Mike Morecroft
@mikemorecroft.bsky.social
Ecologist, conservationist, head of Climate Change Science at Natural England. Visiting Prof at Reading University. President John Ray Initiative. All views my own.
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New blog out today naturalengland.blog.gov.uk/2025/10/07/n... The Nature Returns Programme has been running since 2021, bringing together science and practice in one pilot programme testing nature-based solutions in a real world context. Find out more and link to our summary report.
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Climate change DEFINITELY affects hurricane:
STRENGTH: Warmer water is hurricane food
RAINFALL: Warm air holds more water vapor
SURGE: Warmer water expands, warmer ice melts, sea levels rise
PREDICTION: hotter seas mean faster intensification
STRENGTH: Warmer water is hurricane food
RAINFALL: Warm air holds more water vapor
SURGE: Warmer water expands, warmer ice melts, sea levels rise
PREDICTION: hotter seas mean faster intensification
October 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Climate change DEFINITELY affects hurricane:
STRENGTH: Warmer water is hurricane food
RAINFALL: Warm air holds more water vapor
SURGE: Warmer water expands, warmer ice melts, sea levels rise
PREDICTION: hotter seas mean faster intensification
STRENGTH: Warmer water is hurricane food
RAINFALL: Warm air holds more water vapor
SURGE: Warmer water expands, warmer ice melts, sea levels rise
PREDICTION: hotter seas mean faster intensification
Great to join #AF2025 virtually. My talk: upscaling the deployment of Nature-based Solutions needs
- Good evidence on benefits, synergies and tradeoffs
- Landscape scale planning
- Local leadership and knowledge
- trusted advisors
- partnership working
- Flexibility to adapt
- Long-term funding
- Good evidence on benefits, synergies and tradeoffs
- Landscape scale planning
- Local leadership and knowledge
- trusted advisors
- partnership working
- Flexibility to adapt
- Long-term funding
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October 13, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Great to join #AF2025 virtually. My talk: upscaling the deployment of Nature-based Solutions needs
- Good evidence on benefits, synergies and tradeoffs
- Landscape scale planning
- Local leadership and knowledge
- trusted advisors
- partnership working
- Flexibility to adapt
- Long-term funding
- Good evidence on benefits, synergies and tradeoffs
- Landscape scale planning
- Local leadership and knowledge
- trusted advisors
- partnership working
- Flexibility to adapt
- Long-term funding
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We are now on #Facebook so it will now be easier to share with friends & family what you do if you have a #LongTermExperiment registered with us!
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October 13, 2025 at 12:07 PM
We are now on #Facebook so it will now be easier to share with friends & family what you do if you have a #LongTermExperiment registered with us!
Follow us on there and share a post bit.ly/EcolConTFB
Follow us on there and share a post bit.ly/EcolConTFB
New blog out today naturalengland.blog.gov.uk/2025/10/07/n... The Nature Returns Programme has been running since 2021, bringing together science and practice in one pilot programme testing nature-based solutions in a real world context. Find out more and link to our summary report.
October 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
New blog out today naturalengland.blog.gov.uk/2025/10/07/n... The Nature Returns Programme has been running since 2021, bringing together science and practice in one pilot programme testing nature-based solutions in a real world context. Find out more and link to our summary report.
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Renewables have overtaken coal in the global electricity mix for the first time, @ember-energy.org has found
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October 7, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Renewables have overtaken coal in the global electricity mix for the first time, @ember-energy.org has found
www.linkedin.com/pulse/renewa...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/renewa...
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It is "established fact" that humans have warmed the Earth by burning fossils fuels and that our emissions have made climate extremes more frequent and intense (IPCC AR6)
Thank you for your attention to this matter!
www.carbonbrief.org/...
Thank you for your attention to this matter!
www.carbonbrief.org/...
September 23, 2025 at 7:52 PM
It is "established fact" that humans have warmed the Earth by burning fossils fuels and that our emissions have made climate extremes more frequent and intense (IPCC AR6)
Thank you for your attention to this matter!
www.carbonbrief.org/...
Thank you for your attention to this matter!
www.carbonbrief.org/...
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Global investment in renewable energy up 10% on 2024 despite Trump rollback
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Global investment in renewable energy up 10% on 2024 despite Trump rollback
Growth rate slightly lower than previous first-half years but sector still strong and resilient, experts say
www.theguardian.com
September 23, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Global investment in renewable energy up 10% on 2024 despite Trump rollback
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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In a UN speech today, President Trump said that "all of these [climate] predictions were wrong".
Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!
Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!
September 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM
In a UN speech today, President Trump said that "all of these [climate] predictions were wrong".
Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!
Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!
Visited Muckle Moss in Northumberland yesterday with Natural England colleagues. Great restoration work has restored hydrology, rewetted the bog, reinvigorated the plant community and restarted growth. Note the disappearing fence line as the peat builds up.
September 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Visited Muckle Moss in Northumberland yesterday with Natural England colleagues. Great restoration work has restored hydrology, rewetted the bog, reinvigorated the plant community and restarted growth. Note the disappearing fence line as the peat builds up.
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The time has come to value tropical fieldworkers as equal partners.
With billions spent on watching forests from space, the skills of foresters and botanists have never been more vital. In our #Nature correspondence we show why - and what needs to change.
#GEO-TREES
rdcu.be/enT5S
With billions spent on watching forests from space, the skills of foresters and botanists have never been more vital. In our #Nature correspondence we show why - and what needs to change.
#GEO-TREES
rdcu.be/enT5S
May 27, 2025 at 11:05 AM
The time has come to value tropical fieldworkers as equal partners.
With billions spent on watching forests from space, the skills of foresters and botanists have never been more vital. In our #Nature correspondence we show why - and what needs to change.
#GEO-TREES
rdcu.be/enT5S
With billions spent on watching forests from space, the skills of foresters and botanists have never been more vital. In our #Nature correspondence we show why - and what needs to change.
#GEO-TREES
rdcu.be/enT5S
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The EU has released its latest GHG emission inventory, with data up to 2023.
The good news, GHG emissions continue a downward trend, currently 37% below 1990 levels.
The bad news, a significant downward revision of land-use removals (LULUCF).
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The good news, GHG emissions continue a downward trend, currently 37% below 1990 levels.
The bad news, a significant downward revision of land-use removals (LULUCF).
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April 22, 2025 at 9:18 AM
The EU has released its latest GHG emission inventory, with data up to 2023.
The good news, GHG emissions continue a downward trend, currently 37% below 1990 levels.
The bad news, a significant downward revision of land-use removals (LULUCF).
1/
The good news, GHG emissions continue a downward trend, currently 37% below 1990 levels.
The bad news, a significant downward revision of land-use removals (LULUCF).
1/
Sad to hear of the passing of Pope Francis. Extraordinary Christian leadership on the environment and the needs of the poor and vulnerable. His encyclical Laudato si on care for the Earth is a tremendous legacy for all churches and the world. www.vatican.va/content/dam/...
www.vatican.va
April 21, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Sad to hear of the passing of Pope Francis. Extraordinary Christian leadership on the environment and the needs of the poor and vulnerable. His encyclical Laudato si on care for the Earth is a tremendous legacy for all churches and the world. www.vatican.va/content/dam/...
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Much of this cannot be done by the federal government, due to state rights: but I’m not an expert on that. So here’s @govjayinslee.bsky.social’s take on how federal EOs do and don’t impact state climate action and the clean energy revolution.
April 9, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Much of this cannot be done by the federal government, due to state rights: but I’m not an expert on that. So here’s @govjayinslee.bsky.social’s take on how federal EOs do and don’t impact state climate action and the clean energy revolution.
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It wasn’t net zero — it was fossil gas that drove up UK electricity prices.
Spot on, @pilitaclark.bsky.social! Gas sets the price most of the time.
As @dharavyas.bsky.social Energy UK, says: "It’s the volatile cost of fossil fuels and our dependence on them that have driven up energy bills."
Spot on, @pilitaclark.bsky.social! Gas sets the price most of the time.
As @dharavyas.bsky.social Energy UK, says: "It’s the volatile cost of fossil fuels and our dependence on them that have driven up energy bills."
March 19, 2025 at 10:11 AM
It wasn’t net zero — it was fossil gas that drove up UK electricity prices.
Spot on, @pilitaclark.bsky.social! Gas sets the price most of the time.
As @dharavyas.bsky.social Energy UK, says: "It’s the volatile cost of fossil fuels and our dependence on them that have driven up energy bills."
Spot on, @pilitaclark.bsky.social! Gas sets the price most of the time.
As @dharavyas.bsky.social Energy UK, says: "It’s the volatile cost of fossil fuels and our dependence on them that have driven up energy bills."
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“Inequality and environmental destruction are two faces of the same coin”
- Tony Juniper
@tonyjuniper.bsky.social
www.channel4.com/news/people-...
- Tony Juniper
@tonyjuniper.bsky.social
www.channel4.com/news/people-...
People suffering most from climate crisis unable to cope – activist
The best way to solve the environmental crisis is to tackle the problem of inequality - that's the argument made by Tony Juniper in his new book ‘Just Earth’.
www.channel4.com
March 13, 2025 at 8:57 PM
“Inequality and environmental destruction are two faces of the same coin”
- Tony Juniper
@tonyjuniper.bsky.social
www.channel4.com/news/people-...
- Tony Juniper
@tonyjuniper.bsky.social
www.channel4.com/news/people-...
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To no one's surprise, UK newspapers are full of truly dreadful - and, at times, outright bizarre - "reporting" of the Climate Change Committee's new carbon-budget advice.
For a sane and nuanced summary – with lots of charts - here's our detailed coverage...
www.carbonbrief.org/ccc-reducing...
For a sane and nuanced summary – with lots of charts - here's our detailed coverage...
www.carbonbrief.org/ccc-reducing...
CCC: Reducing emissions 87% by 2040 would help ‘cut household costs by £1,400’ - Carbon Brief
The UK should cut its emissions to 87% below 1990 levels by 2040 under its...
www.carbonbrief.org
February 26, 2025 at 9:06 AM
To no one's surprise, UK newspapers are full of truly dreadful - and, at times, outright bizarre - "reporting" of the Climate Change Committee's new carbon-budget advice.
For a sane and nuanced summary – with lots of charts - here's our detailed coverage...
www.carbonbrief.org/ccc-reducing...
For a sane and nuanced summary – with lots of charts - here's our detailed coverage...
www.carbonbrief.org/ccc-reducing...
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Science advances our economic, physical, and social and cultural wellbeing, and is key to a sustainable future. However, we live in times of great change, and the values that have driven science for the benefit of humanity are under threat. Read our statement here: royalsociety.org/news/2025/02...
Science under threat | Royal Society
The Royal Society will use its voice and the expertise of our Fellows to resist the various challenges to science.
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February 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Science advances our economic, physical, and social and cultural wellbeing, and is key to a sustainable future. However, we live in times of great change, and the values that have driven science for the benefit of humanity are under threat. Read our statement here: royalsociety.org/news/2025/02...
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“We need to reverse the collapse in biodiversity, before it threatens our own survival. Without pollinators or healthy soil micro-organisms, we won’t be able to grow enough food to feed ourselves.”
Henry Dimbleby speaking about the land use policy.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Henry Dimbleby speaking about the land use policy.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
That new land use policy that the Tories call ‘national suicide’? It’s urgent, essential – and their idea | Henry Dimbleby
No, it isn’t a leftwing plot, it’s a proposal I authored for the Conservatives in 2021. And it could be brilliantly transformative for England, says Henry Dimbleby, managing partner of Bramble Partner...
www.theguardian.com
February 15, 2025 at 6:54 AM
“We need to reverse the collapse in biodiversity, before it threatens our own survival. Without pollinators or healthy soil micro-organisms, we won’t be able to grow enough food to feed ourselves.”
Henry Dimbleby speaking about the land use policy.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Henry Dimbleby speaking about the land use policy.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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It's been a long time since Private Eye's satire has made me audibly wince, but this is so to the point if it were a knife people would demand it be banned.
February 15, 2025 at 8:16 AM
It's been a long time since Private Eye's satire has made me audibly wince, but this is so to the point if it were a knife people would demand it be banned.
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Our new paper, free to read in Bird Study, compares bird counts on solar farms and adjacent farmland. For solar farms with infrequently cut/grazed grass and bounded by hedges/trees, both farmland and woodland birds were more abundant than on adjacent arable land www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
February 14, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Our new paper, free to read in Bird Study, compares bird counts on solar farms and adjacent farmland. For solar farms with infrequently cut/grazed grass and bounded by hedges/trees, both farmland and woodland birds were more abundant than on adjacent arable land www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Thanks to the over 1000 climate colleagues pre-registering to help accelerate adaptation! At a tough time for USA researchers we extended the submission deadline to 1 March! We look forward to seeing you on line or in person! Thank u for your climate leadership! #AF2025 adaptationfutures2025.com
February 14, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Thanks to the over 1000 climate colleagues pre-registering to help accelerate adaptation! At a tough time for USA researchers we extended the submission deadline to 1 March! We look forward to seeing you on line or in person! Thank u for your climate leadership! #AF2025 adaptationfutures2025.com
Great day at #NatureReturns conference last week. How can we get the most out of nature based solutions for nature, climate and people: we’re learning by doing! More information here www.kew.org/science/natu....
February 13, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Great day at #NatureReturns conference last week. How can we get the most out of nature based solutions for nature, climate and people: we’re learning by doing! More information here www.kew.org/science/natu....
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Jumping on line and going on again about Adaptation Futures 2025 as it’s the biggest climate adaptation event- held in both virtual & in person formats because we can’t keep flying to save the planet but come and stay longer - first time NZ & Pacific has hosted this
February 9, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Jumping on line and going on again about Adaptation Futures 2025 as it’s the biggest climate adaptation event- held in both virtual & in person formats because we can’t keep flying to save the planet but come and stay longer - first time NZ & Pacific has hosted this
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@mikemorecroft.bsky.social @naturalengland.bsky.social describes the evidence that #NatureBasedSolutions can work, but sometimes fail when done in the wrong way. Building the evidence of how they can be done well to deliver for both nature and people (and climate) is essential.
February 6, 2025 at 10:15 AM
@mikemorecroft.bsky.social @naturalengland.bsky.social describes the evidence that #NatureBasedSolutions can work, but sometimes fail when done in the wrong way. Building the evidence of how they can be done well to deliver for both nature and people (and climate) is essential.