Noel Longhurst
@noellonghurst.bsky.social
Teaching and research on energy, system change, critical climate education and (un)sustainable futures.
Associate Professor at the University of East Anglia in the School of Environmental Sciences.
Views are mine, not employer.
Associate Professor at the University of East Anglia in the School of Environmental Sciences.
Views are mine, not employer.
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Fires & Fascism showing at:
Norwich, Cinema City
Wed 19 Nov, 6pm
www.picturehouses.com/movie-detail...
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@norwichgreenparty.bsky.social
@norfolknats.bsky.social
@noellonghurst.bsky.social
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Norwich, Cinema City
Wed 19 Nov, 6pm
www.picturehouses.com/movie-detail...
@rupertread.bsky.social
@helenb92.bsky.social
@norwichgreenparty.bsky.social
@norfolknats.bsky.social
@noellonghurst.bsky.social
@norwichfoe.bsky.social
@timosbornclim.bsky.social
Green Screen: Fires and Fascism + Director Q&A | Showtimes and Tickets
Green Screen Presents... Fires & Fascism followed by Q&A with Director Dr Pete Knapp
Norwich - Wednesday 19th Nov
Brighton - Tuesday 9th Dec
Fires and Fascism shows the cau...
www.picturehouses.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Fires & Fascism showing at:
Norwich, Cinema City
Wed 19 Nov, 6pm
www.picturehouses.com/movie-detail...
@rupertread.bsky.social
@helenb92.bsky.social
@norwichgreenparty.bsky.social
@norfolknats.bsky.social
@noellonghurst.bsky.social
@norwichfoe.bsky.social
@timosbornclim.bsky.social
Norwich, Cinema City
Wed 19 Nov, 6pm
www.picturehouses.com/movie-detail...
@rupertread.bsky.social
@helenb92.bsky.social
@norwichgreenparty.bsky.social
@norfolknats.bsky.social
@noellonghurst.bsky.social
@norwichfoe.bsky.social
@timosbornclim.bsky.social
This looks great!
Thanks to @reaktionbooks.bsky.social for making my history of protest in England's public spaces into a beautiful, well produced book with a fab cover.
Buy it here reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contest...
Buy it here reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contest...
October 30, 2025 at 10:41 AM
This looks great!
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For only the second time in recorded history, an Atlantic season has produced three Category 5 hurricanes... the previous year was 2005. This puts 2025 in an elite class of hurricane seasons. It also means that nearly 7% of all known Category 5 hurricanes have occurred just in this year.
#Melissa
#Melissa
Melissa becomes third Category 5 hurricane of the extraordinary 2025 season
Updates and summaries on tropical Atlantic activity... including easterly waves, tropical storms, subtropical storms, and hurricanes.
bmcnoldy.blogspot.com
October 27, 2025 at 11:21 AM
For only the second time in recorded history, an Atlantic season has produced three Category 5 hurricanes... the previous year was 2005. This puts 2025 in an elite class of hurricane seasons. It also means that nearly 7% of all known Category 5 hurricanes have occurred just in this year.
#Melissa
#Melissa
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Its out! Our new Index on International Media Freedom Support (IMFS) - which ranks 30 countries on how actively they support #mediafreedom beyond their borders through diplomatic, funding and safety initiatives.
Key findings here: jdem.org/the-imfs-ind...
Full report here: jdem.org/wp-content/u...
Key findings here: jdem.org/the-imfs-ind...
Full report here: jdem.org/wp-content/u...
October 24, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Its out! Our new Index on International Media Freedom Support (IMFS) - which ranks 30 countries on how actively they support #mediafreedom beyond their borders through diplomatic, funding and safety initiatives.
Key findings here: jdem.org/the-imfs-ind...
Full report here: jdem.org/wp-content/u...
Key findings here: jdem.org/the-imfs-ind...
Full report here: jdem.org/wp-content/u...
Great piece by Kitty Cresswell Riol on the feminst power of the bicycle. If you are in Norwich then join us tomorrow (Weds 22nd Oct) on the Norwich Glow Ride at 630pm tomorrow outside City Hall.
Ahead of tomorrow's @cyclinguk.bsky.social "glow rides" calling for safer streets for women, we look at the role the bicycle has played in liberating women.
www.norwichcyclingcampaign.org/fear-freedom...
www.norwichcyclingcampaign.org/fear-freedom...
Fear, freedom and the feminist power of the bicycle
The bicycle has been a powerful tool for women’s emancipation from the early days and can still be a driving force for freedom – for everyone, but only if we provide the right environme…
www.norwichcyclingcampaign.org
October 21, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Great piece by Kitty Cresswell Riol on the feminst power of the bicycle. If you are in Norwich then join us tomorrow (Weds 22nd Oct) on the Norwich Glow Ride at 630pm tomorrow outside City Hall.
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10 days left to apply for this course!
Many amazing scholars will contribute to this course, including @untamed.bsky.social, @dudleymarianna.bsky.social, Abigail Harrison Moore, Alice Owen, and @andersriel.bsky.social!
#envhist #energyhistory #envhum
Many amazing scholars will contribute to this course, including @untamed.bsky.social, @dudleymarianna.bsky.social, Abigail Harrison Moore, Alice Owen, and @andersriel.bsky.social!
#envhist #energyhistory #envhum
I am really excited to announce the call for the PhD Course in Energy Humanities!
Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December.
Applications are welcome until 24 October.
#envhum #envhist #energyhistory
Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December.
Applications are welcome until 24 October.
#envhum #envhist #energyhistory
October 15, 2025 at 6:44 AM
10 days left to apply for this course!
Many amazing scholars will contribute to this course, including @untamed.bsky.social, @dudleymarianna.bsky.social, Abigail Harrison Moore, Alice Owen, and @andersriel.bsky.social!
#envhist #energyhistory #envhum
Many amazing scholars will contribute to this course, including @untamed.bsky.social, @dudleymarianna.bsky.social, Abigail Harrison Moore, Alice Owen, and @andersriel.bsky.social!
#envhist #energyhistory #envhum
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It's finally here! 100+ scholars, global scope, practical insights. “Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment” shows how organized interests stall policy—and how governance can respond.
Open access available now! Or order for paperback and hardcover. cssn.org/wp-content/u...
Open access available now! Or order for paperback and hardcover. cssn.org/wp-content/u...
October 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
It's finally here! 100+ scholars, global scope, practical insights. “Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment” shows how organized interests stall policy—and how governance can respond.
Open access available now! Or order for paperback and hardcover. cssn.org/wp-content/u...
Open access available now! Or order for paperback and hardcover. cssn.org/wp-content/u...
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It's the 'Scientists Responsibility Summit' today.
Here's a live thread with some take aways from each talk... 🧵
Here's a live thread with some take aways from each talk... 🧵
Tomorrow: Scientists Responsibility Summit!
What is the appropriate stance of scientists in the polycrisis? Let's develop practical paths for a transformative role of academia.
🏛️Attend in-person at HU Berlin: blogs.fu-berlin.de/scientistsre...
💻 Streaming (Webex): tinyurl.com/nh5kpt4e
What is the appropriate stance of scientists in the polycrisis? Let's develop practical paths for a transformative role of academia.
🏛️Attend in-person at HU Berlin: blogs.fu-berlin.de/scientistsre...
💻 Streaming (Webex): tinyurl.com/nh5kpt4e
October 11, 2025 at 8:56 AM
It's the 'Scientists Responsibility Summit' today.
Here's a live thread with some take aways from each talk... 🧵
Here's a live thread with some take aways from each talk... 🧵
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I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
October 7, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
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EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN CHINA Almost 40C
Up to at 39.3C Jiannang,39.0 Jiangde,38.7 Quzhou,38.6 Chagshan,38.5 Jiangshan and Shangrao,48.4 Yunhe,38.3 Lanzi and Yushan,38.2 Nanfeng etc
83 new records of October highest temperature (36 Maxes+47 Mins)
Almost 1000 in East Asia already!
Up to at 39.3C Jiannang,39.0 Jiangde,38.7 Quzhou,38.6 Chagshan,38.5 Jiangshan and Shangrao,48.4 Yunhe,38.3 Lanzi and Yushan,38.2 Nanfeng etc
83 new records of October highest temperature (36 Maxes+47 Mins)
Almost 1000 in East Asia already!
October 6, 2025 at 1:19 PM
EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN CHINA Almost 40C
Up to at 39.3C Jiannang,39.0 Jiangde,38.7 Quzhou,38.6 Chagshan,38.5 Jiangshan and Shangrao,48.4 Yunhe,38.3 Lanzi and Yushan,38.2 Nanfeng etc
83 new records of October highest temperature (36 Maxes+47 Mins)
Almost 1000 in East Asia already!
Up to at 39.3C Jiannang,39.0 Jiangde,38.7 Quzhou,38.6 Chagshan,38.5 Jiangshan and Shangrao,48.4 Yunhe,38.3 Lanzi and Yushan,38.2 Nanfeng etc
83 new records of October highest temperature (36 Maxes+47 Mins)
Almost 1000 in East Asia already!
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As the government panics about bond market gyrations, its always useful to understand how the UK government actually finances itself: by creating new money, just like a bank.
New paper with @AskerVoldsgaard, Neil Wilson, Andrew Berkeley and Richard Tye.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
New paper with @AskerVoldsgaard, Neil Wilson, Andrew Berkeley and Richard Tye.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Self-Financing State: An Institutional Analysis of Government Expenditure, Revenue Collection and Debt Issuance Operations in the United Kingdom
This article provides the first detailed institutional analysis of the UK government’s expenditure, revenue collection, and debt issuance processes. We show that public expenditure is always financ...
www.tandfonline.com
September 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
As the government panics about bond market gyrations, its always useful to understand how the UK government actually finances itself: by creating new money, just like a bank.
New paper with @AskerVoldsgaard, Neil Wilson, Andrew Berkeley and Richard Tye.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
New paper with @AskerVoldsgaard, Neil Wilson, Andrew Berkeley and Richard Tye.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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>40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study
Petition for UK academics asking govt to facilitate a biometric visa deferral and open a route of safe passage
Sign & share ⏬️
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Petition for UK academics asking govt to facilitate a biometric visa deferral and open a route of safe passage
Sign & share ⏬️
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities
More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, ca...
docs.google.com
July 29, 2025 at 7:39 AM
>40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study
Petition for UK academics asking govt to facilitate a biometric visa deferral and open a route of safe passage
Sign & share ⏬️
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Petition for UK academics asking govt to facilitate a biometric visa deferral and open a route of safe passage
Sign & share ⏬️
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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BREAKING: Scientists are occupying the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) in London. They are demanding capital requirements for fossil fuels to urgently address climate breakdown.
🧵1/10
🧵1/10
July 23, 2025 at 8:38 AM
BREAKING: Scientists are occupying the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) in London. They are demanding capital requirements for fossil fuels to urgently address climate breakdown.
🧵1/10
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🧵 THREAD: Why the Cato Institute’s new paper on “misinformation panic” is dangerously wrong, and why it completely misunderstands the real crisis we face.
www.cato.org/policy-analy...
www.cato.org/policy-analy...
The Misleading Panic over Misinformation
People can’t agree on how to define misinformation and its related terms, making regulation nearly impossible. Instead, free expression serves as a better tool for discovering truth.
www.cato.org
June 27, 2025 at 6:50 AM
🧵 THREAD: Why the Cato Institute’s new paper on “misinformation panic” is dangerously wrong, and why it completely misunderstands the real crisis we face.
www.cato.org/policy-analy...
www.cato.org/policy-analy...
Great 'streamgraph' on the rise, fall and rise of nuclear in the UK.
The rise, fall and rise of UK nuclear power
The green light given to Sizewell C and other small modular reactors somewhat revives the UK’s nuclear capacity after decades of decline, albeit at a lower peak than the 1990s
Streamgraph for @carbonbrief.org #dataviz
www.carbonbrief.org/chart-the-ri...
The green light given to Sizewell C and other small modular reactors somewhat revives the UK’s nuclear capacity after decades of decline, albeit at a lower peak than the 1990s
Streamgraph for @carbonbrief.org #dataviz
www.carbonbrief.org/chart-the-ri...
June 20, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Great 'streamgraph' on the rise, fall and rise of nuclear in the UK.
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In the past year we've had a series of papers with results that've shocked #climate scientists - the globe is heating #FasterThanExpected & we don't fully know why
The public discourse is not keeping up.
Here's a series of 5 new studies that climate hawks & journos need to have on their radar 🧵
The public discourse is not keeping up.
Here's a series of 5 new studies that climate hawks & journos need to have on their radar 🧵
June 19, 2025 at 11:38 AM
In the past year we've had a series of papers with results that've shocked #climate scientists - the globe is heating #FasterThanExpected & we don't fully know why
The public discourse is not keeping up.
Here's a series of 5 new studies that climate hawks & journos need to have on their radar 🧵
The public discourse is not keeping up.
Here's a series of 5 new studies that climate hawks & journos need to have on their radar 🧵
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Absolute must-read here from @amywestervelt.bsky.social
“The question is not: who is the Joe Rogan of the left? But rather … who is the Rupert Murdoch of the left?
“The question is not: who is the Joe Rogan of the left? But rather … who is the Rupert Murdoch of the left?
Forget the "Joe Rogan of the Left," Where's the Rupert Murdoch?
Something can be repeated over and over, a story told ten different ways, and then one particular frame or graphic or turn of phrase makes it take hold. There are plenty of people who claim to know ex...
drilled.ghost.io
May 30, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Absolute must-read here from @amywestervelt.bsky.social
“The question is not: who is the Joe Rogan of the left? But rather … who is the Rupert Murdoch of the left?
“The question is not: who is the Joe Rogan of the left? But rather … who is the Rupert Murdoch of the left?
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Thrilled to share my first PhD paper, Towards Modelling Post-Growth Climate Futures, out today in Environmental Research Letters. Grateful to my brilliant co-authors and supervisors @femkenijsse.bsky.social, Paul Brockway & Karen Bickerstaff.
tinyurl.com/3xatxfkh
tinyurl.com/3xatxfkh
Towards modelling post-growth climate futures: a review of current modelling practices and next steps - IOPscienceSearch
Towards modelling post-growth climate futures: a review of current modelling practices and next steps, Edwards, Alex, Brockway, Paul E, Bickerstaff, Karen, Nijsse, Femke J M M
tinyurl.com
April 24, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Thrilled to share my first PhD paper, Towards Modelling Post-Growth Climate Futures, out today in Environmental Research Letters. Grateful to my brilliant co-authors and supervisors @femkenijsse.bsky.social, Paul Brockway & Karen Bickerstaff.
tinyurl.com/3xatxfkh
tinyurl.com/3xatxfkh
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"Scientists and scientific institutions must defend academic freedom, and that must include the right for scientists to participate in legitimate peaceful protest"
#StandUpForScience
#ScienceNotSilence
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
#StandUpForScience
#ScienceNotSilence
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Actions speak louder than words: the case for responsible scientific activism in an era of planetary emergency | Royal Society Open Science
The world's understanding of the climate and ecological crises rests on science. However,
scientists' conventional methods of engagement, such as producing ever more data and
findings, writing papers ...
royalsocietypublishing.org
April 13, 2025 at 9:29 PM
"Scientists and scientific institutions must defend academic freedom, and that must include the right for scientists to participate in legitimate peaceful protest"
#StandUpForScience
#ScienceNotSilence
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
#StandUpForScience
#ScienceNotSilence
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
With the arrival of ‘Liberation Day’ I thought it might be useful to share a short thread of resources that have helped me to make sense of the MAGA / Trump / Musk project. The first is this piece in @theatlantic.com by Jonathan Rauch (1/8).
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
One Word Describes Trump
A century ago, a German sociologist explained precisely how the president thinks about the world.
www.theatlantic.com
April 1, 2025 at 4:39 PM
With the arrival of ‘Liberation Day’ I thought it might be useful to share a short thread of resources that have helped me to make sense of the MAGA / Trump / Musk project. The first is this piece in @theatlantic.com by Jonathan Rauch (1/8).
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Really good piece on the complexity of the worklessness problem in Britain
“spending on incapacity and disability benefits is forecast to grow to more than £100bn a year. Britain will soon be spending twice as much on incapacity benefits as it spends on secondary schools.”
Why Britain isn’t working
How the benefits system became a danger to the economy and a battleground for Labour.
buff.ly
March 13, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Really good piece on the complexity of the worklessness problem in Britain
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I'm with Danya outlining why she moved to Ghost, and I launched my newsletter Meditationsinanemergency.com with Ghost, because I knew Substack had a lot of ethical issues--bullshit rhetoric to justify platforming hate speech & racism plus the backing of some of the worst people in Silicon Valley.
I want to talk about my move from Substack to Ghost for a second, and what it's been like working with a nonprofit tech company that actually lives its values.
Especially if you're a writer still on Subtack, please read. 1/x
First of all, about the org: They are a nonprofit, I just met employee +
Especially if you're a writer still on Subtack, please read. 1/x
First of all, about the org: They are a nonprofit, I just met employee +
Ghost: Independent technology for modern publishing
Beautiful, modern publishing with newsletters and premium subscriptions built-in. Used by Sky, 404Media, Lever News, Tangle, The Browser, and thousands more.
ghost.org
March 8, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I'm with Danya outlining why she moved to Ghost, and I launched my newsletter Meditationsinanemergency.com with Ghost, because I knew Substack had a lot of ethical issues--bullshit rhetoric to justify platforming hate speech & racism plus the backing of some of the worst people in Silicon Valley.
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2024 was the hottest year on record 📈
TV news coverage of climate change decreased by 25% 📉
#EndClimateSilence
TV news coverage of climate change decreased by 25% 📉
#EndClimateSilence
March 7, 2025 at 11:43 AM
2024 was the hottest year on record 📈
TV news coverage of climate change decreased by 25% 📉
#EndClimateSilence
TV news coverage of climate change decreased by 25% 📉
#EndClimateSilence
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Ontario is issuing a 25% export tax on electricity to the US, WSJ is reporting, in response to President Tariff there in D.C.
This impacts millions in Minnesota, Michigan and New York, prices in New England are doubling
Definitely making america great again!
This impacts millions in Minnesota, Michigan and New York, prices in New England are doubling
Definitely making america great again!
The #tradewar is on. Real-time electricity prices doubled few minutes after midnight EST in New England. 🔌💡
March 4, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Ontario is issuing a 25% export tax on electricity to the US, WSJ is reporting, in response to President Tariff there in D.C.
This impacts millions in Minnesota, Michigan and New York, prices in New England are doubling
Definitely making america great again!
This impacts millions in Minnesota, Michigan and New York, prices in New England are doubling
Definitely making america great again!