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Robin Curtis

@planetkooler

Long term energy player. In more recent decades in deep geothermal and ground source heat pumps - throughout UK. Decarbonisation - mainly of heat. Responsible for: https://planetcooler.pythonanywhere.com/static/CO2Reg0.html. Personal linterest in #LongCovi

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Why Your Next Flight Is Likelier to Hit Turbulence With climate change, the skies are becoming bumpier. Can today’s planes still keep us safe?

Interesting to find that the subject of turbulence has been featured in the @newyorker.com

Why Your Next Flight Is Likelier to Hit Turbulence www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

08.03.2026 16:27 πŸ‘ 534 πŸ” 177 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 10

Ouch......

08.03.2026 17:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

....mmmm something else to be wary of...... #privacy

08.03.2026 17:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This iceberg was once the biggest in the world. Now it has just weeks left - BBC News A23a was once twice the size of Greater London but now its 40-year journey is coming to an end.

Lovely story on the BBC about iceberg a23a, which has given us decades of fun but is now nearing its end…

Really enjoyed talking with Mark Poynting about this one-time behemoth.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

07.03.2026 07:57 πŸ‘ 62 πŸ” 30 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 3
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This is incredibly on point.

Spot oil prices grab the news, but it’s the impact we’re about to witness to petrochemical and derivative production that should really scare the shit out of folks.

It’s the sort of shock that could ripple through our global industrial economy for many months.

08.03.2026 15:25 πŸ‘ 393 πŸ” 219 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 34
Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms - Acoustic Guitar Cover by Kfir Ochaion - Emerald Guitars
Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms - Acoustic Guitar Cover by Kfir Ochaion - Emerald Guitars YouTube video by Kfir Ochaion

Much different than Dire Straits but beautiful. Needed this for our Sunday morning...
youtu.be/w-OfUq5HXX8?...

08.03.2026 13:24 πŸ‘ 2498 πŸ” 537 πŸ’¬ 148 πŸ“Œ 52
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'Hell to break loose' - Basingstoke under threat from Asian hornets coming from M3 BASINGSTOKE is under threat from killer hornets invading the town, travelling along the M3 from places such as Southampton and Portsmouth.

Invasion of Asian hornets into UK is driven by climate change ... and warmer weather in UK...rising temperatures allow hornets to thrive …

www.basingstokegazette.co.uk/news/2589886...

08.03.2026 17:00 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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08.03.2026 12:48 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump Finds Jaw-Dropping Way to Disrespect His Own War Dead The president’s shocking move came during the dignified transfer of six U.S. service members.

β€œOn Trump’s head sat a gold-embroidered white hat with the letters β€˜USA’ on the front, β€˜45-47’ on one side, and the American flag on the other.

The $55 cap is available to purchase on the president’s merch website.”

www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...

08.03.2026 14:48 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 4
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β€˜A very dangerous person’: alarm as Pete Hegseth revels in carnage of Iran war Critics say brash, bombastic Fox News host out of his depth to guide US military through murky new Middle East conflict

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

08.03.2026 12:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Does everyone know this stuff ? Explains a lot #IranWar

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Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El NiΓ±o

It doesn’t matter whether the rate of global warming is increasing. It’ll never cease to amaze me that people don’t care that it’s happening at all. It should be the most alarming thing ever.

07.03.2026 10:34 πŸ‘ 4257 πŸ” 1646 πŸ’¬ 67 πŸ“Œ 122
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Dozens killed as Israeli special forces raid Lebanese village in search of 40-year-old remains Overnight, one Israeli operation saw at least 41 people killed and 40 injured, according to the Lebanese health ministry.

The vile absurdity of it all.

08.03.2026 07:12 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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BREAKING: The US has bombed Tehran’s main refinery and burning oil is now flooding down the streets into the city’s sewers.

This is a vision from hell, unleashed by the US tonight.

(πŸŽ₯ Vahid Online)

08.03.2026 01:10 πŸ‘ 9433 πŸ” 5682 πŸ’¬ 961 πŸ“Œ 1045

Just in case you don’t know what Christian Nationalism, promoted by Pete Hegseth and Co, is and how deeply scary it is…

08.03.2026 07:47 πŸ‘ 36 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

What part of stay firmly out of Trump's mess doesn't Keir Starmer get. He started out with the right words but he is gradually drifting towards complicity in a war crime that will cause damage for years.

08.03.2026 07:50 πŸ‘ 28 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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They've gone and shrinkflationed a dozen ..

08.03.2026 07:55 πŸ‘ 89 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 9

A man without a shred of self-awareness.

08.03.2026 08:03 πŸ‘ 36 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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This is insane.

Blair is the last person who should be piping up.

07.03.2026 21:52 πŸ‘ 1229 πŸ” 209 πŸ’¬ 128 πŸ“Œ 38

Exactly. And Trump can’t cope with Starmer’s probity because it makes it harder to hide his own culpability re the war in Iran.

08.03.2026 08:16 πŸ‘ 1036 πŸ” 183 πŸ’¬ 36 πŸ“Œ 2
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International Women's Day: The home is the most dangerous place

On International Women's Day, domestic violence charity Refuge reveals women are most at risk at home to shatter dangerous misconceptions.

08.03.2026 08:16 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Overshoot: a new podcast about a world beyond 1.5Β°C – trailer

The world missed its goal for tackling climate change

What happens next?

That's the question I'm asking in a new documentary series

We uncover the fantasies that brought us here and meet the people with ideas to navigate what's next

Listen to the trailerπŸ‘‡

open.spotify.com/episode/2ICK...

01.10.2025 09:25 πŸ‘ 44 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 5

#1 Ride a bike

08.03.2026 01:03 πŸ‘ 331 πŸ” 36 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 1

Amazing to hear the continued arrogance of the way UK media talk about Iran and the need for regime change. How about talking for the need for regime change in Trump's America, Netanyahu's Israel & Iran?

07.03.2026 23:22 πŸ‘ 59 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

🚨On Tuesday the Prime Minister will order MPs to vote to undermine and restrict a fundamental cornerstone of our democracy - the right to trial by jury. It’s a move that will set us on a path to toward authoritarian justice.

MPs must step up and tell him NO

08.03.2026 08:22 πŸ‘ 150 πŸ” 72 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 3
A cartoony style illustration from the 1980s ladybird Children’s Classics version of the tale, showing Mole and Ratty rowing on the river

A cartoony style illustration from the 1980s ladybird Children’s Classics version of the tale, showing Mole and Ratty rowing on the river

On this day 8th March 1859 Kenneth Grahame, author of Wind in the Willows, was born in Edinburgh

Artist: Martin Aitchison (1983)

08.03.2026 08:12 πŸ‘ 486 πŸ” 95 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 6
The Remarkable Science of Sound | Sound Waves: The Symphony of Physics | BBC Earth Science
The Remarkable Science of Sound | Sound Waves: The Symphony of Physics | BBC Earth Science YouTube video by BBC Earth Science

Well, look at that. My BBC documentary on the science of sound from years ago has just popped up on the BBC Earth Science channel. If you fancy some cool sound science in your day, here you go:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp_u...

04.03.2026 19:22 πŸ‘ 211 πŸ” 47 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage want Britain to blindly follow Trump into this illegal war, even though the President has no plan for what comes next.

There is nothing patriotic about outsourcing Britain’s foreign policy to Donald Trump.

08.03.2026 08:18 πŸ‘ 2258 πŸ” 533 πŸ’¬ 95 πŸ“Œ 21
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Revealed: Tony Blair’s Institute lobbied EU to work with Trump’s Board of Peace in Gaza TBI pushed bloc on US plan for Palestine but internal disquiet on β€œtaboo topic” Gaza grows

Feels like a day to reup this recent Democracy for Sale story

Tony Blair’s Institute privately pressed a top European Union official working on the rebuilding of Gaza to work with Donald Trump’s Board of Peace.

democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-t...

08.03.2026 08:21 πŸ‘ 309 πŸ” 157 πŸ’¬ 27 πŸ“Œ 10
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The only difference between my children and your children is where they were born.

07.03.2026 23:45 πŸ‘ 47 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1