Tom Jennings

All signs continue to point to an exceptional, long-duration, and record-breaking to (in some cases) record-shattering March heatwave initially centered across U.S. Southwest but expanding to much broader region next week. This is effectively a full-on summer heatwave in March.

Opinion | Trump Will Destroy Washington if It’s the Last Thing He Does

'Sound familiar? In 1937 in a report on Mussolini’s by then extensive reconstruction of Rome, National Geographic magazine quoted a guide who imagined that the Fascist dictator might say to the city, “That’s what you once were. I’ll make you great again.”'
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/o...

Why is RAF Fairford likely to be used in Iran conflict? The Prime Minister says the US can use British military bases for

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Long Overlooked as Crucial to Life, Fungi Start to Get Their Due Fungi create soil, sequester vast amounts of carbon, and contribute $55 trillion to the global economy, but knowledge about them is scarce. Now, mycologists are pushing to get the international scient...

Promise I'm not on acid but given the feats of mind-control fungi are capable of, do we know for sure that spores which benefitted from the end of the Ice Age didn't hijack the minds of our early ancestors and mould our evolution towards their own, ice-melting ends...? e360.yale.edu/features/fun...

Sony’s newest gadget is a $100,000 EV, and it’s debuting in California Afeela, an EV brand created by Honda and the electronics company Sony, will compete against Tesla and Lucid in California.

The penny has dropped amongst audio makers that silent EVs are in fact mobile concert halls. TWENTY-EIGHT SPEAKERS! www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Djibouti is fighting aid cuts with a tax on carbon dioxide emissions A new levy is being used to fund climate adaptation efforts in the tiny East African county – and could be a model for countries across the continent. Nick Ferris reports

Love this: little Djibouti showing the rest of the world how it's done! www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan... (c/o @the-independent.com)

I remember reading that as recently as 100 years ago, it was common for parents in the UK to not even name their babies for the first 12 months, such was the likelihood of them not living to see their first birthday anyway.

‘Toxic’ mix of warming and agriculture is decimating US birds - study ‘Extremely adaptable’ bird species are declining at an alarming rate – with worrying implications for humans.

'Billions fewer birds are flying through North American skies than decades ago and their population is shrinking ever faster, a new study has found. The decline is mostly due to a combination of intensive agriculture and warming temperatures.'
www.euronews.com/2026/03/09/b...

I feel like Kubrick would have rejected the idea of a Hegseth-style character as being too far-fetched for a movie like 'Dr Strangelove'

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

Good ol’ clean Norwegian companies that <checks notes> want to build third largest gas facility in a land where a similar proposal was rejected in 2021 over concerns about environmental risks for Indigenous communities

I don't think you have to Nostradamus to figure that bombing Iran might raise oil prices. And it seems pretty obvious that buying oil in advance of causing an oil price spike might just save Americans a lot of money. But...

...maybe there wasn't much planning?

This is fun: I asked a well-known AI chatbot to devise a hiking itinerary for the Ridgeway National Trail... last time I checked, the chalk cross on Whiteleaf Hill didn't look like the Cerne Abbas Giant's you-know-what...

Interesting that Trump administration set out to reverse the renewables transition by: -

A) Boosting U.S. A.I. sector (now leading to resurgent interest in U.S. solar even among MAGA diehards)

B) Spiking oil prices via Iran etc (great advert for EVs/heatpumps etc.)

Greenest President Ever?

Factcheck: North Sea gas is not ‘four times cleaner’ than LNG imports | @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org #CBarchive

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Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein The warning signs included a web search, a mother’s doubts, and inklings of a “sexist attitude”

Scientists! Avoid entangling yourself in a global child trafficking ring using this one weird trick (talking to literally any woman)
www.science.org/content/arti...

Britain used as much coal last year as it did in 1600 The use of coal last year fell by 9 million tonnes and helped drive down Britain’s greenhouse gas emissions by 2.4 per cent

'Britain used as much coal last year as it did in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and some of William Shakespeare’s works were first performed on stage.'
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme... (c/o @adamvaughan.bsky.social)

FUN FACT: The UK has nearly twice as many public EV chargers as fuel pumps

www.gov.uk/governmen...

One would have hoped his years of service on the front lines in Vietnam would have given him a superior understanding of such precarious sensitivities.

China knows the liability that oil import dependencies create, and how to play the long game.

New car sales in China have gone from 6% electric in 2020 to 51% electric in 2025.

This is large-scale industrial policy in service of national security goals.

Presumably Hegseth meant first time an AMERICAN submarine has sunk an enemy ship via torpedo since WW2? Might want to ask the Argentine Navy if not...

Torpedos are a great distraction from tor-paedos

REPORTER: Yesterday you told us Israel was going to strike Iran and that's why we needed to get involved. But today the president said Iran--

RUBIO: No. Were you there yesterday?

REPORTER: Yes. I asked the question

Please write about her again, I still don't recognise the name

Here's my first edit on the March 3rd Lunar Eclipse. 15 moon shots, 1 foreground. Taken over a 3 hourish period.

Cocoa boom, water bust Cocoa-growing communities in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa, forced to drink water from unsafe ditches and streams.

Cocoa-growing communities in Côte d'Ivoire forced to drink water from unsafe ditches and streams, even as their crops supply the likes of Mars, Nestle, Ferrero, Cadbury-Mondelez, Lindt, Ben & Jerry’s (Unilever), Tony’s Chocolonely, Godiva, Hershey’s, Starbucks. theecologist.org/2026/mar/03/...

Trump should surely understand the risks after his many years of fearless frontline service in Vietnam?

Norway wealth fund makes first investment in US renewable energy assets Norway's sovereign wealth fund, the ​world's largest, has made its first investment ‌in renewable energy assets in the United States, buying a 33.3% stake in a portfolio ​of 17 solar plants and five ​...

Norway's sovereign wealth fund is not generally know for its lack of longterm vision... www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Don't understand why more fuss isn't being made about roadside litter in UK, currently at appalling levels in many places. Should be national outcry even in this addled era. One issue we should be able to fix. So many townies don't see it, though - urban areas now much tidier than rural verges.

Clearly tilting at windmills and still seems to think Labour are her main competitors. How quaint.