Weekend after a week of low carbon electricity. Wind and solar continue to power a nation whose electricity prices are tethered to the price of gas.

I can highly recommend this thread + linked article. Reading it I now properly understand how marginal pricing works and why the linkage between gas and electricity pricing in the uk has weakened recently and should be largely history within 4 years (as it already is in Spain) and how CfD helps.

Cars are stationary 97% of the time.

The average person drives 50 miles a week.

The average EV does 270 miles on a charge.

A modern car only needs 20 minutes to charge.

Only 0.047% of EVs stationary time needs to be plugged in annually.

If you don’t do any of this do you even need a car.

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The Positive Climate News You May Have Missed This Year by @davidfickling.bsky.social

Some Grids Have Almost Decarbonized:
"in some parts of world, decarbonizing electricity is approaching its endgame.
Roughly three-quarters of power generation in UK & Europe this year came from non-fossil sources"

For >200 million Americans this Xmas will feel surreal. More like an Easter weather when not even warmer specially the night temperatures.

Gas Stoves Account For More Than Half of Some Americans’ Exposure to a Known Toxin, New Research Concludes - Inside Climate News The common kitchen appliance plays an outsized role in exposure to nitrogen dioxide, a toxic air pollutant.

We got rid of our gas stove about 4 years ago when I inadvertently discovered (thanks to charging a portable AQ monitor in the kitchen while cooking dinner) that the damned thing was leaking several toxic chemicals into our air. I wish we had given it the boot much sooner.

@mckennapr.bsky.social

An unfinished Pompeian construction site reveals ancient Roman building technology - Nature Communications Here the authors combine microstructural and chemical analysis of building materials collected from an active construction site in Pompeii prior to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 ...

Self-healing Roman concrete: reaction rims around volcanic aggregates show that calcium ions originating from the dissolution of lime clasts diffuse and remineralize, producing amorphous phases and various polymorphs of calcium carbonate ⚒️🧪🏺
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is figure 2, which shows temperature–mortality relationship across Europe.

A study in Nature Climate Change quantifies the potential for extreme heat events in Europe to generate mass mortality and projects tens of thousands of excess deaths. go.nature.com/483zJc3 🧪

Is the Atlantic Ocean circulation close to tipping? YouTube video by Earth System Analysis - Potsdam Institute

Is the Atlantic Ocean circulation close to tipping?
Hear the latest science as I presented it last month at the ATLAS25 event in Helsinki.
Let me know if anything is unclear, or if you see good reasons why your government shouldn't immediately act on this. 🌊
youtu.be/ULJXqOZuY-8

China’s CO2 emissions from fossil fuels and cement, million tonnes of CO2, rolling 12-month totals until September 2025. Source: Emissions are estimated from National Bureau of Statistics data on production of different fuels and cement, China Customs data on imports and exports and WIND Information data on changes in inventories, applying emissions factors from China’s latest national greenhouse gas emissions inventory and annual emissions factors per tonne of cement production until 2024. Sector breakdown of coal consumption is estimated using coal consumption data from WIND Information and electricity data from the National Energy Administration. The consumption of petrol, diesel and jet fuel is adjusted to match quarterly totals estimated by Sinopec.

NEW – Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions have now been flat or falling for 18 months | @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social

Read here: buff.ly/ONGzk3a

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We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

Jane Goodall, Eminent Primatologist Who Chronicled the Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91

“Since young girls began reading about my early life and my career with the chimps, many, many, many of them have told me that they went into conservation or animal behavior because of me… I sincerely hope that it will help to create more interest and fascination in the natural world.” Jane Goodall

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Following news on social media boosts knowledge, belief accuracy and trust - Nature Human Behaviour Altay et al. show that following the news on social media increases current affairs knowledge, the ability to discern true from false news and trust in the news.

📰 Social media news helps

A study found that following news accounts on Instagram and WhatsApp boosted knowledge, belief accuracy, and trust in news, without raising polarisation.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#SciComm 🧪 #SocialMedia

Trump links autism and Tylenol: is there any truth to it? The US president calls the widely used painkiller, also known as paracetamol, ‘a very big factor’ in autism, but scientists say that strong evidence is lacking.

Trump links autism and Tylenol: is there any truth to it?

Helpful 🧪 explainer by @helenpearson.bsky.social & @heidiledford.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is figure 1, which shows temperature-related risk of death during 2015–2019.

More than 62,000 people in Europe may have died from heat-related causes in the summer of 2024, according to a study in Nature Medicine. The authors also suggest a new early-warning system that can reliably predict heat-health emergencies at least 1 week in advance. go.nature.com/48vdZrn 🧪

This is mind-blowing. Norway has gone from essentially ZERO sales of non-emitting Battery Electric Vehicles to *94%* of new passenger vehicles sales. In about 13 years! Incredible.

How are they doing it @robbieandrew.bsky.social?

"What changed? In short, everything but the science ..."

Contrast media near-silence on the inflated costs of Sizewell C with the hyperventilating already taking place at the prospect of offshore wind being £100/MWh - it actually might be more like £80/MWh, the auction will discover

Sizewell C is £286/MWh

Repeated heatwaves can age you as much as smoking or drinking Long-term study suggests that the more heatwaves people are exposed to, the more it accelerates body ageing.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
“The study, published in Nature Climate Change, suggests that moderate increases in cumulative heatwave exposure increase a person’s biological age — to an extent comparable to regular smoking or alcohol consumption.”

Net zero needs AI — five actions to realize its promise Without artificial-intelligence technologies, balancing human-caused greenhouse-gas emissions with carbon removals by 2050 is out of reach. Action in five areas is needed to keep this goal alive.

Achieving net zero will not be possible without AI technologies, argues Amy Luers, Sustainability Science & Innovation directs at @microsoft.com

A timely piece, when AI tools are under scrutiny for their sustainability costs
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This image is figure 2 which shows the user interface of the Bad Vaxx game used for the experiments.

A study published in Scientific Reports reveals that an online game can enhance individuals' ability to identify vaccine misinformation. The game uses inoculation theory to expose players to manipulation techniques that are commonly used by anti-vaccine groups. go.nature.com/3JiHq5L 🧪

This Nature article argues that the recent declines in Antarctic sea-ice, ice-sheet, abyssal meridional overturning circulation (MOC), and marine species habitats point to a potential abrupt changes in the Antarctic environment: 🌊🧪🥼❄️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Why are food prices rising so fast? Food and drink prices have risen by 4.9% over the last year, according to ONS inflation data.

"Drought in the UK has meant that crop yields were lower this year, while extreme weather in other countries has raised the wholesale prices of goods like coffee beans and cocoa."

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

@nationalacademies.org launches self-funded, fast-track review of latest evidence for whether greenhouse gas emissions endanger health and welfare (same topic as the “four old scientists, an economist and a LLM” Dept of Energy report) — calls for input by August 27

This is a useful guide for journalists reporting on extreme events. Provides a nuanced understanding of many issues like this

www.worldweatherattribution.org/reporting-ex...