Map of local temperature trends from GISTEMP from 1970-2025. It's warming faster over land than the ocean, more in the North than in the South, and most of all in the Arctic. Red covers the regions that have warmed more than 2ºC - which is basically all NH extratropical land areas. Sorry.

Happy Earth Day!

I'm just waiting to hear back from another friend, but will get back to you if they decide it's too far on a school night!

Spotty microtonal wizards

If I happened to have one spare ticket for Angine de Poitrine's London show on 11th May, is there anyone who'd be particularly keen to see them?...

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

We found that getting a Heat Geek expert in made a massive difference for what was feasible in our 1930s house, Vs what generic consultants told us... www.heatgeek.com?utm_source=g...

Seeing quite a few people consider Linux as they find out that perfectly good hardware won't be supported on windows 11. Contemplating doing similar for a desktop computer that still gets some usage in our house. Anyone recommend the best How to Switch to Linux guide?

Great opportunity!

This is how you create e-waste

Sam Altman Says It'll Take Another Year Before ChatGPT Can Start a Timer An $852 billion company, ladies and gentlemen.

Putting aside Sam Altman just continuing to emit huge lies constantly, this is an amazing example of what I mean when I talk about how GenAI is replacing *extremely low energy* digital tasks with *WAY WAY HIGHER ENERGY* replacements that *do not even work*

Why TF is anyone using ChatGPT as a timer!

Small recycling charges on clothing unlikely to influence consumer behaviour - Sustainability Online The introduction of small Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) charges on clothing has little impact on consumer behaviour, a new study has found.

The introduction of small Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) charges on #clothing has little impact on consumer behaviour, provided said charges are below a certain level, a new study by WEFT and Manchester Metropolitan University has found. 👕

sustainabilityonline.net/news/small-r...

a clock that has the hands on the numbers 1 and 12 ALT: a clock that has the hands on the numbers 1 and 12

Anyone checked in on the doomsday clock people recently?...

There's a nice #Artemis II mission tracker here: artemis.cdnspace.ca

LOTS of data about its current position, crew activities, and whether or not the toilet is currently "Go"

The Middle Eastern war could cause the collapse of American fossil-hegemony and help China to remake the global energy order.
@katemac.bsky.social & I argue here:
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/war...

Too Successful to See How Much Trouble They’re In. The growing number of people whose prosperity is more brittle than anyone wants to admit — and why our silence about it is making everything worse.

New:

Why being relatively well-off doesn't necessarily make you safe from the economic brittleness of the climate chaos — but it does make the risk you face harder to see.

alexsteffen.substack.com/p/resilient-...

I feel like “the world passed peak gas-powered car sales in 2017” is not a widely known fact

And now the ear worm of Heeeeeeeeeelium is back in my head without even having to open the link 😁

Emergency Iranian oil terminal plans from 1984

Gulf Mirror special edition from Bahrain National Day 1984

Consoles 1984 style... Very fond memories of the Donkey Kong version we got there!

I've been sorting through some of my recently-deceased father's things and thought it curious to open a magazine from his time working in Bahrain to find news of a past Iran and Strait of Hormuz issue...

Sam Altman: ‘If I Don’t End The World, Someone Far More Dangerous Will’

Sam Altman: ‘If I Don’t End The World, Someone Far More Dangerous Will’

This is exactly why I oppose #AI. @privateeyenews.bsky.social are right on the money with calling out the level of oppression enabled by AI.

Cartoon by Bernard Hage: Title How to watch the collapse of civilisation 1. A bearded middle-aged man sitting in a chair, looking at his phone. He's slumped forward, his posture is terrible; a broken red line traces the curve of his back, and there's a red X next to the picture. 2. The same man sitting in the same chair looking at the same phone, but this time he's sitting up straight. A broken green line traces his straight spine, and there's a green tick next to the picture.

Today's inspirational message:

Line graph time series of 2026's daily Arctic sea ice extent compared to decadal averages from the 1980s to the 2010s. The decadal averages are shown with different colored lines with purple for the 1980s, blue for the 1990s, green for the 2000s, and white for the 2010s. Thin white lines are also shown for each year from 2000 to 2025. 2026 is shown with a thick gold line. There is a long-term decreasing trend in ice extent for every day of the year shown on this graph between February and April by looking at the decadal average line positions.

🚨 Ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the *lowest* on record (JAXA data)...

• about 640,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,050,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,460,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 1,950,000 km² below the 1980s mean

More: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

BBC Radio 4 - Rare Earth, Lakes, Lochs and Loughs Plunge into the chilly, much-disputed waters of the lakes of the British Isles.

AMR is one of the biggest public health threats of our time. I found genes capable of creating antibiotic-resistant superbugs in every water sample I tested from Lough Neagh and talk about this on BBC Rare Earth today. Full report in the Guardian tomorrow www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

ANALYSIS: Badenoch and Farage might not want to admit it, but Conservative and Reform plans to scrap net zero whilst boosting the North Sea would actually make the UK even more reliant on gas imports 🤔

www.carbonbrief.org/...

It's not just the price of petrol at the pump...

It's a great piece. More information is definitely not always a blessing – but even knowing the ability to find out is there can be enough to drive you mad if you end up fixated on that.

Brilliant. An expat im Dubai has a startling revelation, by @stephencollins.bsky.social

Now very much looking forward to seeing the band in the UK in May 😁 #AngineDePoitrine ⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫

This is not just sad or embarrassing or unfair. This is a crime in itself (certainly under the EU AI Act which of course doesn't apply in the UK, but I should think many countries have laws about deception over telecoms) but also a vector by which serious fraud is conducted. 1/2

There’s going to be Covid style shortages of cars, TVs and even washing machines and fridges, then job losses because assembly lines can’t source solid state memory, just so the stupidest person you know can state with 100% confidence a chatbot confirmed dinosaurs coexisted with humans.

Director General for Emerging Technology and Artificial Intelligence Department for Science, Innovation & Technology Apply before 11:55 pm on Sunday 22nd March 2026 Department for Science, Innovation & Technology Apply at advertiser's site Reference number 450276 Salary £174,000

Significant job this one. A chance to shape tech to work for the public interest.

Director General for Emerging Technology and Artificial Intelligence at the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology. (£174k)
www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...