Zoe James
@zolou.bsky.social
Postgraduate research student, University of Exeter, Creative Writing - 'Ways to Tell the Unfolding Climate Story'
Just been rereading this 2023 essay from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social It was such a crucial addition to the discourse, raising the spectre of mass starvation. ‘We are working in a very tight space’ www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/t...
The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People
The astonishing story of how a movement’s quest for rural simplicity drifted into a formula for mass death
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@richardjmurphy.bsky.social has 7 (or 8) answers to the bond market question. I take the Q to be: What can we do about rising govt debt in the face of rising interest rates on govt bonds? This thread paraphrases his answers so I can see if I understand. I'd love to see these proposals debated! 🧵 1/7
Richard Murphy@richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhy should pensioners and those on social security pay the price when bond investors demand higher returns? That is the question raised by the latest turmoil in government bond markets. I say the government should fight back and suggest seven ways it could. youtu.be/kI-wvSkHKkQ?...
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PIK_climate@pik-potsdam.bsky.social · 2mo ago„Durch die globale Erwärmung pumpen wir wahnsinnig viel Energie in den tiefen Ozean. In El Niño kommt die immer wieder hoch, und dadurch wird es noch mal extra schlimm. Das ist alarmierend.“ Interview PIK-Forscher @alevermann.bsky.social im ZDF-Morgenmagazin. ⬇️ www.zdfheute.de/video/zdf-mo...
This is all good, and shout out to @theguardian1.bsky.social environment reporters, but the political and economic reporting needs to get real too. Less gossip and telepathy, more physical reality please. @nebriefing.bsky.social needed all round. www.theguardian.com/membership/n...
The Guardian climate pledge 2026
Each year, the Guardian reaffirms its commitment to the environment – both in our reporting and how we operate as a business. From critical tipping points to war in Iran, this is how the last 12 month...
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Waiting for a downpour under these heavy skies is a bit Tim Curry. 'Anticip ...'
On the verge of teenager-dom, my best friend went off to Berkeley for 6 months while her dad was on sabbatical. She came back with a spliff, which we smoked in the woods, and the RHPS LP. The first was underwhelming, the second life changing. RIP Tim Curry www.theguardian.com/film/filmblo...
Farewell, Dr Frank-N-Furter: why Tim Curry’s Rocky Horror Show will go on
The versatile stage performer will always be remembered for his defining film role in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, which turned him into an icon of 70s underground cinema and proto-punk
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I worry a bit when I hear climate experts say in interviews that, in terms of global warming, things aren't going to get better, they will only get worse. 2028 might be cooler. What we are experiencing this year could be a big wave in a rising tide. Might be another big wave next year too.
Spare chair for anyone who drops by. Currently it's Bristly Ox Tongue
Interesting Climate Question on the super super El Niño currently building. TLDR: get ready to support people around the world as rains fail and floods hit. pca.st/episode/8801...
Solar eclipse in the UK on Wednesday, peaking around 7pm! 88 to 98% coverage! (Plus meteor showers Wed and Thurs, plus temperature records falling.)
Met Office - weather and climate@metoffice.gov.uk · 3mo agoFive things to know about the weather this week...
What an absolute treat: just finished listening to The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock, written by @girlhermes.bsky.social read by Juliet Stevenson, free through the library on Borrowbox. As the Guardian say: 'As a writer, she is the real deal'. www.penguin.co.uk/books/435195...
The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock
'A cracking historical novel – with a twinge of the surreal – about passion and obsession' The Times SHORLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 One September evening in 1785, the merchant Jon...
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It:s beginning to feel like the stories of the @nebriefing.bsky.social coming close to mainstream politics pca.st/episode/3556...
Britain's Ticking Time Bomb: The Food Security Crisis
Could the UK be facing empty supermarket shelves by 2030? Are food distribution centres sitting ducks for drone warfare? And how has Britain got to a place where is has just 3 days to 3 weeks worth…
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Best explanation I've seen for the increase in droughts and wildfires. I guess the rise of heat domes caused by ragged Jetstream caused by greater warming at poles is also a factor for our latitudes.
Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf@rahmstorf.bsky.social · 3mo agoAs long expected. It’s climate science 101. The vapor thirst of the atmosphere increases exponentially with temperature. A law of physics known since the early 19th C (Clausius–Clapeyron law). It causes more drought even if rainfall doesn’t decline. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
What if a missing piece was found that broke the log jam? What if there was a credible theory of change? This petition needs more signatures
Mike Berners-Lee@mikebernerslee.bsky.social · 5mo agoPlease sign and circulate this parliamentary petition, launched today from the National Emergency Briefing calling for a UK-wide, government-backed public briefing from independent experts on climate risks and also the opportunities from urgent action. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
What if a missing piece was found, and a theory of change? Sign me up! Loving the positivity from @mikebernerslee.bsky.social here pca.st/episode/81c6...
"We’re Not Ready": Inside the National Emergency Briefing on the Climate Shock Ahead
In this episode of GENN, Nick Breeze talks to Professor Mike Berners-Lee, Chair of the National Emergency Briefing (NEB), about why the UK is “not ready” for the accelerating climate and nature…
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Just read ocean physicist @rahmstorf.bsky.social's 2024 chapter 'Climate and Weather at 3 Degrees More'. Conclusion notes: 'This sounds dark and dystopian and I find it hard to write it while thinking of my children. But it is likely.' Open access. V useful detail. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Help pls! I suspect that when laypeople hear global warming in terms of 1.5, 2 or 3 degrees, for instance, most bring to mind a world like now but just a bit on the warm side. Has anyone researched the way the framing is perceived? @thierryaaron.bsky.social @jamesgdyke.info @doctorvive.bsky.social
Finished listening to Goliath's Curse, written and beautifully read by @lukekemp.bsky.social. Feel like I've been to the doctor's and had a thorough diagnosis and full, holistic (if devastating) consultation, addressing all the issues that having been hanging around for a long time. Much relief. 1/3
This is a great new episode off @overshootpod.bsky.social, interviewing @rahmstorf.bsky.social. I've listened to Rahmstorf a lot, but this is the best explanation of his I've heard on the AMOC, it's nature, risk of collapse, knock-on effects and timescales. pocketcasts.com/podcast/over...
AMOC Collapse: The Nightmare Tipping Point | Bonus Content
We sit down with world-renowned oceanographer and climate scientist Stefan Rahmstorf to discuss the reality of the AMOC (Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation) tipping point. After 35 years of…
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Finally found a reference to someone else eating a dandelion flower. The sweet honey taste of those silky ruffles of sunshine, squeezed from their green cup, is one of life's great joys to me, and one I've never found a companion in.They found it bitter! Wth! They must have got a mouthful of green.
If @richardjmurphy.bsky.social were chancellor: 1. Fiscal rules based on sustainability, real resources 2. Invest in energy, transport, housing, health, care 3. Job guarantee/GND/carbon army 4. BoE under gov ctrl 5. Tax reforms to rebalance wealth 6. All new ISAs gov bonds pca.st/podcast/dc92...
Funding the Future
Richard Murphy and occasional friends talking about everything you need to know to understand the economy, tax, finance and how we fund our future.
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'How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it' - Adam Smith pca.st/episode/897d...
Who is the real Adam Smith?
Neoliberalism claims Adam Smith as its founding father, but that claim is built on a lie. Smith's first great work, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), placed empathy and…
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"Alas for what we have lost." Beautiful zines from Gaza. www.coastallinespress.com/p/rain-was-o...
Rain Was Once a Promise
Rain once carried the promise of spring, of hope, of better days for Gaza.
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A lot to process in the news after a busy weekend with the grandkids. Distraught for the people of Tehran raising families under blackened skies. Still a piece of my heart left for Glasgow's Union Street in the city of my childhood.
'Overshoot barely registers in biodiversity science.' There's no way to bring back lost ecosystems, the dead can't be re-animated, & grabbing land for carbon capture hits biodiversity. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The hard road back from overshoot - Nature Climate Change
As global temperatures move beyond 1.5 °C, overshoot now defines the landscape ahead, sharpening legal claims, exposing economic risks and revealing how far politics still trail the pace of change.
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I was a bit horrified when I watched the first of Maggie Aderin-Pocock's @rigb.org Christmas Lectures last night, and I've sent an email to the RI explaining why (below). 🧵 1/12
'If you just take the good models, even for the intermediate emissions scenario, the probability of shutting down the AMOC is way above 50% ... we will probably pass the point of no return for an AMOC shutdown in the next 10, 20 years or so.' Odds on! Wd mean massive problems for food supply etc.
Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf@rahmstorf.bsky.social · 10mo agoWant to learn what we know about #AMOC risk in under 15 minutes? Here's a video of my latest talk, in Helsinki in October. 6/6 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULJX...
