Dominic Lavelle
@dominiclavelle.bsky.social
I help companies plan for - and deliver - Net Zero
I also volunteer for the Carbon Accounting Alliance
Based in Worcester & London.
Personal account. Opinions mine and mine alone.
I also volunteer for the Carbon Accounting Alliance
Based in Worcester & London.
Personal account. Opinions mine and mine alone.
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Some thoughts on why getting to Net Zero is easier than most people think:
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“Even for an intermediate emissions scenario [which is our current emissions pathway] the probability of AMOC shutdown is way above 50%”
(AMOC shut-down means Europe and parts of South-East Asia become uninhabitable, by the way.)
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(AMOC shut-down means Europe and parts of South-East Asia become uninhabitable, by the way.)
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Is the Atlantic Ocean circulation close to tipping?
Hear the latest science as I presented it last month at the ATLAS25 event in Helsinki.
Let me know if anything is unclear, or if you see good reasons why your government shouldn't immediately act on this. 🌊
youtu.be/ULJXqOZuY-8
Hear the latest science as I presented it last month at the ATLAS25 event in Helsinki.
Let me know if anything is unclear, or if you see good reasons why your government shouldn't immediately act on this. 🌊
youtu.be/ULJXqOZuY-8
Is the Atlantic Ocean circulation close to tipping?
YouTube video by Earth System Analysis - Potsdam Institute
youtu.be
November 16, 2025 at 7:56 PM
“Even for an intermediate emissions scenario [which is our current emissions pathway] the probability of AMOC shutdown is way above 50%”
(AMOC shut-down means Europe and parts of South-East Asia become uninhabitable, by the way.)
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(AMOC shut-down means Europe and parts of South-East Asia become uninhabitable, by the way.)
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A good day to listen to our proud, joyous history of the BBC: One of the greatest British inventions of the 20th Century. An institution which, even at its worst, is far better than its detractors podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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November 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
A good day to listen to our proud, joyous history of the BBC: One of the greatest British inventions of the 20th Century. An institution which, even at its worst, is far better than its detractors podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Awesome 🧵...
Time for 2025 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread. If you like these, you might like the second edition of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon. A 30% discount code WSQ0437 is valid on publisher website until end of November 2025.
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Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon
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October 21, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Awesome 🧵...
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I don't fully agree with this analysis. It's more nuanced than the article makes out.
Offsets are often held to a higher standard than other form of decarbonisation.
For example:
"projects with leakage, such as protecting part of a forest but effectively pushing loggers elsewhere"
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Offsets are often held to a higher standard than other form of decarbonisation.
For example:
"projects with leakage, such as protecting part of a forest but effectively pushing loggers elsewhere"
1/x
October 6, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I don't fully agree with this analysis. It's more nuanced than the article makes out.
Offsets are often held to a higher standard than other form of decarbonisation.
For example:
"projects with leakage, such as protecting part of a forest but effectively pushing loggers elsewhere"
1/x
Offsets are often held to a higher standard than other form of decarbonisation.
For example:
"projects with leakage, such as protecting part of a forest but effectively pushing loggers elsewhere"
1/x
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Just listened to BBC #moralmaze on Net Zero.
The programme was awful.
No one understood the clear solutions that will enable us to decarbonise whilst maintaining a high quality of life.
The talking points were just a type of climate denialism.
As bad as it gets really.
The programme was awful.
No one understood the clear solutions that will enable us to decarbonise whilst maintaining a high quality of life.
The talking points were just a type of climate denialism.
As bad as it gets really.
September 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Just listened to BBC #moralmaze on Net Zero.
The programme was awful.
No one understood the clear solutions that will enable us to decarbonise whilst maintaining a high quality of life.
The talking points were just a type of climate denialism.
As bad as it gets really.
The programme was awful.
No one understood the clear solutions that will enable us to decarbonise whilst maintaining a high quality of life.
The talking points were just a type of climate denialism.
As bad as it gets really.
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It's yelling into the void but something tell me it just needs to kept being said: if you are still posting, RTing, or lurking on X, you are helping keep users there and you are helping this guy pull in advertising revenue.
You are a volunteer worker for a slobbering, drug-addled white supremacist
You are a volunteer worker for a slobbering, drug-addled white supremacist
Elon Musk calls for dissolution of parliament at far-right rally in London
US-based tech boss was addressing the ‘unite the kingdom’ protest organised by Tommy Robinson via video link
www.theguardian.com
September 14, 2025 at 10:13 AM
It's yelling into the void but something tell me it just needs to kept being said: if you are still posting, RTing, or lurking on X, you are helping keep users there and you are helping this guy pull in advertising revenue.
You are a volunteer worker for a slobbering, drug-addled white supremacist
You are a volunteer worker for a slobbering, drug-addled white supremacist
Just listened to BBC #moralmaze on Net Zero.
The programme was awful.
No one understood the clear solutions that will enable us to decarbonise whilst maintaining a high quality of life.
The talking points were just a type of climate denialism.
As bad as it gets really.
The programme was awful.
No one understood the clear solutions that will enable us to decarbonise whilst maintaining a high quality of life.
The talking points were just a type of climate denialism.
As bad as it gets really.
September 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Just listened to BBC #moralmaze on Net Zero.
The programme was awful.
No one understood the clear solutions that will enable us to decarbonise whilst maintaining a high quality of life.
The talking points were just a type of climate denialism.
As bad as it gets really.
The programme was awful.
No one understood the clear solutions that will enable us to decarbonise whilst maintaining a high quality of life.
The talking points were just a type of climate denialism.
As bad as it gets really.
I've had a go at making this image slightly more to scale given billionnaires increasingly control the media landscape.
(In reality the cookies would be the size of an actual mountain!.... )
(In reality the cookies would be the size of an actual mountain!.... )
September 8, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I've had a go at making this image slightly more to scale given billionnaires increasingly control the media landscape.
(In reality the cookies would be the size of an actual mountain!.... )
(In reality the cookies would be the size of an actual mountain!.... )
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Here you go, enjoy the back catalogue:
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September 7, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Here you go, enjoy the back catalogue:
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WATCH & SHARE: This is very good. A prominent youtuber is actually giddy (but also very thorough in covering the joys, advantages, issues and challenges) about how trying biking for transportation in London has changed his life.
Easy to watch & more convincing probably than 99% of public campaigns.
Easy to watch & more convincing probably than 99% of public campaigns.
I Cycled 2500km in London — Here's How It Changed My Life
YouTube video by Evan Edinger
youtu.be
August 24, 2025 at 5:31 PM
WATCH & SHARE: This is very good. A prominent youtuber is actually giddy (but also very thorough in covering the joys, advantages, issues and challenges) about how trying biking for transportation in London has changed his life.
Easy to watch & more convincing probably than 99% of public campaigns.
Easy to watch & more convincing probably than 99% of public campaigns.
Wonderful graphics!
Now also add in the extraction fuel and shipping fuel used in mining and transport of fossil fuels... the numbers look even worse for legacy fuels ;)
Now also add in the extraction fuel and shipping fuel used in mining and transport of fossil fuels... the numbers look even worse for legacy fuels ;)
August 25, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Wonderful graphics!
Now also add in the extraction fuel and shipping fuel used in mining and transport of fossil fuels... the numbers look even worse for legacy fuels ;)
Now also add in the extraction fuel and shipping fuel used in mining and transport of fossil fuels... the numbers look even worse for legacy fuels ;)
"Safe infrastructure for everyone. Children just want to go to school safely" ✊
Three people hurt.
One week.
Enough is enough, and the people of Edinburgh came out in agreement on Friday!
youtu.be/yPUMatRhX1U
One week.
Enough is enough, and the people of Edinburgh came out in agreement on Friday!
youtu.be/yPUMatRhX1U
Edinburgh Critical Mass Emergency Ride August 2025
YouTube video by Critical Mass Edinburgh
youtu.be
August 25, 2025 at 8:38 AM
"Safe infrastructure for everyone. Children just want to go to school safely" ✊
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can you imagine trying to convince the average skepti-dude in the year 2010 that this is what summer europe will look like in 2025
August 15, 2025 at 7:25 AM
can you imagine trying to convince the average skepti-dude in the year 2010 that this is what summer europe will look like in 2025
I thought his was a single post from @thegodpodcast.com for a minute and it looked pretty cool...
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@ralphbakshi.bsky.social
July 6, 2025 at 9:25 AM
I thought his was a single post from @thegodpodcast.com for a minute and it looked pretty cool...
@ralphbakshi.bsky.social
@ralphbakshi.bsky.social
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To all my dear friends on Blue Sky.....
June 26, 2025 at 3:56 AM
To all my dear friends on Blue Sky.....
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Interesting analogy
"Dr J Gergis, one of the lead authors on the latest IPCC report, prefers to represent climate change as a cancer –a disease that takes hold and grows and metastasises until the day when it is no longer curable and becomes terminal.You could also think of that as a tipping point"
"Dr J Gergis, one of the lead authors on the latest IPCC report, prefers to represent climate change as a cancer –a disease that takes hold and grows and metastasises until the day when it is no longer curable and becomes terminal.You could also think of that as a tipping point"
"The idea that our little spaceship, our planet, is under the risk of essentially crashing & we’re still continuing business as usual is mindblowing."
More nuclear weapons will do nothing to protect us from the biggest security risk we face.
#ClimateCrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
More nuclear weapons will do nothing to protect us from the biggest security risk we face.
#ClimateCrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘This is a fight for life’: climate expert on tipping points, doomerism and using wealth as a shield
Economic assumptions about risks of the climate crisis are no longer relevant, says the communications expert Genevieve Guenther
www.theguardian.com
June 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Interesting analogy
"Dr J Gergis, one of the lead authors on the latest IPCC report, prefers to represent climate change as a cancer –a disease that takes hold and grows and metastasises until the day when it is no longer curable and becomes terminal.You could also think of that as a tipping point"
"Dr J Gergis, one of the lead authors on the latest IPCC report, prefers to represent climate change as a cancer –a disease that takes hold and grows and metastasises until the day when it is no longer curable and becomes terminal.You could also think of that as a tipping point"
Interesting analogy
"Dr J Gergis, one of the lead authors on the latest IPCC report, prefers to represent climate change as a cancer –a disease that takes hold and grows and metastasises until the day when it is no longer curable and becomes terminal.You could also think of that as a tipping point"
"Dr J Gergis, one of the lead authors on the latest IPCC report, prefers to represent climate change as a cancer –a disease that takes hold and grows and metastasises until the day when it is no longer curable and becomes terminal.You could also think of that as a tipping point"
"The idea that our little spaceship, our planet, is under the risk of essentially crashing & we’re still continuing business as usual is mindblowing."
More nuclear weapons will do nothing to protect us from the biggest security risk we face.
#ClimateCrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
More nuclear weapons will do nothing to protect us from the biggest security risk we face.
#ClimateCrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘This is a fight for life’: climate expert on tipping points, doomerism and using wealth as a shield
Economic assumptions about risks of the climate crisis are no longer relevant, says the communications expert Genevieve Guenther
www.theguardian.com
June 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Interesting analogy
"Dr J Gergis, one of the lead authors on the latest IPCC report, prefers to represent climate change as a cancer –a disease that takes hold and grows and metastasises until the day when it is no longer curable and becomes terminal.You could also think of that as a tipping point"
"Dr J Gergis, one of the lead authors on the latest IPCC report, prefers to represent climate change as a cancer –a disease that takes hold and grows and metastasises until the day when it is no longer curable and becomes terminal.You could also think of that as a tipping point"
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"Build as much clean energy as possible as fast as possible" should be our No. 1 national priority in the coming decade. All our national resources should be bent to the task. The president should talk about it every week in a national address. It should be the moon shot X100.
In order to keep global warming below 1.5C or 2C, we need to move industrial activity to clean energy. This will MORE THAN DOUBLE our global need for electricity.
We are going to need a LOT more wind, solar, geothermal, and other clean electricity than most people are expecting.
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We are going to need a LOT more wind, solar, geothermal, and other clean electricity than most people are expecting.
⚡🧵
June 19, 2025 at 10:01 PM
"Build as much clean energy as possible as fast as possible" should be our No. 1 national priority in the coming decade. All our national resources should be bent to the task. The president should talk about it every week in a national address. It should be the moon shot X100.
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NEW: Car bonnets are becoming a half-centimetre higher every year, driving road safety fears.
This #carspreading trend where supersized SUVs crowd out space in towns and cities is also leading to cars that are more dangerous in a crash.
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This #carspreading trend where supersized SUVs crowd out space in towns and cities is also leading to cars that are more dangerous in a crash.
🧵
June 12, 2025 at 6:01 AM
NEW: Car bonnets are becoming a half-centimetre higher every year, driving road safety fears.
This #carspreading trend where supersized SUVs crowd out space in towns and cities is also leading to cars that are more dangerous in a crash.
🧵
This #carspreading trend where supersized SUVs crowd out space in towns and cities is also leading to cars that are more dangerous in a crash.
🧵
I would suggest it's now clear we should be doubling down on the electrification of buses ⚡️⚡️⚡️
Cities have spent millions on hydrogen buses so plagued with faults that many vehicles have been left trapped in depots for months at a time.
Many of these trials have hit the same stumbling blocks, including high costs and a lack of reliable hydrogen supply.
inews.co.uk/news/million...
Many of these trials have hit the same stumbling blocks, including high costs and a lack of reliable hydrogen supply.
inews.co.uk/news/million...
Millions spent on hydrogen buses left stuck in depots due to lack of fuel
Liverpool and Aberdeen are amongst the cities that have seen dozens of vehicles off the road since last summer due to fueling problems and high maintenance costs
inews.co.uk
May 18, 2025 at 12:01 PM
I would suggest it's now clear we should be doubling down on the electrification of buses ⚡️⚡️⚡️
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Some thoughts on why getting to Net Zero is easier than most people think:
May 14, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Some thoughts on why getting to Net Zero is easier than most people think:
VR experiences:
An underrated tool for climate change engagement...
An underrated tool for climate change engagement...
Can immersive media spark climate conversations? Yes! New research shows VR, video, and articles (in that order) can stimulate climate convos for up to two weeks after exposure.
Authors find these experiences offer natural entry points, sparking immediate conversations + sustaining them over time.
Authors find these experiences offer natural entry points, sparking immediate conversations + sustaining them over time.
Let’s talk about climate change: How immersive media experiences stimulate climate conversations.
Since climate conversations are important for mitigating climate change, but few people talk about it, we investigated whether and how immersive media…
www.sciencedirect.com
May 15, 2025 at 7:06 PM
VR experiences:
An underrated tool for climate change engagement...
An underrated tool for climate change engagement...
Some thoughts on why getting to Net Zero is easier than most people think:
May 14, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Some thoughts on why getting to Net Zero is easier than most people think: