Your daily #Thwaites update 24.12.2025 2 photo -10 day GIF Some big changes are on the way Sea ice is breaking 🆙 near the bay #ClimateCrisis #cryosphere #Antarctica

The USS Unthinkable -

NCAR manages the Wyoming Supercomputing Center, where researchers from other institutions have access to high-performance computing resources (most recently Cheyenne and now Derecho) to model weather, climate, wildfires, air pollution, etc. Everyone is less safe if NCAR is dismantled.

🧪🧵 Future change to #ThwaitesGlacier, Antarctica constitutes the largest uncertainty in #sea-level rise forecasts. The Science Coordination Office of the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration recently issued a briefing document summarising some key findings - thwaitesglacier.org/findings

Your daily #Thwaites update 15.12.2025 3 photo-8 day GIF #ClimateCrisis #cryosphere #Antarctica

Free will God gave me free will. I didn't have a choice. Called to church each Sunday to thank him and rejoice. By John Grinsell

I wish more people were aware of this. Considering the scale of the threat, the media's near-silence is both remarkable and culpable. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Surely, in view of the impact this flu wave is having on the NHS, and the effect it will undoubtedly have on national productivity, an obvious and cost effective action would be to make the vaccine free to everyone immediately? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Your daily #Thwaites update 13.12.2025 2 photo-8 day GIF of the area Sea ice is now breaking 🆙 quickly But the bay is not 🆓....yet #ClimateCrisis #cryosphere #Antarctica

Your daily #Thwaites update 13.12.2025 The crack in "the bay" has turned into 2 large cracks and they are now connected to the patch of open water Sea ice is crumbling quickly and extensively outside the bay, especially North of the area #ClimateCrisis #cryosphere #Antarctica

Your daily #Thwaites update 13.12.2025 Action is on the way as more open water becomes visible Sea ice around the bay is also crumbling #ClimateCrisis #cryosphere #Antarctica

Merry Christmas I sold my soul to Santa but it's much too soon to tell. If an everlasting Christmas is preferable to hell. By John Grinsell

Your daily #Thwaites update 01.12.2025 A 2 photo GIF of the action the last 3 days ... Interesting times are on the way #ClimateCrisis #cryosphere #Antarctica

The animation shows that we are watching the final stages in the demise of the Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf, as has been predicted in several studies, for example: doi.org/10.5194/tc-1... doi.org/10.5194/tc-2... doi.org/10.5194/tc-1...

"If Britain wants to recover, the first step is to stop pretending everything is fine. The second is to recognise that reconnecting with Europe may not be a political choice anymore, but an economic necessity."

If you've bashed your head against a door 30 times and it hasn't budged it's probably time to rethink your approach to getting through it.

Max This mad rambunctious beagle. Lost but now feels found. All it took was education to be no ordinary hound. By John Grinsell

Your daily #Thwaites update 10.11.2025 Small move for the small icebergs in the melange Still too much sea ice #ClimateCrisis #cryosphere #Antarctica

UK subsidises energy prices in other countries. Investors, state entities from Canada, France, Germany, Spain, Israel, Italy, Korea, Norway, UAE & the US own most of UK energy sector. £514bn operating profit since 2020. Profits/Dividends go abroad. Britons pay the price of privatisation dogma.

Always looking at the seasonal clock of the flower patch - Wanstead, Plymouth and Penzance gigs are sold out - tickets still available for Tiverton, Dartmouth and Budleigh Salterton Robinince.com

The Palmer, in use since 1992, “hosted two helicopters and up to 45 researchers, and made daring visits to the Thwaites “doomsday” Glacier in West Antarctica. The ship provided a home base for autonomous vehicles mapping the currents below the ice and helicopter access to its perilous ice shelf.”

US to end funding for our only ship monitoring the Thwaites Glacier, the so-called “doomsday” glacier located in a remote region of West Antarctica. www.science.org/content/arti...

Lovely gig, tonight, in Aberfeldy. Dundee, next, then Kinross, Belfast, Dublin and more. Full itinerary and tickets at www.deanfriedman.com

The state of the USA. "“This is not about preventing crime. It’s about political theater and federal control.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/u...

Brothers Einstein. A scientist the world should thank. Not so much his brother Frank. By John Grinsell #poetry #poetrycommunity #Einstein

Make America Cruel Again It only took lardass 6 months to do so. 😡😡😡 www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/six-mon...

From April 2027 govt will take back the huge tax breaks on pension money that is not spent before death bit.ly/4o94kMu avoiding the tax is easy - leave to spouse or spend it! That’s what it’s for. NB the 90% tax only affects some with a £2m+ home left to kids/grandkids

Security tightens as Donald Trump plays golf at Turnberry. We let in Felons coming on private planes even when they threaten rule of law, NATO, Canada, Greenland, Gaza, Panama, rule-based global trade. Security cost borne by the public purse. Only if we had a felon tariff!

🚨How Britain privatised itself into failure.🚨 Britain outsourced its state – now private firms profit while public services crumble. 
In 'Failed State', Sam Freedman explains what went wrong.

Social media lies can kill bit.ly/41aML4V thanks to great medical care Cairo survived. Others don’t. And those that do, use scarce NHS resources.

Global warming is not inevitable at all. We know how to reverse it. Bigots deny the reality global warming, and work to accelerate it while enduring painful consequences themselves.

Sunday morning A lazy Sunday morning. In bed with my sweet Jane. Who wouldn't want the sun to shine when you think it looks like rain. By John Grinsell #poetry #poetrycommunity #sunday

🪨 Land is drying, and fast A new study finds that the world's continents have been losing freshwater since 2002, faster than ever before. Dry areas are drying quicker than wet areas are wetting, shrinking water supplies and raising sea levels. 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #SciComm 🧪

Good crowd for Wreckless Eric at Latitude

she is a fragile fragment of who she could have been had they not unspooled her threads or picked apart so many of her stitchings but still she makes her life a holy thing fallen knees and clasping hands a well worn worshipping of her fate’s fabric she is a sacred making that can never be undone

OMG. This is so awful.

Your annual reminder…

A new mural in France depicting Lady Liberty covering her face in shame was unveiled one day before America's Independence Day.

📖 1) Bob the Robin - Tony Putman. A gentle and light read about a gardener befriending robins.

YIKES ! 😱 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

30 years ago, over 8,000 Bosniak men and boys were murdered in the Srebrenica genocide. Today, politicians will say "never again". But they are letting it happen, again, in Gaza. We remember all victims of genocide, and vow to build a world that respects the humanity of all.

Wow. In under 24 hours, 200,000 people have signed up to build a real alternative to poverty, inequality and war. Something special is happening - be part of it at yourparty.uk.

AOC Graduated Cum Laude from Boston University,Loser Chump.....