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Kevin Anderson

@kevinclimate.bsky.social

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Professor of Energy & Climate Change at Universities of Manchester & Uppsala.

Translating climate science, through carbon budgets, into policy goals & mitigation options.
Co-founder https://climateuncensored.com

Kevin Anderson is a British climate scientist. Anderson has a decade of industrial experience, principally as an engineer in the petrochemical industry. He regularly provides advice on issues of climate change across different tiers of governance, from local and regional through to national and the European Commission. .. more

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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 4h

Recent talk recorded with slides.

Available at: climateuncensored.com/a-velvet-or-...

The presentation builds on and expands my short contribution to last November’s National Emergency Briefing. climateuncensored.com/national-eme...

Duration: 50-minute talk followed by a 30-minute Q&A.

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RadReduction (Larry Edwards) @radreduction.bsky.social · 6d

"Fostering moral disengagement facilitates & encourages unrestrained, excessive consumption. …demand for air travel has been driven by the ideological manufacture of desire through targeted airline promotions that seek to ‘create’ consumers and accelerate air travel consumption."

Regulation needed.

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RadReduction (Larry Edwards) @radreduction.bsky.social · 6d

The "global aviation regime [is] adept at shaping user practices & culture to enable & encourage unconstrained air travel… This has influenced the public’s perception of possible regulatory regimes…"

"confront…artificial[] acceleration [of] demand."

OPEN ACCESS: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Journal of Sustainable tourism. 2026, Vol. 34, no. 2, 296–312

On all fronts: how to end aviation exceptionalism

James Maclaurin, Elisabeth Ellis and James Higham

ABSTRACT
We argue thataviation xceptionalism is both a demand side and a supply side problem.Despite exponentialincreases in demand for international air travel, plane makers have achieved only modest linear movement toward low carbon aviation technologies. Meanwhile, the global aviation regime has become adept at shaping user practices and culture to enable and encourage unconstrained air travel consumption.This has influenced the public’s perception of possible regulatory regimes and, along with persistent overestimation of technical debt, has prevented the use of regulations similar to those that are successfully moving the automotive sector to new low-carbon technologies. On the supply side, there is no realistic prospect of attaining sustainable aviation technology without a government-led, private-sector supported, moonshot-style collective effort. On the demand side, the psychological barriers to behavior change will not be resolved without confronting the drivers that ‘create’ air travel consumption and artificially accelerate demand.

Introduction
We have long known about the potentially catastrophic consequences of climate change (IPCC 2022). We have also known, in broad terms, what we need to do to avert disaster (Stern & Stiglitz, 2023). All successful solutions involve some mix of social/behavioral change, regulation, scientific discovery & commercialization of technological innovations (Geels & Kemp, 2007). Results have been mixed. 30 years after COP1 in Berlin there are still domains in which none of these strategies has had a significant effect on carbon emissions and radiative forcing more generally. This paper takes international aviation as an example of such an intractable domain… Reasons given for exceptions… no longer justify the exceptional status of international aviation…

Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 18d

Thanks for the feedback - & certainly an insightful quote.

Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 18d

Thanks for the kind comment.

Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 19d

Thanks for the kind support.

Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 19d

Hi Stephen. That’s certainly fine by me. I look forward to catching up.

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anlomedad @anlomedad.bsky.social · 19d

Ach ja. I tend to snort hopium, sorry. You're right of course.
And these 700Gt CO2 bound in rewilded areas currently in use for animal agri are also not safely stored in the new/old biomes. If climate keeps changing bc we keep emitting, they can go up in flames-eq too.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The carbon opportunity cost of animal-sourced food production on land - Nature Sustainability

Shifting global food production to plant-based diets by 2050 can sequester 99–163% of the CO2 emissions budget towards limiting climate warming to 1.5 °C.

Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 19d

Not sure - I'll enquire.

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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 19d

Speaking tomorrow evening (Thursday 22nd January) in Shrewsbury. Details here: greenshropshire.org.uk/news/shrewsb...

Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 19d

Not even for peat. Local climate impacts are too unpredictable for any biogenic CDR to provide certainty comparable to the guaranteed emissions from burning lithospheric carbon (oil/gas/coal), from AMOC risks to other feedbacks, especially as we've yet to demonstrate any effective global mitigation.

Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 20d

This link climateuncensored.com/national-eme... takes you to the video recording of my 15-min' presentation at the National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social & a 10-min' interview I gave to wedonthavetime.org immediately after the event (Nov. 2025). Selected slides attached for reference.

Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 20d

Agreed, but biogenic CDR is inherently temporary & uncertain, unlike the effectively permanent & guaranteed emissions from burning lithospheric carbon (oil, gas, coal). So use it to offset warming from unavoidable agricultural emissions, but it must not be used to compensate for fossil fuel CO₂.

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Frederik Hoedeman @fredhoedeman.bsky.social · 21d

🎯"This is the defining contradiction of our age: a species capable of extraordinary insight, yet seemingly incapable of acting in its own long-term interest. Whether this failure is a temporary lapse or a terminal condition remains unresolved. History, and geology, will render the verdict".

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Frederik Hoedeman @fredhoedeman.bsky.social · 21d

1979: "Empathy and trust must be restored between politicians, administrators, businessmen[sic], and activist groups"
2025: "Instead of empathy and trust we've chosen delusion, misinformation, lies. Worse, this magical thinking has spread into expert communities notwithstanding the laws of physics"

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RadReduction (Larry Edwards) @radreduction.bsky.social · 27d

Well, the circumstance we are now in with the climate (that we all depend on to meet our needs) rapidly collapsing, means that those who are well off need to *accept* that many of our wants really aren't needs. That's necessary to "serve the poorest first," and for "the best for future generations."

Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 29d

A short reflection on William Barbat's 1979 "CO2 Newsletter". allouryesterdays.info/2026/01/11/a...

"A species capable of extraordinary insight, yet seemingly incapable of acting in its own long-term interest": Professor Kevin Anderson on the C02 Newsletter - All Our Yesterdays

From 1979 to 1982 American geologist William N. Barbat published 18 issues of the CO2 Newsletter. His family have kindly supplied copies and given permission for these to be digitised and shared. Ever...

allouryesterdays.info

Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · Jan 6

I’ve little time for the elitist gong system. With occasional exceptions, it rewards those already privileged & who reinforce the establishment rather than challenge it. A scattering of minor honours for the underpaid/volunteers is moral camouflage for rewarding compliance & for flattering power.

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National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social · Dec 30

"We are pushing the climate far beyond the conditions that nurtured civilisation".

Prof @kevinclimate.bsky.social on dire consequences in store without emergency action to stop burning fossil fuels.

Watch the full talk here: www.nebriefing.org/briefings/cl...
#NEB2025 #TimeToStepUp

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National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social · Dec 23

2️⃣ Professor @kevinclimate.bsky.social: we're using up the carbon budget for staying under 2°C at 0.7% every single month, with a small but very real risk we could reach a catastrophic 4°C by 2100.

There are huge benefits for the majority if we address climate change.

www.nebriefing.org/take-action

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Covering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · Dec 12

The event, dubbed the National Emergency Briefing, included 10-minute presentations from a panel of distinguished scientists including @mikebernerslee.bsky.social, @kevinclimate.bsky.social, @hayleyjfowler.bsky.social, and @angelaisfranc.bsky.social, among others. buff.ly/dKmU0WM

National Emergency Briefing on climate & nature

An unfiltered assessment of the latest threats to UK food supply, health and national security from eight leading experts to an invitation-only audience - also covering positive solutions.…

www.nebriefing.org

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Infopoint #Klimawandel #Artensterben @infopointa.bsky.social · Dec 12

‼️Carbon budgets to start 2026

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Climate - Prof Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social
National Emergency Briefing
11 Dec 2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI8z...

@cducsueuropa.bsky.social @spdeuropa.bsky.social @spdfraktion.de @gruene-bundestag.de @dielinkebt.de @reuters.com

Revising and updating the carbon budgets to start 2026
Source: Climate - Prof Kevin Anderson | National Emergency Briefing
11 Dec 2025
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI8z6A0c5Q4&list=PL6b0HBZ3v-IkuFdfsieHeQVvo2rDWoADE&index=3

Revising and updating the carbon budgets to start 2026
Source: Climate - Prof Kevin Anderson | National Emergency Briefing
11 Dec 2025
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI8z6A0c5Q4&list=PL6b0HBZ3v-IkuFdfsieHeQVvo2rDWoADE&index=3

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Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research @tyndallcentre.bsky.social · Dec 11

Tyndall Centre members @hayleyjfowler.bsky.social + @kevinclimate.bsky.social were powerful speakers at the recent National Emergency Briefing on the climate and nature crises. Here's a write-up ⬇️

What we told UK leaders about climate and nature at a national emergency briefing

With so many influential people in the room, the hope was to see a tipping point in the engagement of political, faith, business and cultural leaders.

theconversation.com

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Badvertising @badvertising.bsky.social · Dec 8

🚨 Announcement from the Ministry for the Climate Emergency 🚨

The Ministry has published ‘We can’, a comic comparing humanity greatest leaps with the comparatively simple step of a fossil fuel ad ban. 🧵

Full comic 👉 www.badverts.org/campaign-upd...

A message from @kevinclimate.bsky.social 👇 1/3

Reposted by Hayley J. Fowler, Kevin Anderson

Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · Dec 5

It's awfully ironic that this was Lord Whitehead's answer, as at the @nebriefing.bsky.social Prof. @kevinclimate.bsky.social told the attendees in no uncertain terms that the 1.5C goal was now out of reach and 2C will soon be too!

That many dont know this yet shows the need of a government briefing

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Die Interessierte @interessierte.bsky.social · Dec 2

You already can look it here. And it's really worth it.

WATCH: National Emergency briefing on climate and nature by UK experts

YouTube video by GBNews

www.youtube.com

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · Dec 2

"We can not expect people who are poorer, already struggling to heat their homes & use their cars, we can't expect those people to be cutting their energy use. We have to expect that from the wealthy of us." @kevinclimate.bsky.social speaking at @nebriefing.bsky.social

Kevin Anderson - Professor of energy and climate change - National Emergency Briefing 2025

YouTube video by We Don't Have Time

Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · Nov 30

Exactly. Here’s something I wrote about Norway as a nation trying to wean itself off drugs but making its income from flogging drugs abroad. The Saudis have MBS, while Norway has JGS; similar moral codes, though journalists are probably safer in Norway.
braveneweurope.com/kevin-anders...

Kevin Anderson - Leader or Laggard? Norway, oil & gas, and climate change - Brave New Europe

Norway is predestined to lead stopping climate breakdown but is blocked by greed Kevin Anderson is professor of Energy and Climate Change at The University ofBergen (Norway), the Universities of Manch...

braveneweurope.com

Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · Nov 30

Absolutely; we’ve left it far too late to rely solely on technology. Yes tech is a prerequisite of delivering on Paris, but it is now far from sufficient. We also need urgent & profound changes to the social norms of us hi-emitters - & that means stringent & fair legislation to cut our energy use.

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anlomedad @anlomedad.bsky.social · Nov 30

2/e
So well thought through, psychologically, power-savvy, dynamically not to let it die a quick death in doom scrolling but giving the event its own future compost on which to branch out into all corners of UK.

YOU guys saw what the job of govt and BBC was, and YOU organised AND do THEIR job!
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