Retired geologist still with a curiosity about lumps of rock, especially if they came from the mantle in a kimberlite. Lived in lots of countries.
Harrogate, England
Joined July 2011
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Richard J 🍞🍺 retweeted
🚨 IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: LUCY POWELL CAUGHT TAKING THOUSANDS FROM THE UAE GOVERNMENT!
Just in case you missed the latest Gulf money scandal taking over Downing Street, let me expose the latest politician caught in the web.
Education Secretary Lucy Powell pocketed 3,500 pounds in luxury hospitality paid directly by the United Arab Emirates government.
She also happily accepted free tickets on five separate occasions from Manchester City, the exact same football club Burnham protects from financial cheating charges.
Labour elites are raking in luxury foreign freebies while forcing brutal tax hikes onto working class families.
Retweet this immediately to expose the corrupt influence ring operating right inside the Burnham cabinet. 🇬🇧🔥
Richard J 🍞🍺 retweeted
The 10°C-high Urban Heat Island. In 3D.
Now look at this and ask: does the climate community have <1°C accuracy using ~500 km avg grids and stations 99.9% in urban vicinity?
The unresolved time/spatial signal is an order of magnitude larger.
@cohler would say: untethered.
Richard J 🍞🍺 retweeted
8/ AROME runs slightly warm overall: +0.77°C.
Nice find: the Tour Eiffel thermometer is ~330 m above ground and reads ~3.5°C colder than AROME’s near-surface 2 m temperature.
That is almost exactly the expected atmospheric lapse rate: roughly 1°C cooler per 100 m of height.
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London, May 26th 2026: ~10°C 🔥urban 🌈 heat contrast.
Of course Kew Gardens sits inside that wider urban heat plume too. A patch of green does not create a separate rural air mass.
How are people still being fooled at this level?
Richard J 🍞🍺 retweeted
The UK record for consecutive Summer days without rain is Macclesfield in 1959 with nearly 90 days. However, there is no trend in drought periods at any long-term station in the UK. It's simply random weather events.
Richard J 🍞🍺 retweeted
How much does renewable energy cost us?
At least this much
Click on the picture to get it updated in real time!
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Richard J 🍞🍺 retweeted
£26436.80 is the new min wage annual salary (40 hrs p/wk).
And as the min wage rises, regular salaries don't. So many people will begin to ask themselves 'why am I working this highly stressful job that needed qualifications and a tonne of bullshit paperwork and police checks just to earn 5k more a year than I would stacking shelves at Lidl?'
Richard J 🍞🍺 retweeted
🚨Our film is up
We spent months making this👇
About how Britain shut down many of the factories we need to feed us and defend us.
Will have more to say on it in due course but in the meantime - pls watch, share and let me know what you think youtube.com/watch?v=PQ3hT8tq…
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I can't find anything about it on their website. There's a manifesto from 2019 but that doesn't mention gender issues.
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Latest Energy Trends figures show steady increase in wind and solar capacity. But how does this compare to Ed Miliband’s CP2030 plan? A thread (1/n)
Richard J 🍞🍺 retweeted
#OTD in 1943, German forces discovered mass graves of Polish prisoners murdered by the Soviets. The execution of 22,000 Polish officers began in 1940.
The initiative to honour the Poles murdered in Katyń faced endless political obstacles in London. Why?
britishpoles.uk/the-turbulen…
Richard J 🍞🍺 retweeted
When it occurred, 2016 was striking as the hottest directly measured year up until that point.
Eight years later, 2024 will set a new record for the hottest year.
2024 will be ~0.25 °C (~0.45 °F) hotter than 2016.
Richard J 🍞🍺 retweeted
A brief guide to the Nine Circles of Hell according to Dante's Inferno...
From the things that land people in each circle (including astrology and political corruption) to how they're punished — and who else is already there:
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Eastern England has been eroding rapidly for about 15,000 years since the end of the last ice age. We can either invest in costly flood defence or enjoy it while Nature takes its inevitable course and removes it. That is the only choice, regardless what climate activists say.
Richard J 🍞🍺 retweeted
German transshipments of cars and parts to Russia via Turkey and Central Asia (orange) are so big they offset completely the drop in direct exports to Russia (black). Germany has shown itself to be an awful combination of short-term greed and poor leadership. "Ein Totalausfall."
Richard J 🍞🍺 retweeted
Energy This Week in @TheNationalNews : tense talks at @COP29_AZ , new US energy secretary - fossil or future?, & power cuts hit Iran
Richard J 🍞🍺 retweeted
Maybe you'd like to listen to some real science:
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You have got to hear this.
Incredible
@Keir_Starmer you watching kid.
