Thirty years after oligarchs took hold of Russia they are scooping up the US. Thank you EU for resisting ✊ I'm out of here. @nickcowern.bsky.social

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If you ever thought the words "Climate Emergency" were an exaggeration, welcome to 2024 and the new post-1.5°C world.
Let's stop pretending that the Earth is heating up steadily. The heating has turned up steeply this century and that 2050 net zero target is nowhere near soon enough. 2024 and beyond is emergency territory.
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Well here we are. Musk is promoting violent fascists, destabilising democracies and helping accelerate climate chaos. I will close my account here by close of play this weekend. Anyone wishing to continue following me, it's @nickcowern.bsky.social. Thank you.
If you ever thought the words "Climate Emergency" were an exaggeration, welcome to 2024 and the new post-1.5°C world.
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Still waiting, @BBCNews
Dear @BBCNews, you give half an hour solid to sport each evening, you probably give an hour to weather forecasts each day. Can you also please give a dedicated daily half hour to the climate and ecological emergency, the most important thing humanity has to deal with. Thank you.
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Muggins here has obviously forgotten (if he/she/they/it ever knew) that Brits drive on the left
🚨BREAKING: Thousands of tractors are making their way towards London. It's estimated up to 5000 tractors will be showing up today. @UKLabour time to start listening.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The number plates on the tractors are clearly German. This photo shows a 2023 protest in Berlin. reuters.com/world/europe/g…
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One of my final messages on this self-discredited platform bsky.app/profile/nickcowern.…
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Happy to find av COP for the last week for our 3mo old @Viessmann Vitocal 150 ASHP is 6.4 and - a more solid benchmark - efficiency (heating+DHW) is 60.8% of the Carnot theoretical limit. Keen to know what DT flow control could achieve @jtsteadheating @Peter_Spurway #heatgeeks
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I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians. I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor. My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I’m proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California. That’s policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn’t sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make people’s lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people. Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime. It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand. I want to tune out. But I can’t. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious. And I will always be an American before I am a Republican. That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious. For decades, we’ve talked about the national debt. For decades, we’ve talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing. The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren’t you, the people. The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans’ lives better. It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed! But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won’t solve our problems. It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful. We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger. That’s enough reason for me to share my vote with all of you. I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz. Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us. And even if you disagree with me, vote, because that’s what we do as Americans. vote.org
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Words fail. Words fail. Today the World Meteorological Association released their annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin. Carbon levels have reached a level not seen since the Pliocene Epoch 3 million years ago - when sea levels rose an astonishing 30-60 feet. We explain: 🧵 (1/14)
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No need to worry about earthquakes when you know perfectly well the stuff will never be built. Just a short term ploy to divert attention from renewables #auspol
Kristina Anastasi from Geoscience Aus. says despite recent earthquakes the LNP has “not” bothered to ask them for an analysis of the risks associated with any of the 7 sites where they want to stick nuclear reactors & that such an analysis could take around 2yrs to complete.
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"The chances that a child in the next century will feel gentle sunlight against her skin, or hear birdsong, or see native animals in the wild, or even live some part of the year outside of a storm shelter, will depend on the degree to which we can manifest fellow feeling for her now." theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Interesting subtleties of COP measurement with an ASHP: the last 2 days measured mean Carnot factor drifted low, ~55%; today it is back to more usual ~62%. We had a weak temperature inversion, inlet air to the heat pump likely colder than measured outside T. #heatgeek @betateach
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An interesting converse to this situation would be to passively pre-heat the inlet air. Has anyone tried this? #heatgeek @betateach
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Given the enormous hazard of an AMOC collapse, it should be regarded as a huge risk to international security. There's a massive blind-spot when it comes to strategic risk assessment on this by governments, which needs to be addressed immediately ippr.org/articles/security-b…
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Prof Nick Cowern retweeted
I went to Belfast last year and did a tour with a former IRA insurgent. He said when he was 14, British soldiers shot up his apartment bloc killing someone he knew. He joined the IRA's youth wing after that, then joined the IRA when he was 18. He was vague but said
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Prof Nick Cowern retweeted
This story is one of the most disturbing I've ever covered. It's about how the views of a deeply weird ideological sect affected science, medicine and the media, with devastating impacts on patients. Please read and pass on. This horror has to stop. theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Prof Nick Cowern retweeted
Hear, hear! I wish @SpaceX would cooperate with @NASA, @ESA, @JAXA_en to get lots of Earth observation satellites into orbit to more accurately understand and protect our home planet! Earth is the new frontier! @elonmusk
I'm not really a fan of what Elon has done with this site, but his company deserves full credit for this. The Starship booster catch is an amazing feat of engineering, and SpaceX seems poised to deliver another game changing reduction in orbital launch costs.
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