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From the European Premiere of PRESSURE🎬 We caught up with Andrew Scott, Brendan Fraser, Damian Lewis and director Anthony Maras to discuss the film, which tells the story behind what is arguably the most important weather forecast in history In cinemas Sept 9 #PressureMovie @studiocanal.com

The Puffin social media team wanted me to make a video to promote The Far-Out Five book two but I've just got three new kittens. Please share this video so I can spend more time playing with Ponyo (and the other two) and less time plugging an incredibly funny graphic novel series for 7-11 year olds.

The momentum of this issue is in the wrong direction. The line should be: We're roasting, we're exposed to wildfires, we're experiencing drought, and these nutters aren't prepared to keep British people safe.

‘Chancellor Tice, the wheat harvest has collapsed again and food price inflation will be at 50 per cent by autumn.’ ‘Let them drink Nyetimber.’

11/ Adaptation has limits. Her environmental offer is flood defences and resilience. The IPCC finds hard limits already reached in some ecosystems, and limits that can be surpassed, producing losses and damages. Defences buy time, so fund them properly. They don't substitute for cutting emissions.

Time and again climate change is treated as though it were binary: we cannot prevent it, so ok, it’s there let’s embrace it. That’s entirely wrong: it is a sliding scale. We cannot prevent 1.5 degrees. But maybe 3? Or 5?

If I can, let me explain today's Times story. This is less to do with renewables and much more to do with where generation is located and how it shows up at a system level. /1

Everyone fixates on maximum daytime temperatures, but it's warm nights that tend to cause the most health issues to humans and also to plants

Once again, for those in the back.

The whole daily mean UK CET record. 1st and 99th %iles computed, then plotting how many days per year (within each decade) do days <1st %ile and >99th %ile occur. This allows analysis of the occurrence of the extremes), styled like the population pyramids I remember from GSCE Geography. #RStats

Great thread

In the face of frenzied right-wing attacks, this government has successfully executed one of the most ambitious climate change projects in the world. Time to give credit where it's due iandunt.substack.com/p/guest-post...

Someone really should commission this. The government’s official estimates are absolutely clear that new renewables are cheaper to build and operate than new gas power plants.

Will vote for any Prime Minister who can make train wifi a functioning reality rather than an enraging exercise in false advertising.

Same. HUGE gap between experts & everyone else. This was already expert consensus 2 years ago. Now? Trump's horrible & evil war have wrecked the perception of oil & gas as stable and cheap in the decade when solar, wind, batteries, EVs are SURGING worldwide www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/daw...

If you are a Councillor, please watch this. It happened nearly 50 years ago in the Netherlands. The arguments against restricting traffic were the same as those made today and were proven to be wrong. Many cities would greatly benefit from a circulation plan. youtu.be/bgKokpZMFnU?...

Holiday advice: It's pleasant to get a train to Europe. You just have to turn travelling into a core part of the holiday - lunch in Paris, dinner in Bordeaux, trip to Spain, week on beach etc. It's limiting, but very enjoyable & decent alternative to a flight you won't be able to afford by summer.

We're fighting to stop a filter being removed from one of Exeter's key strategic cycle routes, the E9 at Dryden Road. Removing the filter would allow nearly 4,000 cars a day back onto the route, with just paint for protection. Our Chair James explains the issues in these short videos👇🎥.

You should read this. It’s excellent communication & story-telling. “I’m driving less. I don’t want to see the world through a driver’s eyes any more. Before I began driving less, I had long had a melancholic sense that the city lifestyle I lived was cut off...” #UrbanTruth From @irishtimes.com

Trump’s Greenland speech at the WEF except it’s the voice of Pingu

As a rare climate scientist working in Silicon Valley, I've been drinking from the AI firehose a lot more than my peers. I thought it would be helpful to lay out my experiences of both the promise and pitfalls of using AI to accelerate scientific research:

If Bilbo had Chat GPT

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

Such a great idea for a project walzr.com/postal-arbit...

Wrote this in 2023 (reposted in 2024), and still think it one of the most prescient things I've ever written. takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/todays-emp...

Unbelievably, #DuvetKnowItsChristmas generates such good will on social media that over the years we've raised somewhere approaching a quarter of a million quid for homeless charities. If you can spare a bob or two, sling some to Centrepoint, and here's the link: www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...

Interesting, I think Exeter is probably stuck somewhere between steps 3 and 4 on this list...

Terrific piece this: very through going over the issues.

It takes a lot to impress me, but this is fucking impressive.

From a crewmember on yesterday's Teal 74 mission into now-Category 5 Hurricane #Melissa. As clear of an eye as you will see in the Atlantic basin.

This is just nonsense. If you accept climate change is happening and a problem (as Kemi supposedly does) then net zero (i.e. stopping adding more anthropogenic GHG into the atmosphere) is the only way to stop it. The alternative is denying well over 100 years of established physics

Looks like I picked the wrong day to work from home. (Although the coffee is better here)

Never thought I'd say this. It's gonna be harsh and might give you angry feelings when you see it. I've come up with one simple life rule: Never ever (I know you're gonna, but please don't) let yourself feel stupid when you look at the first words down the left side of this post

Today seems like a good day to remember that climate action is far cheaper than inaction, according to those lentil weavers at the OBR

Our economies need energy to run. Wind and solar are cheap, abundant sources of energy. They will never run out. They are almost miracles. Whichever country dominates in turbines and solar PV will become the most economically important. Right now, that's China.

Data centers use 2% of the world’s electricity. There’s a *huge* push to build more for AI. But even the most optimistic growth paths for AI predict it’ll drive less growth in energy demand than electric cars or aircon. It’s significant, but it’s not the biggest thing going on.

Fascinating list of the scientists who have saved the most lives, via @maxroser.bsky.social at @ourworldindata.org , 2 of the top 3 are food related: #1 - Haber & Bosch, for synthetic nitrogen (2.3 billion) #3 - Norman Borlaug, for high-yield crops (245 million) Data source: www.scienceheroes.com

As someone living in southwest England this feature is what really swings interrail passes as great value for rail trips to Europe, given that UK train fares to London alone can be pretty significant

I ran the numbers on the UK government's recommendation to delete old photos and emails to save water in data centers andymasley.substack.com/p/contra-the...

Nothing ever changes but the climate Thorts on a repought. diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2025/08/01/n...

Obviously there also is no such thing as drowning, since we know that we will die without enough water.

For anyone wondering, global sales of internal combustion vehicles peaked in 2018. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🔋 ourworldindata.org/data-insight...

ONS says the number of green jobs in the UK has grown by more than a third over the past decade. Renewables and green transport jobs have more than doubled. www.businessgreen.com/news/4516556...

The history of the countryside is that it is working land: it has always been the factory of the rural economy. Its historical purpose is not to look nice, that’s just a nice byproduct. Build the damn wind farms. (Happily, they don’t even ruin the visuals, imo. I like to see land at work.)

This is a great thread on where the world is now re climate change, the relevance of 1.5 and 2c levels of warming, and the importance of adaptation alongside mitigation