Bob D 🦋
@bobathon.bsky.social
physicist interested in quantum theory, cosmology, climate change, stars, yorkshire, wildlife, birds, fell running, mindfulness, mindlessness, the world and stuff
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🔴 The Telegraph’s Record of Climate Falsehoods
The newspaper has been scolding the BBC for its editorial failings, while issuing a string of climate corrections.
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The newspaper has been scolding the BBC for its editorial failings, while issuing a string of climate corrections.
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The Telegraph’s Record of Climate Falsehoods
The Telegraph, which has accused the BBC of bias and a lack of editorial rigour, has been forced to amend a swathe of climate inaccuracies. The BBC’s director-general and CEO resigned this weekend aft...
www.desmog.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
🔴 The Telegraph’s Record of Climate Falsehoods
The newspaper has been scolding the BBC for its editorial failings, while issuing a string of climate corrections.
📝 @writesbright.bsky.social
The newspaper has been scolding the BBC for its editorial failings, while issuing a string of climate corrections.
📝 @writesbright.bsky.social
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Our idiotic and incompetent government has just agreed to pay more than a million £ a day in support of the continued destruction of ancient forests to feed the Drax power plant
Pure insanity
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Pure insanity
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say
Exclusive: report by Stand.earth says subsidiary of power plant received truckloads of whole logs at biomass pellet sites
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Our idiotic and incompetent government has just agreed to pay more than a million £ a day in support of the continued destruction of ancient forests to feed the Drax power plant
Pure insanity
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Pure insanity
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Wtf
‘Environmental catastrophe’ fears as millions of plastic beads wash up on Camber Sands
‘Environmental catastrophe’ fears as millions of plastic beads wash up on Camber Sands
Southern Water is being investigated amid concerns the spill could have dire impact on rare sea life
Southern Water is investigating after millions of contaminated plastic beads washed up on Camber Sands beach, risking an “environmental catastrophe”.
The biobeads could have a dire impact on marine life, the local MP has said, with fears rare sea life, including seabirds, porpoises and seals, could ingest them and die. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Wtf
The sparky, disorderly, collaborative flow of progress.
We've come a long way in understanding the deep physical structure of everything, but humans realising things is always a messy business.
Wonderfully clear short presentation by @seanmcarroll.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT7D...
We've come a long way in understanding the deep physical structure of everything, but humans realising things is always a messy business.
Wonderfully clear short presentation by @seanmcarroll.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT7D...
Sean Carroll: Einstein’s most radical thought
YouTube video by Big Think
www.youtube.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:08 PM
The sparky, disorderly, collaborative flow of progress.
We've come a long way in understanding the deep physical structure of everything, but humans realising things is always a messy business.
Wonderfully clear short presentation by @seanmcarroll.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT7D...
We've come a long way in understanding the deep physical structure of everything, but humans realising things is always a messy business.
Wonderfully clear short presentation by @seanmcarroll.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT7D...
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Swifts have declined 70% since 1994.
They fly from Africa to breed here, only to find we've blocked their nest sites.
A £35 swift brick nest box was proposed for all new buildings.
The construction industry lobbied Labour to block it.
Biodiversity sustains life. Labour sustains economic power.
They fly from Africa to breed here, only to find we've blocked their nest sites.
A £35 swift brick nest box was proposed for all new buildings.
The construction industry lobbied Labour to block it.
Biodiversity sustains life. Labour sustains economic power.
November 8, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Swifts have declined 70% since 1994.
They fly from Africa to breed here, only to find we've blocked their nest sites.
A £35 swift brick nest box was proposed for all new buildings.
The construction industry lobbied Labour to block it.
Biodiversity sustains life. Labour sustains economic power.
They fly from Africa to breed here, only to find we've blocked their nest sites.
A £35 swift brick nest box was proposed for all new buildings.
The construction industry lobbied Labour to block it.
Biodiversity sustains life. Labour sustains economic power.
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Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment
Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t
www.science.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
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This is your weather on fossil fuel pollution. And it's costing you much more than you realize.
@climatechris.bsky.social breaks it down:
@climatechris.bsky.social breaks it down:
Extreme Weather Report - Nov 6 2025
YouTube video by Free Speech TV
www.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
This is your weather on fossil fuel pollution. And it's costing you much more than you realize.
@climatechris.bsky.social breaks it down:
@climatechris.bsky.social breaks it down:
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Astonishing video, worth watching in full.
While agreeing in the round,
I've found this (below) both reassuring and highlighting of the need for constant vigilance. There is no perfect end state. See if you can see where the 'thousand year reich' occurs (also, that Roman Empire lasted quite a while).
m.youtube.com/watch?v=UY9P...
I've found this (below) both reassuring and highlighting of the need for constant vigilance. There is no perfect end state. See if you can see where the 'thousand year reich' occurs (also, that Roman Empire lasted quite a while).
m.youtube.com/watch?v=UY9P...
The History of Europe: Every Year
YouTube video by Cottereau
m.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Astonishing video, worth watching in full.
Imagine if we elected people who treated 'causes more deaths than jobs' as a bad thing
Pollution from Ineos’s Antwerp plastic plant ‘will cause more deaths than jobs created’
- Lawyers challenge €4bn Project One development, saying emissions and health impacts vastly underestimated
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
- Lawyers challenge €4bn Project One development, saying emissions and health impacts vastly underestimated
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Pollution from Ineos’s Antwerp plastic plant ‘will cause more deaths than jobs created’
Lawyers challenge €4bn Project One development, saying emissions and health impacts vastly underestimated
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Imagine if we elected people who treated 'causes more deaths than jobs' as a bad thing
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To be clear, what is being proposed here is to axe the main mechanism for getting Britain’s homes insulated - which is by FAR the best way to reduce household energy bills in the long term 🤦♂️
…and also, just incidentally, an absolute non-negotiable requirement for meeting UK climate targets 😬🥵☠️
…and also, just incidentally, an absolute non-negotiable requirement for meeting UK climate targets 😬🥵☠️
Reeves considers cut to green levies in effort to reduce cost of energy bills
Exclusive: Chancellor hopes to save up to £170 from average bill but industry insiders say move would be ‘disastrous’
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:17 AM
To be clear, what is being proposed here is to axe the main mechanism for getting Britain’s homes insulated - which is by FAR the best way to reduce household energy bills in the long term 🤦♂️
…and also, just incidentally, an absolute non-negotiable requirement for meeting UK climate targets 😬🥵☠️
…and also, just incidentally, an absolute non-negotiable requirement for meeting UK climate targets 😬🥵☠️
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The media has been one of the channels through which climate disinformation has flowed as part of coordinated and well-funded campaigns from the fossil-fuel industry, writes @amywestervelt.bsky.social.
The Media Is Complicit in the Climate Confusion
The vast majority of people want their governments to take climate action—but most wrongly think they’re in the minority. The media is partly to blame.
www.thenation.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:33 PM
The media has been one of the channels through which climate disinformation has flowed as part of coordinated and well-funded campaigns from the fossil-fuel industry, writes @amywestervelt.bsky.social.
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"Prince William’s prestigious climate prize hired a Brazilian public relations firm that was also under contract to the country’s state oil company Petrobras, which is facing criticism for its plans to drill in the Amazon basin"
@tjjordan.bsky.social in @desmog.com >
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/r...
@tjjordan.bsky.social in @desmog.com >
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/r...
November 4, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Mikaela Loach is amazing. How have I not heard of her before? This is such a great conversation
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMf3...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMf3...
How Grass Roots Can Turn Into Global Movements
YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski
www.youtube.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Mikaela Loach is amazing. How have I not heard of her before? This is such a great conversation
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMf3...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMf3...
The Lynx Will Silently Spread Throughout Britain
YouTube video by Leave Curious
www.youtube.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
The last ever episode of Science in Action, the excellent flagship science programme of the BBC World Service 😢
And it's a belter...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
And it's a belter...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
BBC World Service - Science In Action, How science got here, and where next
As anti-science leaves research reeling, does evidence-based policy have a future?
www.bbc.co.uk
November 2, 2025 at 12:32 PM
The last ever episode of Science in Action, the excellent flagship science programme of the BBC World Service 😢
And it's a belter...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
And it's a belter...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
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Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
More than 50 child asylum seekers still missing after disappearing from Kent care
Council data obtained by the Guardian shows 345 children have gone missing in recent years, many probably taken by traffickers
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Wow. I did not know that Alfred Russell Wallace (co-discoverer of evolution by natural selection) wrote a book in 1904 about the biological potential for life on other planets, and I've just found this extraordinary paragraph setting out the insanity of atmospheric pollution [1/3]. In 1904!
![But the sketch I have here attempted to give of its varied functions shows us that it is really a most complex structure, a wonderful piece of machinery, as[ 259] it were, which in its various component gases, its actions and reactions upon the water and the land, its production of electrical discharges, and its furnishing the elements from which the whole fabric of organic life is composed and perpetually renewed, may be truly considered to be the very source and foundation of life itself. This is seen, not only in the fact of our absolute dependence upon it every minute of our lives, but in the terrible effects produced by even a slight degree of impurity in this vital element. Yet it is among those nations that claim to be the most civilised, those that profess to be guided by a knowledge of the laws of nature, those that most glory in the advance of science, that we find the greatest apathy, the greatest recklessness, in continually rendering impure this all-important necessary of life, to such a degree that the health of the larger portion of their populations is injured and their vitality lowered, by conditions which compel them to breathe more or less foul and impure air for the greater part of their lives. The huge and ever-increasing cities, the vast manufacturing towns belching forth smoke and poisonous gases, with the crowded dwellings, where millions are forced to live under the most terrible insanitary conditions, are the witnesses to this criminal apathy, this incredible recklessness and inhumanity.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2g72wvrmzdfakrjq56d3lddj/bafkreidgfp3g5erh7m3rdhzqvar2th65nqj72arwtpxrzak4yvtepmshba@jpeg)
October 31, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Wow. I did not know that Alfred Russell Wallace (co-discoverer of evolution by natural selection) wrote a book in 1904 about the biological potential for life on other planets, and I've just found this extraordinary paragraph setting out the insanity of atmospheric pollution [1/3]. In 1904!
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October 29, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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To quote my friend @drkatemarvel.bsky.social, climate change won't make humanity extinct but we can do better than "not extinct". Raise your standards people!
October 28, 2025 at 8:46 PM
To quote my friend @drkatemarvel.bsky.social, climate change won't make humanity extinct but we can do better than "not extinct". Raise your standards people!
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892 mb and 185 mph. Very few places in the world in modern history have ever experienced what Jamaica is experiencing right now. Hurricanes of this magnitude directly hitting a major land mass are exceptionally rare.
A 10am EDT update from the National Hurricane Center now puts Melissa's sustained winds at 185 mph. Full text: www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh...?
October 28, 2025 at 2:11 PM
892 mb and 185 mph. Very few places in the world in modern history have ever experienced what Jamaica is experiencing right now. Hurricanes of this magnitude directly hitting a major land mass are exceptionally rare.
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Climate change DEFINITELY affects hurricane:
STRENGTH: Warmer water is hurricane food
RAINFALL: Warm air holds more water vapor
SURGE: Warmer water expands, warmer ice melts, sea levels rise
PREDICTION: hotter seas mean faster intensification
STRENGTH: Warmer water is hurricane food
RAINFALL: Warm air holds more water vapor
SURGE: Warmer water expands, warmer ice melts, sea levels rise
PREDICTION: hotter seas mean faster intensification
October 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Climate change DEFINITELY affects hurricane:
STRENGTH: Warmer water is hurricane food
RAINFALL: Warm air holds more water vapor
SURGE: Warmer water expands, warmer ice melts, sea levels rise
PREDICTION: hotter seas mean faster intensification
STRENGTH: Warmer water is hurricane food
RAINFALL: Warm air holds more water vapor
SURGE: Warmer water expands, warmer ice melts, sea levels rise
PREDICTION: hotter seas mean faster intensification
Superb that this is what '80s metal has evolved into 🤘
What a performance – and what a voice
www.youtube.com/watch?v=97Px...
What a performance – and what a voice
www.youtube.com/watch?v=97Px...
The Warning - EVOLVE (Live on The 2023 MTV Video Music Awards)
YouTube video by TheWarningVEVO
www.youtube.com
October 27, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Superb that this is what '80s metal has evolved into 🤘
What a performance – and what a voice
www.youtube.com/watch?v=97Px...
What a performance – and what a voice
www.youtube.com/watch?v=97Px...
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Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
October 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Latest horrifying details on Hurricane Melissa. Still intensifying (now 908mb with 165mph sustained winds), and set to reach Jamaica as a Cat 5 around dawn tomorrow, bringing storm surges, floods and landslides
youtu.be/05Ib5cBJAa8?...
youtu.be/05Ib5cBJAa8?...
Hurricane Melissa 11 a.m. Monday forecast update
YouTube video by 13News Now
youtu.be
October 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Latest horrifying details on Hurricane Melissa. Still intensifying (now 908mb with 165mph sustained winds), and set to reach Jamaica as a Cat 5 around dawn tomorrow, bringing storm surges, floods and landslides
youtu.be/05Ib5cBJAa8?...
youtu.be/05Ib5cBJAa8?...
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Research is of litle use if decisionmakers don't pay attention to it
Please sign!
Please sign!
📣 Calling UK scientists 📣
Please would you sign an open letter urging all MPs to attend the National Emergency Briefing with the science on the threats from ongoing damage to #climate & #nature - alongside positive actions.
See reply for how to sign 👇👇
Please share with colleagues 🙏
Please would you sign an open letter urging all MPs to attend the National Emergency Briefing with the science on the threats from ongoing damage to #climate & #nature - alongside positive actions.
See reply for how to sign 👇👇
Please share with colleagues 🙏
National Emergency Briefing on climate & nature
An unfiltered assessment of the latest threats to UK food supply, health and national security from eight leading experts to an invitation-only audience - also covering positive solutions. Westminster...
www.nebriefing.org
October 27, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Research is of litle use if decisionmakers don't pay attention to it
Please sign!
Please sign!