Tim Smedley
@timsmedley.bsky.social
That environmental writer. Editor of The New Climate (medium.com/the-new-climate). Author of The Last Drop (https://a.co/d/i5grqa9) & Clearing the Air (https://a.co/d/6AynmFZ). Climate columnist for @prospectmagazine.co.uk (https://shorturl.at/eCU5h).
And wind & solar will surpass gas generation (globally!!) any month now, having lagged by close to 20% just six years ago. This is rapid progress, people! As McKibben writes in Here Comes The Sun, “Everything is going wrong, except this one big thing.”
October 1, 2025 at 1:27 PM
And wind & solar will surpass gas generation (globally!!) any month now, having lagged by close to 20% just six years ago. This is rapid progress, people! As McKibben writes in Here Comes The Sun, “Everything is going wrong, except this one big thing.”
Couldn't fit these @ember-energy.org graphs in the piece, but check out just how rapidly solar is taking off in Africa. You love to see it:
October 1, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Couldn't fit these @ember-energy.org graphs in the piece, but check out just how rapidly solar is taking off in Africa. You love to see it:
Shall we call it a tie? I mean Jesus, I *think* I'm straight but blimey...
September 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Shall we call it a tie? I mean Jesus, I *think* I'm straight but blimey...
Considering a piece on 'why is it all dystopia?' Can barely move for dystopian, cannibals-and-bunkers post capitalist takes. Can anyone recommend any decent utopian (or, you know, just a bit positive) near-future fiction...?
July 27, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Considering a piece on 'why is it all dystopia?' Can barely move for dystopian, cannibals-and-bunkers post capitalist takes. Can anyone recommend any decent utopian (or, you know, just a bit positive) near-future fiction...?
Think my dog might be MAGA. Even in a heatwave he refuses to believe the "dogs can't regulate their own temperature" science, and suns himself regardless.
June 30, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Think my dog might be MAGA. Even in a heatwave he refuses to believe the "dogs can't regulate their own temperature" science, and suns himself regardless.
Ah Tim, just the man! I was wondering if this is increasing (warmer climate?)? Never seen a whole mature tree consumed like this until this year (local park last week, Oxfordshire).
May 20, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Ah Tim, just the man! I was wondering if this is increasing (warmer climate?)? Never seen a whole mature tree consumed like this until this year (local park last week, Oxfordshire).
The New Climate has just hit a new milestone: 20,000 followers!!! 😁🌍🥳. If you're not one of them, come join us at medium.com/the-new-clim.... (And if you are one of them, tell your friends!)
May 7, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The New Climate has just hit a new milestone: 20,000 followers!!! 😁🌍🥳. If you're not one of them, come join us at medium.com/the-new-clim.... (And if you are one of them, tell your friends!)
Musk chainsawing his own share price 😁
March 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Musk chainsawing his own share price 😁
Gruesome link made between the mysoginist murders of the Hunt family and influence of Andrew Tate revealed during sentencing.
Parents, if your sons show an admirarion of Tate, nip it in the bud now. It leads to violence against women.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5...
Parents, if your sons show an admirarion of Tate, nip it in the bud now. It leads to violence against women.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5...
March 11, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Gruesome link made between the mysoginist murders of the Hunt family and influence of Andrew Tate revealed during sentencing.
Parents, if your sons show an admirarion of Tate, nip it in the bud now. It leads to violence against women.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5...
Parents, if your sons show an admirarion of Tate, nip it in the bud now. It leads to violence against women.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5...
In case anyone else (like me) needed to Wikipedia it. Incredible parallels:
![https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Galveston_hurricane. [screenshot section reads] Preparations
On September 4, the Weather Bureau's Galveston office began receiving warnings from the Bureau's central office in Washington, D.C. that a tropical disturbance had moved northward over Cuba. At the time, they discouraged the use of terms such as "hurricane" or "tornado" to avoid panicking residents in the path of any storm event. The Weather Bureau forecasters had no way of knowing the storm's trajectory, as Weather Bureau director Willis Luther Moore implemented a policy to block telegraph reports from Cuban meteorologists at the meteorological observatory of the Colegio de Belén in Havana – considered one of the most advanced meteorological institutions in the world at the time – due to tensions in the aftermath of the Spanish–American War. Moore also changed protocol to force local Weather Bureau offices to seek authorization from the central office before issuing storm warnings.[11]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3q2cbcxzg2ybhim2txgfu7wz/bafkreig6su3s5ojfdlzf5jzjzkuhwznm55oidogjl6stusjpodlspx4bhi@jpeg)
February 6, 2025 at 12:13 PM
In case anyone else (like me) needed to Wikipedia it. Incredible parallels:
I don't check my LinkedIn often, but glad I did today. This is such a good - and grim - point made on the reporting of the #LAFires, and indeed of society in general.
![Megan Bungerorth posts on LinkedIn, 14 Jan 2025: "A note to editors on LA fire stories: don't erase working class people in your coverage.
In an otherwise solid news story about people engaging private firefighting companies to save their houses, a source recounts having to flee their Pacific Palisades home suddenly.
Their unnamed housekeeper came to tell him that there was a fire outside the front door.
"Without thinking, he and his wife scooped up their dogs and 3-year-old daughter, threw some belongings in their car and drove east, to take refuge in their second home by Lake Arrowhead."
WHAT ABOUT THE HOUSEKEEPER??!?!?! She was there too!" [Post continues but sceenshot ends there].
Link to OP: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/meganbungeroth_a-note-to-editors-on-la-fire-stories-dont-activity-7284666664497901571-sMC5/](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3q2cbcxzg2ybhim2txgfu7wz/bafkreibx6uxbfv5hkb25vjfw46ssimauoy2oow4tamog5qzphnsahedkve@jpeg)
January 15, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I don't check my LinkedIn often, but glad I did today. This is such a good - and grim - point made on the reporting of the #LAFires, and indeed of society in general.
This wasn't intentional, but the juxtaposition of the two lead stories on medium.com/the-new-climate - with the climate stripes leading into the LA fires - is bleakly fitting.
January 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM
This wasn't intentional, but the juxtaposition of the two lead stories on medium.com/the-new-climate - with the climate stripes leading into the LA fires - is bleakly fitting.
And a minor sidenote, but come on @propublica.org - let's at least add @bsky.app to the social share buttons. (Or even better, replace one of the now-compromised outlets)
January 5, 2025 at 10:54 AM
And a minor sidenote, but come on @propublica.org - let's at least add @bsky.app to the social share buttons. (Or even better, replace one of the now-compromised outlets)
We're such a weird fucking country that this is deemed an acceptable way to frame the news of a tragic death.
January 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
We're such a weird fucking country that this is deemed an acceptable way to frame the news of a tragic death.
Piss off Dip, you're a laundry sheet! I don't want to know how many sodding washes I 'achieved'...
January 1, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Piss off Dip, you're a laundry sheet! I don't want to know how many sodding washes I 'achieved'...
Happy New Year all. One of my favourite photos from this year. Dreaming of summer and better times ahead. X
December 31, 2024 at 6:51 PM
Happy New Year all. One of my favourite photos from this year. Dreaming of summer and better times ahead. X
Ok, whositgonnabe?
December 29, 2024 at 10:25 PM
Ok, whositgonnabe?
Some English Winter Solstice action today. Wet standing stones and soggy druids. Puyfect.
December 21, 2024 at 3:10 PM
Some English Winter Solstice action today. Wet standing stones and soggy druids. Puyfect.
And another #GivingTuesday tip. Both a great charity AND they even have a Bluesky tab in their socials share options 😍!
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December 3, 2024 at 3:41 PM
And another #GivingTuesday tip. Both a great charity AND they even have a Bluesky tab in their socials share options 😍!
Lend your support to entrepreneurs in low-income countries through @lendwithcare.bsky.social. New lenders get £15 free credit with this link: lendwithcare.org/referral/YJR...
Lend your support to entrepreneurs in low-income countries through @lendwithcare.bsky.social. New lenders get £15 free credit with this link: lendwithcare.org/referral/YJR...
One of the first things that came to my mind when the UN plastic treaty talks failed was this picture by @nealhaddaway.bsky.social showing the plastic removed from one seabird chick's stomach.
Today Neal wrote his personal response, too.
[gift link]
medium.com/the-new-clim...
Today Neal wrote his personal response, too.
[gift link]
medium.com/the-new-clim...
December 2, 2024 at 2:15 PM
One of the first things that came to my mind when the UN plastic treaty talks failed was this picture by @nealhaddaway.bsky.social showing the plastic removed from one seabird chick's stomach.
Today Neal wrote his personal response, too.
[gift link]
medium.com/the-new-clim...
Today Neal wrote his personal response, too.
[gift link]
medium.com/the-new-clim...
Scenes!
And the 7 year-old's verdict: "it's nice to go to a thanksgiving because then you can eat lots of food and get really full".
And the 7 year-old's verdict: "it's nice to go to a thanksgiving because then you can eat lots of food and get really full".
November 28, 2024 at 3:48 PM
Scenes!
And the 7 year-old's verdict: "it's nice to go to a thanksgiving because then you can eat lots of food and get really full".
And the 7 year-old's verdict: "it's nice to go to a thanksgiving because then you can eat lots of food and get really full".
As promised, the results of my British Thanksgiving baking! I even found proper cornmeal in the Polish shop. (Special thanks to @andreatweather.bsky.social and @drunkennorris.bsky.social for the recipes I used! Yum 😋)
November 28, 2024 at 3:48 PM
As promised, the results of my British Thanksgiving baking! I even found proper cornmeal in the Polish shop. (Special thanks to @andreatweather.bsky.social and @drunkennorris.bsky.social for the recipes I used! Yum 😋)
I'm not claiming any scientific accuracy for my own dumb set-up btw. This from an actual local ag weather station is, though. Check out that 15 min peak yesterday! 17.8mm in 15 mins is - well, I've never come across that before, in England anyway.
November 25, 2024 at 11:18 AM
I'm not claiming any scientific accuracy for my own dumb set-up btw. This from an actual local ag weather station is, though. Check out that 15 min peak yesterday! 17.8mm in 15 mins is - well, I've never come across that before, in England anyway.