Graham Caswell
@grahamcaswell
The revolution will not be uploaded, downloaded or captured on video. It will not involve an app or require a Google account. The revolution will not be posted about on social media. The revolution will be real.
"Ice sheets in West Antarctica and Greenland have already passed their tipping temperature. Arctic sea ice will do so in a few years. For the Atlantic Ocean, scientists simply don’t know." ‘Climate free fall’ www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Real science shows that the placebo effect can be effective even if subjects are aware of it. Fake science shows that looking at a photo of a frosty winter landscape can make you feel up to 2C cooler! ⛄
My favourite photo from Artimis Source: www.theguardian.com/science/gall...
If all pedestrians (AKA 'people') were required by law to wear bubble suits, horrific tragedies like this would be greatly reduced.
Thank you. That's interesting. Here's the graph and caption I'm looking at (from p. 21 of the report at iccinet.org/statecryo25/). Am I missing something or has it been changed since publication?
"To date no NDCs set targets to reduce oil and gas production or trim inefficient fossil fuel subsidies." (Source: p16, www.unep.org/resources/em...)
'Donkey addressing the lions' (Baroque photograph by Aiko Bongolan).
One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, Grafton Street in Dublin, was filled with cars until a 4 week pedestrianization pilot project in 1971. The opposition argued “no cars means no business,” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.
Some day, everyone will always have been against this. Today, most 'Western' countries continue business as usual with the perpetrators, while offering only useless 'statements of concern' to the victims.
"Surface water is being replaced by deep water rising to the surface, bringing with it heat and CO₂ that's been trapped for centuries. This process could double atmospheric CO₂ concentrations by releasing carbon that has been stored in the deep ocean for centuries." www.icm.csic.es/en/news/majo...
UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide Unanimously adopted by the UN General Assembly on 9 December 1948 and ratified by 153 state parties. Full text: www.ohchr.org/en/instrumen...
UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide Unanimously adopted by the UN General Assembly on 9 December 1948 and ratified by 153 state parties. Full text: www.ohchr.org/en/instrumen...
If you're still keeping your X account because you don't want to lose years of tweets, you should know that the 'download your data' function is excellent and gives you easy, searchable access to all your tweets ever, on your own device. It even has the old, pre-vandalism Twitter logo!
In times of chaos, attempts at prediction provide only the illusion of understanding and control. We're not in Kansas any more. In such times values, principles and courage are worth far more than analysis.
Today's G7 Zoom meeting were the real peace negotiations. The Ukrainian position was represented by France, Germany Italy, Japan, Canada and the UK. The Russian position was represented by the United States. Meanwhile, in the General Assembly...
Go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
It's centered on the Bering Strait *great circle* (to avoid splitting Russia in half). Here's both (from Wiipedia):
The 'up or down' orientation is arbitrary, national borders are imaginary abstractions, and the Gall–Peters projection most accurately depicts land mass. So...