🎙️ LISTEN: Shaun Fitzgerald and Jacob Pantling speak on BBC Radio 4 about technologies that could help cool the planet. Listen live at 12:04 UK time, or catch up afterwards with the link below. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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🎙️ LISTEN: Shaun Fitzgerald and Jacob Pantling speak on BBC Radio 4 about technologies that could help cool the planet. Listen live at 12:04 UK time, or catch up afterwards with the link below. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Who asked that?
Ask it to name physicists whose surnames begin with ‘Cav’. It’s a bit thick!
The tax joke was hilarious!
Correlation or causation? Maybe @xkcd.com was inspired by my photos… 😜 Anyway, tides are awesome! Thanks, Moon!
Heat pumps selling light hot cakes. They actually do work!
They appear to have lost the meaning of journalism. It’s tragic. We first met in the early 90s — what pathetic progress since then!
School Astronomy Society's first video of the year chosen: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
The assault on expertise is driven by an agenda to place uniformed, ill-conceived, often politically-motivated antiscience from charlatans on an equal footing with scientific consensus. Please read #ScienceUnderSiege by @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & me: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/science-un...
The US brought in nearly $30 Billion in tariffs in July, triple the amount collected in previous years That's not good news Tariffs are taxes on Americans That $30B was collected from you and me when we bought food, clothes, electronics...
He’d preemptively pardon himself. Again. Tragic mess of a world. Just look at Tory objections to things today that were their own policies! Keep smiling.
Still true.
Anyone know a Douglas Adams fan called Maggie? This will make a lovely gift! onlineshop.oxfam.org.uk/hitchhikers-...
Repeat after me: 40% of the men arrested for rioting against asylum seekers in Southport had previously been reported to the police for domestic violence. Why would anyone want to associate themselves with that lot? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
You can see my France 24 interview from over the weekend below. Was really great to talk about compound hazards and #climatechange youtu.be/bf-DbYF-I9I?...
Cyclists, don't forget to wear hi viz!
Bernie Taupin anxiously checking if he needs to rewrite Candle in the Wind again
RW media: We're here outside an asylum hotel, where trouble may be about to start. RW protesters: Hey, look! There's a whole bunch of media types hanging around outside that hotel. Let's go and give them a proper show. RW media: We're here outside an asylum hotel, where trouble has started. etc.
🧶 Love this. Given how little money makes it to farmers, better wool as a consequence of grazing around solar panels is a win! 🐑
Wish I’d been able to join in the journey!
Oops! I feel so sorry for 1976, which looks chilly by comparison now!
"The idea she was the PM's political prisoner, or had an 'unfair trial'? She pled guilty!" Lucy Connolly - jailed for a race-hate post after Southport - is being used to criticise the British judicial system by the right.
Hah! Good spot! What on earth? Still, remember when Wales got deleted altogether and turned into a bigger Irish Sea?
It says ‘Europe’ not ‘EU’ though. We’ve not moved out. 😞
This is more newsworthy… bsky.app/profile/paro...
Meta-perceptions matter -- they drive behaviour and sometimes lead to spirals of silence.
UK looking very out of it there. 😞
Throw in climate chaos and the challenge is even greater.
One major answer to the housing problems in a lot of countries is to stop property being treated as an asset for the rich to park their money in. And stop this being treated as "investment". www.ft.com/content/4a5b...
Fabulous!
It’s 2025. How can we operate a railway on which bikes have to be dismantled…
Never!
"None of this is magic. It’s physics. The research task is to probe side effects with eyes wide open, ramp cautiously, and measure everything." Read the article 👉 genn.cc/hugh-hunt-st...
"Let’s be blunt. After 30 years of climate negotiations, we did not deliver the rapid fossil fuel decline needed to avert deep damage," says Hugh Hunt in a new article. "A generation ago it was reasonable to call geoengineering a dangerous distraction. Today, refusing to research it is reckless."
Good on the Mirror for having the bravery to strike out against this bullshit
#UN confirms: people in #Gaza suffer from a #famine. A famine "openly promoted" by the government of #Israel as a weapon of war.
This. My son who is SEND and assessed in his EHCP tests as having barely any numeracy is being made take a third resit for Maths (though he passed English) in January. It’s a cruel and unusual torture.
Is it true that solar and wind power make electricity bills skyrocket? @hannahritchie.bsky.social shows with US data that having lots of solar+wind doesn’t lead to more expensive power. Nor does the absence of solar and wind guarantee that your power will be cheap.
In case you’ve not seen this body of work: bsky.app/profile/chri...
Not good.
Congratulations to everyone!
Amazing!
Yeah, they should have had high viz and helmets.
I’m sure ‘Thierry’ was well taught! Autocorrect for theory!
Would love to see the way Thierry was taught, the way practical was led, etc. But interesting! Might try this myself…
Ha! Me too!
It's hard to think of a more brutal parable against 21st greed than "It caused old men to buy newspapers so that they could lie about the nature of reality at the devastating expense of all current and future generations."
Whole watery world in UK needs a wrecking ball taken to all aspects. Such an indictment of privatisation.
Feargal Sharkey accuses Environment Agency of illegally draining River Lea www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Lane to the mist, perfectly sums up February. Hope it raises loads! 🍱
Such blissful doginess! Methinks other dogs should watch this to learn how to behave (and what to expect!)
Trump’s adoration is reserved for dictators, not defenders of freedom.
What a world they’ve made:
Wonderful news! Good luck with the rendezvous and next stage.
Fingers crossed. If not, quick crowd funder for this? www.bikesofinverness.co.uk/product/Aethos
Same sort of people who championed the fact that many elderly people dying of covid had ‘existing health conditions’.
Rotten luck. Hope it is readily fixed so you’re back on the road!
They really mean business with that warning sign!
Smoke from Spain/Portugal?
Bits of it are amazing. A few hundred metres or so. Then you're dumped into junctions with car drivers cutting across lanes, oblivious. At the rate of progress I've witnessed in the last quarter century, it will take 500 years to complete the project.
Have you ever cycled in Cambridge? It’s supposed to be the best in the UK, but it is almost entirely inadequate. Imagine choosing to accept rubbish infrastructure with a shrug. So many here have no imagination. 😞
Amazing weather still - you’ve been so fortunate. Fun fact - during WWII the school I work at moved there to avoid bombs!
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I'll grab from Amazon - I had it in my basked overnight for The Works (for click and collect) but didn't order as I wanted to put a larger order together. Now all sold out! Cheers.
How about that? A victory for people who actually read.
@camcycle.bsky.social how embarrassing is this? www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/roads-i...
We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good. - Carl Sagan
we need this on uk tv asap
Incredible! You’re doing really well. Hope spirits are high! 🥃
Education needs a serious cash injection. And mis- and disinformation needs to be fought at every level. What goes around comes around.
So I just nipped in to Bar Hill 'the works' and asked for this and she said they'd sold out! Thought I'd buy a couple of copies (I have the kindle edition) for school... £3.99 to get them 'click and collect' doubles the price! :-(
Breakfast looks full on, but is that polystyrene?! 😮
Name and shame campsite - or share link to tripadvisor reviews… such a shame UK can have exploitation from campsites - so very different to the continent.
Also, they show diffraction flares on the image, which would be tricky with planets! Artistic licence broken. But fun, after the great meteors recently. ☄️
Fabulous work. They will forever remember your efforts and belief in them.
You’re all making fabulous progress. Keep it steady, eat, drink and rest.
I wonder how many schools across the world could do this... and what the collective impact would be? The trick would be to do it secretly, without song or dance. Who's up for it?
The effort that has to be made to counter nonsense is unsustainable and so wearing. Well done though.
Huge thanks to the dozens of climate scientists who sent us their rebuttals to the catalogue of outright falsehoods and misleading claims in Trump's new 'critical' climate report. This factcheck is the longest article CB has ever published - 27,500 words already and likely to keep growing...
This difference is likely to grow.
My phone autocorrected it, so I cast a spell to reverse such barbarity!
Witch Friday is it?
Imagine swapping diesel cars for EVs…
Big news for dashcam/helmetcam users: Judge Affirms Legality Of Public-Submitted Road Crime Footage In Landmark Ruling www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...
Active travel commutes are the #1 way to help overcome those issues, but living close enough to school can be very costly! Enjoy the rest of the break.
Dolly Parton has sent my daughter a new book every month for years as she does for thousands of children. She help fund the development of the Covid vaccine. She’s not a billionaire. I think as non wealthy people it’s hard to even imagine how much billionaires *could* be doing with their money.
I checked the claim of the DOE report that sea level is rising at a lower rate than predicted by IPCC: it is false. For 2030, the IPCC AR6 predicts a best estimate 9-10 cm relative to 1995-2014 (Table 9.9). The satellite data show a rise of 74 mm until 2025. At this rate that will be 93 mm by 2030.
On Friday, a deranged anti-vaccine conspiracist shot 100’s of bullets into CDC HQ in Atlanta, killing a police officer. HHS Secretary RFK, Jr., the world’s most influential anti-vax & BS promoter took 18 hours to issue an infuriatingly lame message to CDC staff.
Clever twist!
“A policy that benefited the richest and cost the UK £100bn: it’s long past time to end the fuel duty freeze.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Wish Sir David Mackay was still around, he’d have pounced on this nonsense before it took off. Govt needs better and more advisers, but also civil service needs better science base.
Not at all surprised. Homo sapiens showing its lack of humanity again. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Be sure to all shout out”shut up legs!” When you see him! Tailwinds to you today…
Fabulous! Whisky?
Re-upping these:
Literally! Well done.
Possible release of benzene.... This is a brand new facility from Shell. To make plastic. It's been a disaster from the get go and is poisoning the locals.
