Full size nuclear power stations are an expensive long-term investment. Usually sited in coastal regions they (and/or their power distribution infrastructure) are vulnerable to inevitable sea level rise. If China's thorium fuelled SMRs prove successful they may offer & cheaper & speedier alternative

Hydrogen does not directly warm the climate, but interacts with OH to extend the life of CH4. "More hydrogen means fewer detergents [OH] in the atmosphere, causing methane to persist longer &, therefore, warm the climate longer" phys.org/news/2025-12... Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Christmas in #Florida. The struggle is real! Merry Christmas All! #christmas #weather

The mass media & social media under the ownership and/or control of self-serving billionaires has both "bought" government policy & captured the attention span of a huge portion of the masses in a relentless drive to eliminate free & independent thought & replace it with addictive consumerism.

Impossible to take Trump's war against drugs seriously when he has pardoned Juan Orlando Hernández, former president of Honduras. All indications are that Trump, with his willing army of unprincipled enablers, is unscrupulously using his Office for self-enrichment & thus he can be "bought"

China is clearly prolific at hurriedly constructing new infrastructure, but often the design & quality is substandard & corrupt State officials parasitize the funding for new builds & for post-construction maintenance. Today's vanity project might become tomorrow's neglected & derelict shell.

Not leaving many options. To drawdown an extra 1 billion tons of CO2 in 1 year, needs an extra ~45-100 billion mature trees in a land area the size of Finland. Ocean fertilisation doesn't require land-space, could enhance global oxygen levels & any risks are likely "safely manageable" ?

Why isn't the DoD defending the need to keep these structures intact ? They benefit the National Security as much as any military conglomerate.

The previous C.U.P. with Lord Adair was very interesting & informative.

edition.cnn.com/2025/12/16/p... Trump's ill conceived oil tanker blockade should be construed as an act of war against Venezuela ? No peace prize for Donny Dangerous then ?

The referenced article investigates how aerosols may also adversely affect the gaseous exchange flows in tropical forests.

Trumpolitics = Slash & Burn Politics. Enabled by the pseudo-science dogma of the Heritage Foundation, itself a tool of the fossil fuel lobby's policies.

The phrase "partying like there is no tomorrow" kinda sums up the business as usual of our world's present day ruling regimes characterised by comprising sociopathic, kleptocratic oligarchs. A deleterious consequence of the obscenely uneven distribution of material wealth.

youtu.be/nnmHdKjHgZI?... More hype or the onset of the breakthrough that surpasses all other quantum breakthroughs? " .. the coherence signatures we've seen from Willow suggest that quantum systems at this scale may be interacting with phenomena we have no theoretical framework to describe .. .."

Is there a corresponding chart of anomalous measurements compared to, say, the past 20+ years of data?

Why worry, Africa is breeding enough for the rest of us (even allowing for that continent's child mortality & climate extremes affecting food & water supply)? Its population is predicted to reach 2.5 billion by 2050 despite predictions of loss of habitability in numerous of its regions/countries

We need a renaissance of world leaders who are both competent and can understand and act upon rational advice. Instead the White House & the Kremlin are currently hell bent on propelling us into a new Dark Age of external & domestic conflict & a global strategy borrowed from the Risk board game.

Putin is playing Trump for the fool that he is.

The current spate of extreme max & min temperatures in the Middle East winter, demonstrates that regions don't exist in a global mean temperature situation (constructed by models). Those enduring the worst heat/drought face the reality of their region/nation becoming uninhabitable in mere decade(s)

Suggestive that the US under wilfully ignorant Trumpolitics has also slackened its vigilance & preparedness to defend against or neutralize potential biological warfare threats - which could be a terrorist or ideologue in a garage in downtown Manhattan and/or Washington DC.

Wilful ignorance & a reliance on "belief" systems over truthful fact. Despite monumental technological achievements, we haven't shaken off the internecine tribalism & rivalry of the other ape societies, & thus our species now faces self-inflicted decimation, or worse.

youtube.com/shorts/rH6nN... Scary stuff if you get into the wrong place at the wrong time

youtu.be/QibWyMXvwvM?... Patrick Boyle delivers the obituary to Musk's preposterous DOGE farce.

More unwelcome rain extremes for Washington State, currently under a flood state of emergency. Unfortunately, 2 more weeks of rain looks like progressing from emergency to crisis to catastrophe. Attribution: abnormally warm Pacific Ocean fuels warmer air holding unprecedented levels of water vapor

CENTRAL ASIA INSANE WARM NIGHT MINIMUMS up to 19C In Uzbekistan In the Mountains it was like a summer night MIN 13.0 Akrabat 1600m TAJIKISTAN HOTTEST WINTER NIGHT EVER 14.8 Isambaj 14 Parkhar 12.2 Kurgan Tjube KAZAKHSTAN Max. 15.2 Kamenskoe 1320m They should all be freezing!

Why have we seen such repression of climate activists around the world? Because activists were so successful in changing the narrative around fossil fuels

It is really strange to be watching the collapse of global civilisation in slow motion, hastened by the likes of Trump, Putin, their twisted enablers, billionaires, bankers & other outliers of the human race.

BRUTAL. This looks excruciating. #Midwest #cold #fyp #chicago #arctic

Such censorship is a ban on the freedom of expression (championed by MAGA-world) & supposedly protected by the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment, which protects diverse speech (with exceptions such as incitement, defamation, obscenity, & fraud which, clearly, Trumpolitics revels in !!! )

#Seattle area rivers are now nearing/ reaching historic levels, with over a foot of rain falling on higher elevations, cascading down the mountains and running off into rivers like #Snoqualmie which is forecast to crest Friday near a record high… 1/

The current ecologically destructive total global population will be adjusted downwards as we race past +2°C, when enforced (heat/drought/famine) cross-border attempted mass migration meets genocidal armed hostility. Perhaps then, "defensive" bio-warfare WMDs will become preferable to turkey shoots?

Science denial is a core foundation of Trumpolitics, manifested in an infantile philosophy of "if you can't see it doesn't exist". Dystopia beckons ever more hurriedly.

Generating wealth does keep economies ticking over, but is often gained by cruel exploitation of underpaid workers, & pocketing all the profits is the billionaires badge of sociopathy.

China has an appalling domestic human rights record, and behaves like a regional "neighbor from hell" yet somehow manages to apply a positive & responsible attitude towards its overall climate policy.

Everything is going crazy in the climate casino.

The quote, “Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad”, was first used by Rev William Anderson Scott' in his book "Daniel, a Model for Young Men" (1854). The gods must have taken his words as their cue to (again) give the world Donald Trump in 2025.

Trumpolitics has opened up a new era of geopolitical destabilisation, mistrust & regional uncertainties with his own brand of A.I. - viz "Autocratic Incompetence".

Susannah’s book questions what structures nations/civilization may need to meet the challenges of adaptation & survival in a +2°C world. Perhaps a natural follow-on to David Wallace-Wells 2017 New York Times article “The Uninhabitable Earth”, & Jem Bendell's “Deep Adaptation" literature from 2018?

Suggests climate scientists may overlook observational data because of a slavish belief in model outputs (which operate from inadequate & incomplete data inputs). Thus they've been unable to identify that self-reinforcing feedbacks & the Earth Energy Imbalance compound the rate of global warming ?

Worth watching. Yet I have to conclude that despite the huge wealth of scientific data & advice available to govts, our weak global response to a dire climate change crisis is because too many politicians are compromised by fossil fuel lobbyists (& clearly some leaders are wilfully ignorant too)

The euphoric hypomania that AI is gonna displace hundreds of millions of jobs worldwide is insane. How can AI generate mountains of extra wealth to provide a soft landing for the corresponding number of unemployed consumers? It will just make the super rich more power crazy & more sociopathic.

The inmates are still in charge of the asylum.

youtu.be/wi_DoCC1XC4?... Modern philosophy - I am with this guy.

🌎 Dec 7, 2025 🌍 🔥 3 | Avg. Guesses: 6.82 🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟩 = 11 globle-game.com #globle An unusual color outcome today.

The betting is on a 0.25% cut this month

For a more in-depth discussion on this nanoplastics and human health topic, please have a look at my talk today to the Canadian Club of Rome, Ottawa group. It’s about 45 minutes of me talking and then 45 minutes of Q and A… youtu.be/_RDRwCplrDk?...

Ironic that a caucasian expat living in Thailand under the grace of that foreign country, should be donating money to a UK party whose political platform includes kicking expats of dissimilar colour out of the UK. The perfidious toad and Member for Clacton is naturally delighted.

There will be more snowballs carried into the Senate by the village idiot.