Simon Evans

@DrSimEvans · London · joined 16 Mar 2012

Posts/data about climate+energy Press Gazette energy & envt journo of yr 2022 Deputy Ed, Senior Policy Ed @CarbonBrief DMs open simon.evans@carbonbrief.org

87 121Followers

3 920Following

73 277Posts total

431.2KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

8 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. reaches fewer people than peers, but engages them much harder.

Median views3 690this account1 948median for 10K–100K

Reach, %4.23%this account5.91%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %2.58%this account1.63%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	3 690	1 948	1.89×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	4.23%	5.91%	0.72×
Engagement rate	2.58%	1.63%	1.58×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

23.9K28 Feb

347.8K5 Mar

6.8K

2.7K

28.7K17 Jul

4.3K12 Aug

3.1K13 Aug

4.8K14 Aug

6.7K18 Aug

Last 13 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.20%28 Feb

0.59%5 Mar

2.14%

10.73%

5.35%

3.91%17 Jul

2.01%12 Aug

1.87%13 Aug

2.46%14 Aug

4.13%18 Aug

2.25%

5.19%

2.70%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.63%.

What the audience does

Likes69.4%3 115 in total

Reposts18.1%811 in total

Replies7.1%318 in total

Quotes2.0%91 in total

Bookmarks3.4%153 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

@DrSimEvans Why is the Met Office compiling death numbers, and not the NHS? How did the NHS compile the Covid call numbers, which in any case was a completely different event? Has there ever been a farmer who was satisfied with a harvest? Most fires were caused by humans, especia 74 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 18 Aug 2026 @DrSimEvans Tice is a sociopath, huddling in his fossil-fuel-funded climate denier bubble. He thinks he’s ‘smart’, that there is an ‘audience’ for stupidity. He’s right there’s an audience, shrinking daily as reality penetrates brains via eyes seeing heat waves & drought. Be 77 views · 3 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 18 Aug 2026 @DrSimEvans Know where the number came from ? A statistical model hypothesis. Youre using false data to push an agenda And you call yourself a Dr? The Arday masters was it? Stupid cunt. https://t.co/dS9ADebtA0 89 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 18 Aug 2026 Reform UK's Richard Tice: "When it’s a bit warm, let’s enjoy it…rather than just be doom and gloom about it." Met Office: More than 2,700 heat deaths NHS: More 999 calls than Covid Farmers: "Brutal harvest…one of the worst ever" Your own eyes: "Inferno…fires engulf…homes" https: 6.7K views · 157 likes · 78 reposts · 36 replies 18 Aug 2026 REMINDER: As UK govt launches consultation on weaker EV targets, worth noting that this could cost consumers £3bn a year by 2030 (cos EVs are far cheaper to own) It could also add 8% to net oil imports and undermine UK's single-biggest climate policy https://t.co/lmF6E6eZoA htt 4.8K views · 68 likes · 38 reposts · 11 replies 14 Aug 2026 "High temperatures have meant London Ambulance Service (LAS) was busier in June than it was during the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic." https://t.co/KzBf1kXkgp https://t.co/Ds7JS0JTzf 3.1K views · 39 likes · 13 reposts · 2 replies 13 Aug 2026 NEW ANALYSIS: Weaker EV targets could cost UK consumers £3bn a year by 2030 * EVs are much cheaper to own * Weaker targets means fewer EVs * Fewer EVs means higher costs * It could also raise UK net oil imports by 8% in 2030 (!) and CO2 by 2.5% https://t.co/lmF6E6eZoA https://t 4.3K views · 51 likes · 18 reposts · 12 replies 12 Aug 2026 Worth a read. Where did the number of 2,700 come from? Thin air. Its from a model Not actual dead people https://t.co/MHMQ3ZzMvR via @LD_Sceptics 28.7K views · 742 likes · 310 reposts · 53 replies 17 Jul 2026 @DrSimEvans How's the British steel manufacturing going? You know, the best steel in the world, are we making any of that? 2K views · 104 likes · 0 reposts · 5 replies 05 Mar 2026 @DrSimEvans You communists have succeeded in impoverishing and deindustrializing the UK based on your delusions https://t.co/PqnIA4K4gm 2.7K views · 280 likes · 11 reposts · 3 replies 05 Mar 2026 @DrSimEvans Globally, emissions reached record heights in 2025 as global coal demand rose 0.5% to a record 8.85 billion tons. https://t.co/kYvGpVmnt9 https://t.co/YoCxhtu45w https://t.co/YIPG5gqAaN 6.8K views · 121 likes · 17 reposts · 4 replies 05 Mar 2026 NEW ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet. All the details in our article: https://t.co/bub09Kb1h0 https://t. 347.8K views · 1.5K likes · 319 reposts · 186 replies 05 Mar 2026 Renewables are NOT REPLACING fossil fuels, they're ADDING to them. As renewables grow, fossil fuel consumption is also up, emissions are rising, and global warming is accelerating. We're set to reach 2ºC by the 2030s as Earth transitions to a much hotter climate state. http 23.9K views · 31 likes · 6 reposts · 6 replies 28 Feb 2026