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Ben JJ

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Phil McDuff@mcduff.bsky.social · yesterday

Because what are you gonna do about it? The best answer the political establishment has for this is a chap with a bin on his head. So either make there be consequences or shut the fuck up with this "ohohoho" stuff. They know they're breaking the law and they know you won't stop them.

Count Binface@countbinface.bsky.social · 2d ago

Riddle me this. If somebody donates £36 million to a political party and £5 million to its leader, how is the £5 million not political? Asking for a parliamentary standards commissioner.

Media Diversified@writersofcolour.bsky.social · 2d ago

A HMRC official was sacked because he was caught on camera saying he gives wrong information to black and brown people when they call for advice in a bid to sabotage them. He was a member of the far right group Patriotic Alternative. How many more?

Ben JJ@benjjgeo.bsky.social · 4d ago

Climate change is not just about whether we reach 1.5C, 2C, 4C, etc Some tipping points appear to respond to *how fast* we heat the planet. Even if you're hopeless about stopping human emissions (I'm not) you should be all about *slowing down* emissions!!

Failure to track a stable AMOC state under rapid climate change The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a tipping element of the climate system, currently has an estimated global warming threshold for collapse of +4.0 °C (uncertainty range 1.4–8 °C). However, such a threshold may not be meaningful because AMOC stability depends on the rate of radiative forcing change, not a set temperature. Here we identify an AMOC stabilizing mechanism that operates on timescales slower than present-day warming rates. Slow forcing permits coherent adjustment of surface and interior ocean properties, supported by enhanced evaporation and reduced sea-ice extent, counteracting destabilizing feedbacks. Using a slow CO2 ramp (+0.5 ppm yr−1) climate model simulation, we explicitly demonstrate the AMOC remains stable up to +5.5 °C of global warming. By contrast, under faster CO2 ramps, the AMOC collapses at substantially lower warming levels (+2 °C). Our findings demonstrate rate-induced AMOC tipping and imply that limiting the rate of emissions is critical for reducing the risk of an AMOC collapse.
Dr. Aaron Thierry@thierryaaron.bsky.social · 5d ago

1/ "Every fraction of a degree of warming matters." True, and a dangerous platitude. It quietly suggests warming is a smooth dial, where each tenth of a degree costs about the same as the last. It doesn't. The later ones cost far more. Here's why. 🧵

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Ben JJ@benjjgeo.bsky.social · 6d ago

North Sea Oil is a litmus test for climate, but I think for other things too: if you can't do the right thing when there is literally no trade-off, you will never do the right thing when there *is* a trade-off

Tomas Hirst@tomashirstecon.bsky.social · 7d ago

FWIW I don’t think masked thugs on the street has anything to do with fiscal policy missteps. It’s the softpawing of the extreme right and the tacit acceptance of norm breaches around xenophobia that have emboldened people onto the street. This is why the “legitimate concerns” frame is so dangerous.

Gift@giftmacher.bsky.social · 7d ago

Europe did not de-Nazify: the USSR couldn't stamp it out entirely and the West kept fascism quietly bubbling along as useful opposition to communism (crudely, anti-communism is always fash). Now the cancer within is in full relapse and our liberal Elite once again think it's the lesser evil.