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These throwable fire extinguishers seem like a real-life example of xkcd.com/937 — they have really good reviews from everyone except the few people who tried using them to put out fires
January 6, 2024 at 6:40 PM
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A pretty crazy year for weather and climate this year! Bob Henson and I pick 10 events that really stood out.
Ten ‘you must be kidding’ weather and climate facts of 2023 » Yale Climate Connections
The year was packed with bizarre weather events and unmistakable signs of climate change.
yaleclimateconnections.org
December 27, 2023 at 2:44 AM
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BREAKING: UK government boosts heat pump grants by an extra £1.5bn.

www.gov.uk/government/n...
Families, business and industry to get energy efficiency support
Around a million homes will be made warmer and hundreds of business supported, as £6bn is allocated to cut energy use and bills.
www.gov.uk
December 18, 2023 at 9:38 AM
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The last episode of #PlanetEarthIII is magnificent. It says what needs to be said.
At last
At last
At last.
December 10, 2023 at 9:25 PM
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The COP process is broken - broken *by design*. Can it be fixed, or should it be bypassed altogether? I explore some options.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Cop28 is a farce rigged to fail, but there are other ways we can try to save the planet | George Mon...
Inaction and self-interest are built into climate summits. Instead, we need a voting system that can’t be subverted by fossil fuel producers, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2023 at 11:08 AM
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Astonishingly, they're letting me loose on Question Time tonight.
December 7, 2023 at 9:11 AM
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UK Government has effectively banned foreign post-doc researchers & scientists.
December 4, 2023 at 6:47 PM
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The "effective altruism" and "effective accelerationism" ideologies that have been cropping up in AI debates are just a thin veneer over the typical blend of Silicon Valley techno-utopianism, inflated egos, and greed. Let's try something else.

newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/effective-...
Effective obfuscation
Silicon Valley's "effective altruism" and "effective accelerationism" only give a thin philosophical veneer to the industry's same old impulses.
newsletter.mollywhite.net
November 26, 2023 at 5:19 AM
Nice moon halo above Oxford tonight
November 25, 2023 at 9:00 PM
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Will we reach 1.5°C in 2023 or 2°C on Tuesday?

diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2023/11/22/w...
November 22, 2023 at 3:07 PM
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this is a bloody great name for a climate report

www.unep.org/resources/em...
November 20, 2023 at 7:09 PM
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The Signal to Noise Paradox from a Cat’s Perspective

blogs.reading.ac.uk/weather-and-...
November 13, 2023 at 12:34 PM
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On Thursday #StormCiaran is forecast to cross southern England. The track is still a bit uncertain but will bring very strong winds to southern areas.

At around 953mb this will likely be the lowest or second-lowest sea level pressure observed in this region in the last 200 years.
October 31, 2023 at 10:24 AM