Every week it goes on, every bit of the supply chain it spanners, it shaves off time at the end of oil's volume tail.
That's your positive message.
Now back to watching energy markets explode.
Charmouth Beach. Light brown sand in the foreground, muddy cliffs on the left, grey sea on the right and people and dogs walking on the sand
3 small, shiny bronze-coloured pyrite ammonites.
It was a foggy day at the beach, but I found these pyrite ammonites and some belemnites #fossils
Who doesn’t love seeing a supraglacial channel in winter? The ice shapes are amazing — frozen flows, bright blues, and patterns that show how glaciers move and melt. Nature at its coolest. #Glacier #Science #Glaciology
Grounding line retreat on West Antarctica, 1992-2025
Grounding lines and ice loss around Antarctica, 1992-2025
🧊Antarctica’s grounding lines have remained stable along most of the coast for 30 years — but not everywhere.
A new study using data from Copernicus Sentinel-1 and other missions shows retreat of up to 40 km in vulnerable regions, signaling future ice loss risk.
www.esa.int/Applications...
As a glaciologist, it is strange to realize that I can't go back to visit many of my past field sites, the memories are there, the ice is gone or soon to be gone. #ThwaitesGlacier #climategrief #glaciers #Antarctica
Which barely touches the sides under the current policies; there's still a huge backlog. The new policies would mean they'd need to expand staffing by around 300-400% just to stop the system from falling over. Considering the low rate of gun crime in the UK, it's a bad idea.
I don’t think it’s a very well thought out idea. Improving the firearms licensing departments (more staff, more training) would be a better approach because that is where the failure actually is. Giving those departments more work to do is just going to be a disaster.
The UK atmospheric research aircraft (the FAAM) will cease operations in one month's time due to a research 'pivot' by UKRI...
www.ukri.org/news/nerc-pi...
"Nature knows best" sounds wise. But we invented farming because nature didn't know best for growing crops. Pop ecology's tradeoff-free farming doesn't hold up to scrutiny. csanr.wsu.edu/pop-ecology/
How well can we quantify when 1.5 °C of global warming has been exceeded?
Open review until 11 March
essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es...
Eastgate replica at the EPCOT Center. A cream copy of the original, minus the weathervane. Tourists wearing shorts and t-shirts in the foreground. Narnia-style lampposts line the fake street.
A street view in Totnes, Devon, looking towards the historic East Gate. The central stone archway spans the road and contains a clock and a small belfry. Timber-framed Tudor-style buildings and various shops flank the narrow street.
Today I learnt that a bit of Totnes has been recreated at Disney World
How long before someone draws a Hitler moustache on Trump?
Our new paper on the future of the Antarctic Peninsula published today, showing how the various systems across the Peninsula will be impacted by different global warming scenarios.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...
I’m giving up for lent.
"When it comes to science, the White House could not have crafted a more effective America Last policy."
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@anjahuja.bsky.social
I might be being too cynical, but isn't knowing absolutely nothing at all an essential qualification for a job as a government minister?
Photo showing a tall, jagged ice front of the Ronne Ice Shelf in West Antarctica rising above the calm surface of the Weddell Sea. Credit: Torsten Albrecht / PIK.
🔔🚨 New Publication Alert!
Research has shown that the Antarctic Ice Sheet is a climate tipping element.
We found: it’s not one — it’s many.
📄 Paper (open access): www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📢 Press release: www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
Tread below 🧵👇
Get the Scalextric out?
📅 Save the date!
Join us on Saturday 21 March 2026 for a free, family-friendly open day as part of the Cambridge Festival lineup.
🎟️ Free tickets dropping soon - watch this space!
📍 British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0ET
🕙 21st March 10am - 4pm
The correct answer was “Pulp”
Skills are a big bottleneck to net zero. Over a 16 year house build we’ve seen: stoned plasterers, renderers who tried to render the house with cat poo, and roofers guessing timber lengths instead of measuring. And these were the ones who actually bothered to turn up.
Enjoyed Guy Martin’s House Without Bills: www.channel4.com/programmes/g...
“Academia is a lot like an open-world RPG: a role playing game in which you wander a world that initially seems full of endless possibility, but ultimately devolves into repeating the same actions over and over again for diminishing returns slowly consuming your days, evenings, and weekends.”
This cartoon of his lives rent free in my brain.
France has ended up in a strange position after using some €250bn of tax-payer money to build a fleet of nuclear power stations. Wind and solar power is merrily entering the French power market at prices nuclear production can't match, resulting in huge surpluses of power.
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A brilliant postdoc opportunity in beautiful Hobart. IMAS is a lovely place to work.
I hope the “Based on Dame Jilly Cooper’s Rutshire Chronicles“ means they’re going to do more books. The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous? #Rivals youtu.be/YeDy_JebCE0
