This video, and 2 copies of the matching book, have been sent to **every primary school in Ireland**.
It's possibly THE most outrageous industry propaganda I've ever seen. The descriptions of Sitka deadzones are so totally false, it's hard to know where to even start.
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Excited to attend the ribbon-cutting for the next segment of California’s solar canal initiative later this month in Hickman. Imagine generating solar power over 4,000 miles or so canals across the state. A lot of Sierra and Colorado River water to save via avoided evaporation.
In 20 years they’ll do a reunion tour and sell out croke park?
Good. 👏
'Ed Miliband will double down on Labour’s commitment to net zero in the face of the Middle East conflict this week, insisting that as fossil fuel prices soar "the era of clean energy security must come of age".'
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Chances of getting the boys in their trucks to blockade the data centres?
15% of fossil fuels extracted each year are used to make fertiliser, run farms, process foods and transport them. In a very real sense our food is made from oil and gas.
We are about to feel a very painful food shock.
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Buenos Dias from Colombia! 🌺
Around 50 nations will meet here to discuss fossil-fuel transition.
They have already been circulated a draft report recommending that they “halt all new expansion”, according to an exclusive by me for @carbonbrief.org
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Back to the simple natural order of things…….. not human arrogance based on destruction of our water,air, environment for profit…… for the 1%
This - every time I would coordinate a street closure I made sure we had sign that said "Street Open for People"
In unfortunate news, one of the missions I work on, NASA TRACERS, is on the chopping block in the budget proposed by Trump and Vought.
A functional pair of sats that would just outright be shut off because the current federal government is anti science and anti exploration.
Who’s going to tell these councillors that the moment they step out of their cars, they’re pedestrians too? By their own logic, they’d need to be in hi-vis at all times.
Rather than tackling dangerous driving or poor road design, the responsibility gets dumped on the most vulnerable people instead.
Ireland is playing a dangerous game with food security.
'The policies of successive governments have prioritised an export-led agricultural system leveraging the big beasts of beef and dairy, while ignoring the needs of our indigenous veg and fruit growers.'
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
It is both true that rural areas are subsidized by urban areas and that planning (or lack of) in rural areas has made the provision of the most basic services incredibly difficult and impossible in somecases... Making rural areas hard places to live
Forget "total cost of ownership." In the UK, the average EV is now cheaper than the average ICE vehicle, up front. Sticker cost.
And of course the savings just keep accumulating after that.
Three scientists in a peat bog, surrounded by brown and green hummocks of heather and cotton grass. Between them, a slender pipe (a corer) reaches upwards into the bright blue sky.
Collecting peat cores at Cors Caron in western Wales last May. We hit the clay basement at 8.5m! We are just getting the data in now - past vegetation transitions had a big impact on the peat composition and that still shapes the microbiology today!
Peatland legacies persist for millenia.
I think this is my favourite so far. Alice Knox in Blackrock, Co. Dublin who is very glad to be single. #1926census
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In Science & Climate in @irishtimes.com, @whittledaway.bsky.social looks at how Ireland's hillscapes have been savaged by sheep and by policies that fail to offer upland farmers a viable alternative......
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
NEW: Where are voters landing on the North Sea oil debate post-Iran?
A quick thread on some of the fluidities and ambiguities, which I think can tell you something about polling/public opinion itself.
Includes some new polling and message testing via @yougov.co.uk for @persuasionuk.bsky.social 🧵
Might be time to bust out one of my favourite climate stories of all time: how BECCS was mostly a kind of model hallucination
At BCCE some years ago (2018?) I remember a talk where the presenter was sharing a nifty worksheet. If students followed the instructions on the worksheet, they would always set up stoichiometry questions correctly. The presenter was so proud of how error-free the worksheet was.
Scientists warn that no adaptation measure can sustain Venice as rising sea levels threaten to swallow the city.
➡️ https://l.euronews.com/ZzbG
"In retrospect, basing the entire global food system on fossil fuels may have been a poor idea." -- @benehrenreich.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/3634...
Across the AI value chain, a scramble for electricity, grid connections, manufacturing capacity, chips and capital has set in The speed of the AI revolution is increasingly contrasting with the speed of the physical, social and economic systems that underpin it. Bottlenecks across energy supply chains and advanced chip manufacturing have tightened since our last report. Planning and regulatory systems are being stretched by the wave of project applications for data centres, amid a broader trend of rapid load growth and electrification. Social acceptability is also a growing issue, as communities push back against data centre projects, and concerns about affordability and environmental impacts rise. Essential elements within the IT industry are currently facing limitations; notably, a shortage of high-bandwidth memory – integral to AI chip production – has developed over the past six months and is anticipated to persist through at least the end of 2027. Data centre investments have grown too large to be funded from company balance sheets alone, and large amounts of funding from capital markets will be critical for their buildout. As a result, the pace of data centre growth, and the resulting increase in energy consumption, will be sensitive to market sentiment, including expectations for returns on investment in data centres and AI deployment, as well as to broader macroeconomic and financing conditions. Understanding the energy implications of AI therefore also means following closely the technology’s economic trajector
Also what other ppl have been saying
- Rising chorus of constraints, bottlenecks etc as reality hits. What else did an industry greedily hoovering up resources from everywhere expect?
- Very carefully worded statement about "market sentiment", which in plain language is clearly: BUBBLE
The seething hatred they've had for Thunberg since the moment she popped up as a teenager saying, "let's not destroy the planet" because they worried (rightly) that environmentalism was a gateway to asking "who's responsible for all this shit and what else are they doing?"
Excellent piece on the #fuelprotests
While the "angry men" were out holding the country to ransom, we didn't hear a word from their populist political supporters about the vulnerable groups they were affecting like older and disabled people.
#SpeirGorm
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A dozen or so cars parked on a brand new bike path, Bóthar Stiofáin, Galway. Nearby, an event is being held to mark the unveiling of a plaque commemorating Steven Griffin, an Irish soldier who was killed in Lebanon (1980) while on duty with Unifil.
Utterly predictable — and you couldn't make it up.
Bóthar Stiofáin around lunchtime today.
A massive hailstorm hit parts of São Paulo, Brazil yesterday, bringing heavy rain and strong winds. In Piedade, it was on another level, with hail piling up and causing damage, especially to lightweight roofing sheets.
