Record opposition to climate action in UK national newspapers in 2025

So-called climate action hasn’t done anything measurable that we know of, so what is the concern here? We’re told ‘UK newspapers criticised climate change policies but did not deny its existence in 2025’, but that doesn’t say anything about supposed causes. If the tide is going out on media climate propaganda and unsupported assertions of human causation, so be it. Carbon Brief claims mitigation is a contentious issue, but the real issue is the pretence that weather can be induced to do something, or not do it.
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The UK’s national press published more articles in 2025 opposing action to mitigate climate change than supporting it for the first time since analysis began.

Nearly 100 UK newspaper editorials opposed an increase in climate action, more than double the number that supported it, according to analysis shared with Press Gazette by climate science website Carbon Brief.

This marks the first time newspaper editorials opposing climate action have overtaken those supporting it in the 15 years since Carbon Brief began its analysis, and was also the highest recorded level of anti-action articles.

Some 166 editorials – articles considered to represent the newspaper’s formal “voice” – that discussed potential action to mitigate the impact of human-caused climate change were analysed in 2025.

Of the nine newspapers Carbon Brief analysed, it classified five of the newspapers as right-leaning (The Sun, the Daily Mail, the Daily Telegraph, The Times and the Daily Express and their Sunday counterparts), three as left-leaning (The Guardian, The Observer and The Independent) and one as centrist (the Financial Times).

None of the editorials opposing climate action in 2025 denied the existence of climate change, similar to 2024’s findings, but voiced “response scepticism” meaning they criticised policies that address climate change.

The results from 2025 mirror the shift seen in the UK press across the last few years after a record number of UK newspaper editorials opposed climate action more than in any other year in both 2023 and 2024).

The new analysis found that 2025 marked the fourth record-breaking year in a row for criticism of climate action in newspaper editorials.

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