️

This was fun! Talking with parliamentarians about realist approaches to thinking about and using evidence - not sure how impressed Greg Clark was! Drawing on Nature Energy paper w/ Prof Lucie Middlemiss Dr Katy Roelich 🇺🇦. UCL Energy Institute CREDS EnergyREV Sense about Science

Dear the BBC. Offering a prime time radio 4 slot on heat pumps to the UK's largest gas and oil boiler manufacturer and allowing them to spout industry propaganda unchallenged is probably part of the reason we are in such a mess with heating.

This is terrible 'false balance' reporting from the BBC.

It is not just 'environmental groups' who say more oil & gas fields would take us over carbon targets.

It's IPCC, International Energy Agency, Climate Change Committee & the well-established scientific consensus.

For more...

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Great coverage in Yorkshire Evening Post of our Climate Action Leeds climate hub that launches today

We urgently need spaces to tackle the #Climate #nature and #social emergencies and imagine a new Leeds.....

University of Leeds Sustainability
Alex Sobel for Leeds Central and Headingley
VoluntaryActionLeeds
Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire
Tom Riordan
Andy Goldring

Brilliant position with the briliant Dr Frin Bale 🇺🇦

I am delighted to share that I have been awarded a British Academy Visiting Fellwoship. I will join Prof Lucie Middlemiss Dr Katy Roelich 🇺🇦 @mmbuchs and Pepa Ambrosio-Albala at University of Leeds for 4 months to collaborate on wellbasedEU project 😀 #energypoverty #SDG7

Many small investments in local infrastructure services better value for society than mega projects. Not really news for #ibuild researchers, but the message still isn't getting through! @PhilPurnell Claire Walsh Dr Peter O'Brien Graham Thrower Dr Katy Roelich 🇺🇦
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So crucial to shift from 'is the mine carbon neutral?' to 'Why, in a country with a statutory net zero target, are we even discussing opening a new mine?' but this thread is a really clear recognition of how embedded the former is. So important to flush out the right questions...

Still pinching myself about this!

So great to see people at the centre of all of these points about Net Zero *starts another new reading list*

So pleased to see a flurry of resignations in response to this partnership

Climate strategies need to work for people. But how does government actually think about us humans?

Research I’ve just published shows that official government strategies on climate barely mention people at all.

A thread & summary briefing (1/8)

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Realist approaches and a Gromit gif? What's not to love.

I have two fabulous students funded by this CDT and it is a brilliant and supportive one. Highly recommend applying

So, it can be done

Just seen three really interesting research calls from different funders due within the first half of Sept. This basically rules out most people with caring responsibilities and a lot of others, given that university support staff also need holidays.
FUNDERS PLEASE DON'T DO THIS

Brilliant PhD with a brilliant team

New blog post sharing our work on social relations of energy retrofit funded by UKERC. Read all about Bob and Marie and why their retrofit decisions are as much relational as they are rational. ukerc.ac.uk/news/relations…

I love it when Dr Frin Bale 🇺🇦 sets fire to straw people! And uses fruit to avoid being sweary