Terrific to host @hughhunt.bsky.social this evening for our Global Goals annual-ish lecture. Excellent talk, but superb audience questions! 👏

We are going to stop burning stuff. The health benefits ALONE make this worth it.

Everything is awful but the creativity behind some of these handmade posters gives me a glimmer of hope in humanity.

In 2000 95% of Poland's electricity was from coal. Today it is 51%. Total coal generation in TWh dropped by 36%. Source is new @ember-energy.org European Electricity Review.

How hot could the climate get? We don't know exactly - "we've never kicked the Earth this hard." 'But this doesn't mean that we know nothing!' Far more than 1.5⁰C @drkatemarvel.bsky.social on #TheClimateQuestion #BBCWorldService #ClimateChange #GlobalHeating #ClimateEmergency #GeographyTeacher

They could clone dinosaurs, but they brace gates the wrong way round…

As one student nurse in England faces £77 thousand in debt Scotland’s free training and bursary means TWICE as many train to then give us 50% more nurses in hospitals and lower mortality rates talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/01/23/a...

Happy World Education Day folks! 🥂 to all educators everywhere.

Horsley (Derbyshire) Council By-Election Result: 🌍 GRN: 43.6% (+16.7) ➡️ RFM: 35.5% (+0.6) 🌳 CON: 13.9% (-9.0) 🌹 LAB: 3.8% (-6.5) ☑️ ADV: 1.9% (New) 🔶 LDM: 1.4% (-2.0) No Ind (-1.7) as previous. Green GAIN from Reform. Changes w/ 2025.

Trump: "I haven't been able to find any windfarms in China." Reality: China has far more windfarms than any other country on Earth

Tee hee! But probably true.

"The Trump administration’s new dietary guidelines urging Americans to eat far more meat and dairy products will, if followed, come at a major cost to the planet via huge swathes of habitat razed for farmland and millions of tons of....emissions" Pure insanity www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I missed this piece from @chrisgrey.bsky.social last Friday. Brexit & Brexitism: Enemies within and without chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/01/enem... Prof Grey reminds us what an utter disaster Farage as PM would be. The consequences would make Brexit look like a minor admin problem.

@aptera.us my students need solar cars on the road! The exam board won’t accept this answer (yet!). Are you nearly ready to roll?

Step by step, we are electrifying everything and cutting energy sourced by inefficiently burning fossil fuels - with all associated negative effects. And the cost of power is less than it would otherwise be.

Change is happening!

War is a backdrop to US politics now - here are 2 mins on some military relevant things that flew under the radar last week youtube.com/shorts/QVWIS...

Carbon dioxide (CO₂) averaged about 427 ppm in December 2025 10 years ago December averaged about 402 ppm Data available at gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/

Nadhim Zahawi - yet another failed Con - has defected to ReformUK. Zahawi was Chancellor for about 10 minutes during the final Johnson chaos. He got ejected from politics after being caught in a tax scandal. Here’s me beating him in live BBC debate: youtu.be/hTY3W0dbq_s?... (Do share)

Let’s celebrate Science!

This looks concerning.

Tree bark has a total surface area similar to all of the land area on Earth. It is home to a wide range of microbial species unknown to science, and they can either take up or emit gases that have a warming effect on the climate. www.newscientist.com/article/251...

Indubitably! By then global oil demand should start falling, along with the price. We have to stop burning stuff - and will be awash with cheap oil when we really start.

Like they ran Iraq and Afghanistan. What could possibly go wrong?

The man is straight up insane.

UK newspapers can’t stop talking about net zero. But where’s the mention of climate change? Britain’s most dominant media outlets are failing to “join the dots” between net zero and climate change, as researchers call out wave of “problematic” coverage www.euronews.com/green/2025/...

News to me. Most people worry about how reindeer fly. Bet he’d had his Weetabix! 🎅 “St Nicholas became the patron saint of children, after he revived three boys who had been murdered, pickled and put in a barrel.”

Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year: The unstoppable rise of renewable energy | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

This is very good. If Reform win the GE, it'll be too late for those who voted for them to say, like this disillusioned Reform member: "I thought they were going to come and change everything. And all they’re doing is coming in and tearing people’s lives apart.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...?

They used to "laugh and call him names." Now they're all dead

Phenomenal read. Tragedy writ large. If I know humans, collectively we will learn little from 2016 and will make things worse. Watch…

Ah.

Budget Day Surprise…

I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"

The most on-the-money statement you’ll read today.

Just realised this is referring to a church in North Carolina and not the Welsh singer

It’s hard to decarbonise, unless we all do it.

Imagine objecting to this.

Buy 3 get 1 free. What physics department could resist!

"We may cry for the environment, the vulnerable, the homeless, but those tears fall in equity-shaped droplets." Buladh bos do Colin Sheridan, this piece is exquisite 👏 www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu... #Speirgorm #IrishPol

⚡️ Physics teachers! Always worth teaching about the drop from 240 to 230 V, but this is new! www.efixx.co.uk/Articles/Pro...

Critically important article finds the Windows man guilty of inventing his own reality. Science doesn’t care about wealth.

How should we represent humankind to aliens? In the 1970s, Nasa fell short. Next time, we must do better

Apparently, it's the International Day of Medical Physics next week www.iomp.org/idmp-2025/ so in tutor time we'll be celebrating our (one and only) Nobel-Prize winning alumnus Sir Godfrey Hounsfield en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfrey... @drwilkinsonsci.bsky.social

Me discussing how Trump is weaponising his Justice Dept to attack his enemies "Justice is meant to be about "here's a crime, let's find out who did it and prosecute them", but instead Trump is saying "here's the person I want to prosecute, find me the crime".

Ofgem should use firms’ windfall profits to fund energy debt relief, say MPs The ESNZ Committee called it “completely inexcusable” that households are forced to choose between eating and heating while companies behind Great Britain’s gas pipes and power lines amass huge profits. buff.ly/5sLZDJD

🎶 We all live in a Brexit tragedy… 🎶

I'll be on #BBC News in the 4pm ET hour speaking to presenters Annita McVeigh and Caitriona Perry about climate change-supercharged cat 5 hurricane #Melissa as it tragically bears down on Jamaica: www.bbc.com/news/live/cv...

Bill Gates sure picked an interesting day to downplay the threat of climate change

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