BBC - Perfect Day promo (1997) YouTube video by dimsel

The 90s: youtu.be/QYT5BHUYx48

SPRINGER Spaniel

"The study’s author says Venice exemplifies the challenges that many low-lying coastal areas will face due to sea-level rise over the coming centuries, including the Maldives and the Netherlands."
For the UK, add the Fens, Broads, Somerset Levels and areas flanking the Thames Estuary to that list.

Don’t fly me to the moon Why NASA’s record breaking lunar mission left me strangely unmoved

This week humans returned to the Moon - something I've waited my life to witness. But watching the Artemis II launch left me feeling strangely unmoved. I was looking forward to something, and when it arrived I realised I had changed. And so had the Earth.
www.technosphere.earth/dont-fly-me-...

Call for citizen scientists to collect space dust Resident are urged to join a cosmic quest for micrometeorites from space landing in their gutters.

We’ve had the roofers working on our flat roof today, so I got them to sweep up all the crud and put it in a bag for this: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

ESA CCI webinar poster with icy permafrost landscape background and text 'Permafrost and climate change: insights from CCI data', date 22/04/2026

Permafrost is thawing across the globe and nearly 30 years of satellite data show it's accelerating 🛰️
Join the next ESA Climate Change Initiative webinar with Annett Bartsch to learn how Earth observation captures these changes.
22 April | 16:00 CEST | Register here: tinyurl.com/k6mhk53z

Flyer for a meditation workshop with a lady called Joy Mittens. There is a photo of a woman looking serene. The text says: Oxytocin Dance Meditation TOUCH AS MEDICINE Saturday 11th Apr: 6pm - 9:30pm The Forge, Collins Rd, Totnes "I genuinely think this is what should be taught in schools. I honestly believe that our societies would be more healthy and who knows... Maybe we could even eradicate war"- Chris Bullzini Advanced tickets: £25 (E10 Concessions) joymittens.life/workshops

Trump, Netanyahu and Khamenei. Totnes, 6pm this Saturday.

The Moonites are already gathering on the shores of the Sea of Tranquility and demanding that Earth stop sending illegal immigrants in small rockets across the Cislunar Channel.

Unfortunately, I’m too English to be an astronaut. I could never say any of these things, even after years of rigorous training.

The UK is cutting its aid budget to the lowest level in decades After pledging to increase the budget to 0.7% of GNI, the government is cutting it to 0.3%.

Most coverage has focused on the US, but the UK has announced the steepest cut to foreign aid. Down to 0.3% of its Gross National Income, well below the 0.7% UN target:
open.substack.com/pub/hannahri...

Radcliffe camera. Old round building with pillars and a domed roof clad in blue metal. It is surrounded by cobbled streets, black metal railings and neatly mown grass that you’re not allowed to walk on

ESA offices. New rectangular grey building in the background. Flags of all the ESA countries in the foreground, flying from white flagpoles on some grass. The sky is blue and the sun is in the top right corner.

A sunset from the top of a grassy hill. Dozens of people are walking up the hill in a long snake. There is a view of fields and Didcot power station in the distance.

I’ve had a wonderful (but busy) few days in Oxford for the @esaclimate.bsky.social co-location meeting

Looks ominous

Huge relief to dive into X and find out Ed Miliband is responsible for the energy crisis we're all facing and no-one else. There was me thinking it might be something altogether bigger and tougher to fix.

What this story says is that, if the war were continued for 1 year, the increase in CO2 emissions would be about 0.3% of global emissions. Given the disaster this war would be for the fossil fuel energy system, the demand destruction would probably more than outweigh this…

This Saturday marks #WorldGlaciersDay.

Understanding how glaciers and ice sheets move, thin, and lose mass is essential for projecting sea level rise. @esa.int Climate Change Initiative Glaciers and Ice Sheets projects deliver the satellite data to do just that. Find the projects here: t1p.de/5gm62

Shania Twain- Man! I Feel Like A Woman

Photo taken from the train window near Dawlish. A sunny day, the sun reflects off the waves in the background. There’s a wall in the foreground with a man in orange high-vis working to repair the sea wall.

Returning home via some of our most vulnerable coastal infrastructure #Dawlish

An old sign on the stairs to the gallery in the House of Lords reads: “NOTICE All Demonstrations by Strangers in the Gallery are out of order and must be treated accordingly”

A sign outside the Gallery reads: “THE USE OF OPERA GLASSES IN THE GALLERY IS NOT PERMITTED. Cholmondeley Lord Great Chamberlain”

No demonstrations and no opera glasses!

Who sits where in the House of Lords? Seating in the House of Lords is defined by precedence and tradition. Tudor laws laid the groundwork for the layout of the current chamber. However, changes to the makeup of the membership and roles i...

Before dinner with MPs, I watched a debate in the House of Lords. I was trying to work out where everyone sits because it’s not as straightforward as the Commons. If anyone is interested: lordslibrary.parliament.uk/who-sits-whe...

The Elizabeth Tower (Big Ben) shining gold in the evening winter sun. Blue sky. Black railings in the foreground. Part of the Millennium Wheel on the left partially obscured by ugly Portcullis House.

The corridor between the main lobby and Westminster Hall. Chandeliers hang from the vaulted ceiling. Statues of former prime ministers and paintings of scenes from British history line the corridor. The floor is tiled with very noisily patterned tiles.

This evening I’ve been in Parliament discussing sea level rise and the future of our coastline with some MPs. I learnt that the general public isn’t very aware that sea level rise is happening already or that it’s something that they should be concerned about 😬

This year . . .

Econ bro: I need to hire econ and finance bros for climate risk.

Me: Pretty sure you need a climate scientist or an engineer on your team.

Econ bro: Good point. Let's get an AI agent to feed the econ bro climate data because nothing could go wrong with that.

Me: Arrghhhhh.

Recent Observations of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica Are Consistent With High Rates of Loss in Next 50 Years Transient-calibrated ice loss projections of the actively thinning portion of Thwaites Glacier are made with two independent models Surface elevation-constrained projections show the best inter-m...

This new study in @agu.org GRL tests different ways of training models using two types of satellite data: "how fast the ice moves and how much the surface height changes over time." Models trained only on surface height changes performed better.

▶️ agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

They’ve got Truro and Tehran mixed up

The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit

Austrian glaciers disintegrating due to climate change, say scientists Scientists say nearly all of the significant glaciers in the Austrian Alps have shrunk.

“"Many glaciers are now losing so much mass that they barely react to periods of short-term cooling”

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Our coastline is slipping away — we need to act fast

Our coastline is slipping away — we need to act fast

Every week it goes on, every bit of the supply chain it spanners, it shaves off time at the end of oil's volume tail.

That's your positive message.

Now back to watching energy markets explode.

Charmouth Beach. Light brown sand in the foreground, muddy cliffs on the left, grey sea on the right and people and dogs walking on the sand

3 small, shiny bronze-coloured pyrite ammonites.

It was a foggy day at the beach, but I found these pyrite ammonites and some belemnites #fossils

Who doesn’t love seeing a supraglacial channel in winter? The ice shapes are amazing — frozen flows, bright blues, and patterns that show how glaciers move and melt. Nature at its coolest. #Glacier #Science #Glaciology

Sea levels around the world are much higher than we thought Most coastal risk assessments have underestimated current sea levels, meaning tens of millions of people face losing their homes to rising waters earlier than expected

www.newscientist.com/article/2517...