Is the behaviour of the US crowd at the Ryder Cup and their team a metaphor for Trump’s America: loud, loutish, disrespectful … losers!

Near the end of my talk on heat pumps I want to step write back. Looking back in fact from, say, 2500 CE with this graphic I just made ... #Energysky #Climatesky

Just reposting this piece on my personal experience with installation of an Air-Source Heat Pump into an 1805 Grade 2 Listed Georgian house (I have added an update note not on the project but on Catapult Dec '24 study findings) essaysconcerning.com/2023/03/29/h... 1/2 #Energysky #Heatpump

I am working on a talk ('Everything you wanted to know about heat pumps but was afraid to ask') for a local climate group. I though I'd step back early in talk to give a perspective on heating in England since its birth. What do you think? 1/2 #Energysky #Heatpumps

Nick Watts having a bit of a mare on BBC Newsnight, being schooled twice on things he’s miss said.

Late to it (it's a busy "Welcome Week" at @qmul.bsky.social) but, as per, our honorary degree holder @stephenkb.bsky.social absolutely nails it. (Source www.ft.com/content/fbbd...)

I was asked the perennial question 'How can we predict the climate in 25 years when we can't even predict the weather reliably in 4 weeks time?', answered by climate scientists many times. Here is my attempt for a lay audience using loaded dice as an analogy essaysconcerning.com/2025/09/04/l...

To prove it's possible, a region of Germany cut itself off from the national grid & ran its own regional standalone grid purely on renewable energy & batteries. No nuclear, no fossils.

I love the double path on Rodborough Common that sweeps around the curved hill above The Street. A little piece after this morning’s walk. #rodboroughcommon

🚨 After hitting 1000 authoritarian actions last week on the TrumpActionTracker, we are now at almost *1050*. No rest for the wicked it seems. www.trumpactiontracker.info?start=2025-0...

Besides the theatre of live recording of European leaders at the White House, one aspect that may have gone uncommented on is that Trump’s love of bilateral transactional relations has morphed into a multilateral conversation. Loved Finnish PM final remarks on “ending Russia’s war of aggression.”

Bye bye coal

Well, it went so well last time it was tried

I'd strongly recommed 'Climate Injustice: Why We Need to Fight Global Inequality to Combat Climate Change' by Prof. Friederike Otto that take a fresh look at how we think, talk, and should act - particularly on heat related impacts. guardianbookshop.com/climate-inju... @frediotto.bsky.social

Lovely walk around Uley Bury with Marilyn and Tilly this morning. Really struck by the view of the fields and Stinchcombe Hill towards Severn. Here’s a wee pencil sketch.

Now that's the kind of boldness we need from the UK building sector; none of this pussying around putting up 100 homes with an option for PV but still gas pipes galore. No, 8,500 fully electrified for heating, cooking, driving and everything else.

New all-electric town in Kent strikes deal to supply power back to the grid

Another important note: Trump is directing NASA to prematurely destroy the two satellite missions that are the gold standard of carbon emissions observations and measurements: gizmodo.com/trump-admini...

Polluter and cyber elites - a lethal alignment? Save the date for our next free annual online conference. 📅 Wednesday 15th October, 2025 🕜16:00 -18:00 BST We will be sharing more information on our speaker line up in the coming weeks… www.sgr.org.uk/events/pollu... 🧪

So on FB there is a powerful essay attributed to Lyle Fass entitled ‘Why America Is Like This’ but I can find no source for it or even an identifiable writer of that name. It’s reached meme status. Does it matter if it expresses a truth that people want to share? m.youtube.com/shorts/OtrPk...

BBC Radio 4 Today this morning had an interview with Howard Kakita, a survivor of the Hiroshima bomb, who gave a moving testimony of his and his family’s experiences and his work to stop proliferation and seek denuclearisation globally. 1/

This is such an incredible poster.

The only time that MAGA cheered on a black female, but even then, they contrived to back a loser. Turns out Mother Sun is already a winner.

Deranged dear leader calming things down. Oh this makes me feel so reassured. No parody is off limits in a Trumpian universe. No reality either.

So Shell PR is at it again. Another advert suggesting they are investing in a green future while keeping the lights on today. The latest TV add I saw on 26th July was another masterclass in GASlighting. Wind turbines and text saying "11.37% included low-carbon energy solutions" 1/

So we in the UK are flying in low value non perishable goods from China instead of shipping them, and the Sky news coverage is framing it as a dodging tariffs story. What about a ‘massive increase in carbon footprint of imported goods story’? Maybe European Cargo should be renamed European Carbon!

Well knock me down with a feather. Is the editor on holiday?

By gosh. Israel Government Spokesman David Mencer completely losing it being interviewed by Nick Robinson on BBC Radio 4 Today. Unable to answer a question without turning it into an attack, or character assassination. A master class in how to win friends and influence people, not.

This graph is astonishing. The people that bang on about “natural birth” and “women have been doing this forever without help” need to be forced to stare at this until their eyes water.

I've added a 'sketchbooks' tab to my art website … www.richarderskineart.com/sketchbooks

Is climate inaction the new denial? I wrote this in response to the resistance to getting green infrastructure built, and those pressing UK Govt to water down its infrastructure bill. A false dichotomy is being argued between energy infrastructure and nature essaysconcerning.com/2025/07/20/i...

We were told nuclear's cost problem resulted from not building enough reactors to the same design. Sizewell C - if it goes ahead - would be the 7th and 8th of EDF's EPR design. Any ecomodernists out there want to hazard a guess as to what N is needed to deliver Nth-of-a-kind cost savings?

"The scale of this heat event is so vast that hundreds of temperature records could fall across Northern Europe in the coming week, from the Nordic countries to the Arctic fringes. Heat alerts are now in effect or imminent across much of the region, & public health officials are urging preparedness"

How to prevent accidential data leaks? One way is to ban attachments. Spreadsheet attachments are a symptom of dysfunctional IT. www.trustedknowledge.org 1/

Another day, and another massively harmful and costly leak lnkd.in/ez67CrDu Something I discuss in my book 'Trusted Knowledge in a digital and fragmented world of work' www.trustedknowledge.org ... 1/

UK news coverage: - Good news: the coverage of heatwaves is drawing the link with climate change 👏 - Bad news: there seems to be a lot of surprise at this! 🐘 Maybe it's the heat, but it triggered me to write this: essaysconcerning.com/2025/07/12/t... #Climatesky @channel4news.bsky.social #BBC

Garbage In, Garbage Out remains true

Great piece by Katherine Bourzac celebrating 100 years since Heisenberg’s monumental paper that finally cut the umbilical cord that physicists had tried to maintain with a quasi-classical approach to quantum theory. www.aps.org/apsnews/2025... @bourzac.bsky.social 1/

Today, I’m supporting the nationwide day of action calling on the richest to #PAYUP. Billionaire wealth has increased 1000% since the 1990s. There is no excuse to plunge thousands into poverty through cuts and underfunding. The money is there - time to tax it fairly.

We have built another concentration camp, in Florida. Are things getting bad yet? … was posed on FB Reminds me of the ecological phenomenon ‘shifting baseline syndrome’. 1/

I hope everyone on this website thinks very carefully about this graph and then considers whether or not they need to reorder their priorities at all.

My critique of Jean-Baptiste Fressoz’s book 'More and More and More – An All-Consuming History of Energy' ... 'More and More, and Surprisingly, Less' essaysconcerning.com/2025/06/25/m... #Energysky #Climatesky

Horrific. So much for free speech. Silencing the messenger won't make the impacts go away.

Sky at Night - BBC 4 tonight at 21.50 - celebrates the 350th birthday of Royal Observatory Greenwich, and we get to talk about time and black holes. It's genuinely a great episode - please watch. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

UK fossil fuel subsidies were £17.5b last year, and renewables subsidies £1.5b. Lots of chatter also on winter fuel allowance (£1.5b) and relaxing 2 child limit (£3.5b). Why does the first never get mentioned on MSM but the other 3 talked in terms of ‘how do we pay for it?’.

At monthly ‘climate corner’ at local library I ran a ‘Net Zero Quiz’ prompted by claims on affordability. I used 10 bowls with rice equiv annual spend, from £1.5 to 330 billion out of GDP of about 3000 b. The visitors had to place labelled categories in right order. 1/ @ed-milliband.bsky.social

The nightmare of Trump's science denial, and rejection of clean energy will fade within a matter of years, the long term "threat multiplier" of man-made global warming (how the US military used to frame it) will continue … for centuries.

You will hear claims that the UK's Net Zero goal is the cause of higher electricity prices; that the lights won’t stay on during windless winter days; or that it will cost more than we can possibly afford. This piece counters these claims … www.nailsworthcan.org/net-zero-myt... #Climatesky #Netzero

So the climate denial machine is in full swing following the collapse of a glacier wiping out of a village in the Swiss alps. My response: 1/

Ok evolutionary biologists … I have a neighbour who is a book collector and has a 1st edition of Darwin’s book ‘The expression of emotions in man and animals’ -what do you reckon it might be worth or of interest to? Feels like a steal. As an alumnus of @darwincollegecam.bsky.social it caught my eye