Spending some time reading a good book may be more worthwhile than spending that time on Twitter.

Back in the day physicists used to write spoof papers to prank social science journals. Now they just need to throw in some chatbot prompts. Progress!

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Another excellent event coming up in Exeter. Ben Rawlence is giving a talk to launch his new book. This Wednesday, 7pm, Bookbag book shop, Arcade, Fore Street. bookbag.shop/blogs/events...

This is going to be great! @gsiexeter.bsky.social presents @thierryaaron.bsky.social 'Cassandra's Children: Scientific Responsibility in an Era of Climate Emergency’. Thursday 21st May 14:30-15:30 Streatham Court Lecture Theatre B & Online. Register👇 forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...

Imagine this was a Jewish person who wasn't left-wing or pro-Palestinian.

Just an FYI. While I am not shipping to the US, I can ship to Europe (UK included) for prices that are pretty reasonable and all my prices are in #$CAD so you get over 40% off just with exchange.

In case you missed it, there is an Open Letter about the STFC funding crisis from the UK Exoplanet Research Community. uk-exoplanet-openletter.github.io/index.html

England’s local election results made the case for electoral reform in the most brutal way possible: winners on barely 20% of the vote. The path of least resistance to PR is obvious: just use MMP. I’ve written up why, with an interactive model of 2024 under MMP jack-bailey.co.uk/writing/just...

Spain’s power prices have flipped. A decade ago, Spain was a solar cautionary tale & high-cost market. Now among Europe’s cheapest. Gas decline is part of the story, but not the whole picture. More tomorrow: janrosenow.substack.com

Several things true at once 1) Labour losing to everyone in every direction. Reform (with Green assistance eating into Lab vote) wiping Labour out in places Lab has always dominated 2) They’re often doing so on small %es of vote, rewarded by highly fragmented electorate. FPTPdoing the rest…

A please @labouruk.bsky.social, stop saying that it's up to us to stop Reform. YOU could stop a Reform government in 2029, by introducing the proportional representation so many in the country have been clamouring for. The only way Farage can win is through our crazy first-past-the-post system.

🇪🇸 Spain's electricity in 2000: 56% fossil, 2% solar & wind. By 2026: 44% solar & wind, just 17% fossil. The crossover came in 2023. Gas now sets the price only 15% of the time vs 89% in Italy. More in my forthcoming Substack newsletter 👇 janrosenow.substack.com

This is going to be great! @gsiexeter.bsky.social presents @thierryaaron.bsky.social 'Cassandra's Children: Scientific Responsibility in an Era of Climate Emergency’. Thursday 21st May 14:30-15:30 Streatham Court Lecture Theatre B & Online. Register👇 forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...

In our recently published paper in @natcomms.nature.com (lnkd.in/gDyWxM7U), we provide a comprehensive #global assessment of how #urban #trees mitigate the #airtemperature (AT) #UrbanHeatIsland (UHI) effect, and how they stack up against future #climatechange related #warming. [1/n]

Local opposition to data centres increased given large amounts of energy & water they consumed. State response was legislation making data centres ‘critical national infrastructure’ & overruling local planning rules. In-person protests were suppressed. www.technosphere.earth/the-world-th...

Ignoring community opposition, Box Elder County, Utah, has approved a 9 GW data center campus powered by onsite fossil gas. Utah as a whole currently uses 4 GWs. Also: the developers have rights to 13K acre-feet of water in this water-stressed region, most of which will be used by the gas plants.

Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.

the wonders of battery storage - Australia battery installations surge, now it is less exposed to fossil fuel volatility, sees lower gas use, lower electricity prices, and less need for new transmission www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

German SPD, Greens, and Linke will stop posting on X. An important step and signal. X and its owner have long become a megaphone for the far right, a venue that is actively used to encourage abuse and violence. It‘s simply shameful how many in politics, media, and academia still actively post there.

"The process of relocating people from New Orleans [~360,000 residents] should start immediately, as the city has reached a 'point of no return' that will see it surrounded by the ocean within decades due to the climate crisis, a stark new study has concluded."

This is extraordinary, even for today's politics. What the hell are they playing at?

This, more than the original, is art. An intensely rich text

"Combined with solar and a smart time-of-use tariff, a heat pump results in what Mars Mlodzinski, lead author of The Ultimate Guide to Heat Pumps, describes as a “holy trinity”, offering “resilience and control in an energy landscape that often feels uncertain”. "

It's quite something to see centre/right wing politicians & attendant media accuse a Jewish man of antisemitism. There are many issues to take up with the insurgent Green Party. Why focus on this one?

FRIENDS Here's my great big story about my experiences deep in the guts of the "wind turbine syndrome" debate. What I fucked up, what I learnt, and what it tells me about the growing fears around data centres and inaudible "infrasound" Make some tea, sit down, have a read (thread coming later) ❤️

Take the bus or train? Cycle? Walk more? Car share? Nope none of those. And nothing about using this moment to push for policies that both reduce energy costs and climate impacts.

The ice loss of the Greenland Ice Sheet is hard to grasp! This is what the 30 million tonnes of ice that Greenland loses every hour looks like, if it were positioned next to the Eiffel tower before melting:

The Trump administration fired all 22 members of the independent National Science Board—undermining oversight, accountability, and transparency at the National Science Foundation. Scientific integrity depends on evidence, not politics. Learn more via @ucs.org: blog.ucs.org/gretchen-gol...

Oh no a huge number of professional scientists are copy-pasting fabricated information into their work, how can we possibly figure out how to stop this www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Important thread! But TL; DR? See:

My latest for Technosphere Earth. The forces driving us to a tech dystopia + a new tipping points paper + some thoughts on the energy crisis. www.technosphere.earth/the-world-th...

Staff at Southampton Solent University are being threatened with the sack if they do not sign new employment contracts that would come with drastically smaller pensions. c.org/dNr2SxwZBX

New paper: "This research examines the complex interplay between fossil fuel funding, corporate capture, and academic integrity in higher education, uncovering how public discourse frames industry funding as a mechanism of climate obstruction and delay" link.springer.com/article/10.1...

My latest for Technosphere Earth. The forces driving us to a tech dystopia + a new tipping points paper + some thoughts on the energy crisis. www.technosphere.earth/the-world-th...

Excellent news! We now have the gas needed to power all these new data centres!

You can thank a secret £5m donation from a billionaire in Thailand for the fact that Farage is in parliament www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Europe is the fastest-warming continent: over half a degree C per decade; double the global average! It's already 2.5°C warmer than in pre-industrial times here. From @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social European State of the Climate 2025: climate.copernicus.eu/esotc/2025/w...

Damn.

Anyone interested in national security should be interested in batteries. Because the entire fossil fuel system is based on an energy flow. Who gets to control this flow has a huge lever to apply to other nationals. This system is breaking down before our eyes. Renewables should be emancipatory.

No, solar panels aren't constantly oozing toxins. These and other myths the fossil-fuel industry would like you to believe about solar are easily debunked. Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Good to see this new report from bank J.P. Morgan on deep uncertainty about climate change & tipping points. One way it could significantly reduce this uncertainty is by stopping being the world's largest funder of oil & gas. jpmorgan.celero.site/s/ab29c67c/c... bank.green/banks/jpmorg...

To hold temp rise to 2c we have to cut emissions by 7-8 % annually. A few years ago it was 5%. Realistically we’ve blown 2C & are headed for 4-5c. Because emissions are rising, every year we don’t slow ff use & production, the amount we have to reduce yearly increases to avoid ‘real bad shit’

WOW: The UAE’s decision to quit OPEC looks like one of the biggest crude producers joining the “peak oil demand” camp. Here’s why: 🧵

🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did on J6 🩸🩸🩸 THIS IS WHAT AN INSURRECTION LOOKS LIKE ⬇️⬇️⬇️

"Our results show that non-survivable conditions are occurring during present-day heat events, all of which are below 35oC wet-bulb temperature. Of concern is regular exceedances of deadly thresholds for older people directly exposed across all events. " #ClimateEmergency