Peter Stott

Good news. My local councillor Ed Hill (voted in as Reform but since expelled from the party) told me he would only ask for the flags to be removed once all the drains had been unblocked, all the hedges cut and all the weeds had been dealt with. Removing them was his "absolute lowest priority".

I hosted a great discussion of it all here too:

YouTube video by Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen Overheard In Space by Michael Rosen I Hot Poets Ignite

Overheard in Space, a terrific poem by @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social and read by him as part of the wonderful Hot Poets initiative, has just been released today - find it at www.youtube.com/watch?v=KquX...

Climate science workshop brings together schoolchildren and world-leading researchers Pupils at an Exeter school have engaged with some of the world’s most renowned climate scientists at a special day-long workshop. Year six children from St Sidwell’s Church of England Primary and Nurs...

I really enjoyed working with the children of St Sidwell's Primary School in Exeter telling new stories about climate change with the international cardboard theatre company Hamishibi as part of the Schools Across the Ocean programme. It was a very inspiring day. news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

"we are far more united and have far more in common with each other than things that divide us" I still believe Jo Cox was right. Despite what happened to her, and what I saw today. Which was a group of people, draped in a flag that is just as much mine as theirs, using it to divide us.

Big turnout at the Exeter is For Everyone rally today that was held to oppose the far-right march through the town centre. Music, singing, chanting and a whole lot of love for diversity.

Well done people of Exeter for turning up and opposing the far right marching on our streets. My Swiss immigrant wife and I met several other non-Brits today who have made their home here and who were also part of the "This is what community looks like" brigade.

Exeter is anti-racist.
#ExeterIsForEveryone
#StandUpToRacism

Q&A: How do climate models work? | @hausfath.bsky.social @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org #CBarchive

Read here: bit.ly/3mEf6KH

Style.

When I was in Elgin at the Moray Climate Action Network (CAN) Climate Conference I learnt about this brilliant initiative with hairdressing students to help them talking with their clients about environmental changes called Under The Scissors www.moray.uhi.ac.uk/research/und...

Move over, Alan Turing: meet the working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn’t see in the movies The Oxbridge-educated boffin is feted as the codebreaking genius who helped Britain win the war. But should a little-known Post Office engineer named Tommy Flowers be seen as the real father of computing?

Move over, Alan Turing: meet the working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn’t see in the movies

Line graph time series of Svalbard sea ice area for 2025 compared to 2012 2020, and the 1981-2010 average with percentiles shown. There is a large seasonal cycle.

Here is a closer look at the record low #Arctic sea ice around Svalbard currently. This coincides with the record warmth as well (check out my earlier post). Earlier last week temperatures in parts of Svalbard were more similar to July than October.

Graphic produced by cryo.met.no/en/sea-ice-i...

FACTCHECK: What the Climate Change Act actually means for the UK – and what is a load of old nonsense

Really enjoyed putting this together with colleagues, inc learning new things about the fascinating backstory to the Act

Feat. OG authors of the Act & more

www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-wh...

We Are The Possible: COP28 · GreenFutures

Thanks Doug and great to see. I was part of the team (a small part in my case) that got this mural commissioned as part of the We Are The Possible initiative. I often use this image in talks, like iin Elgin on Friday at the Moray Climate Action Network greenfutures.exeter.ac.uk/our-impact/w...

Trust me to be giving a talk at the Moray Climate Action Network Climate Conference on the day a severe storm arrives in the area. I'll be talking about the influence of climate change on storms in this part of Scotland as well as my experiences with climate change denial. www.moraycan.org.uk

The dawn of the post-literate society And the end of civilisation

This is fantastic by @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social Articulates so well our (intentional?) societal regression

Climate change is not a con-job. If you want to know more about the evidence for and causes of #ClimateChange, head to our website: royalsociety.org/news-resourc...

Kate and William visit Southport families The Prince and Princess of Wales met bereaved families from last year's deadly knife attack.

Lovely to see the Prince and Princess of Wales visiting my old school today (Churchtown Primary) and the school my cousins went to (Farnborough Road) after the tragic events of last summer. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The people I work with are not stupid people and our climate predictions of 30 years ago of global warming have proved to be accurate. Just saying. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...

In a moment like this, when tensions are high, part of the job of the president is to remind us of the ties that bind us together.

Masterclass: from Academic to General Non-Fiction | Writing that connects | Arvon If you have an academic background, how do you find a place for creativity in your writing? Academics often capture fascinating stories in their research and archival work, but they don’t necessarily ...

I'm doing an @arvonfoundation.bsky.social masterclass tomorrow evening (Tuesday) where there'll be some fun writing exercises and I'll talk about some of the tips I've picked up on writing for a general audience and about getting published. Still time to join!

www.arvon.org/writing-cour...

Russell T Davies: gay society in ‘greatest danger I’ve ever seen’ after Trump win Exclusive: Doctor Who writer says he feels ‘a wave of anger heading towards us’ and hostility in UK as well as US

You're not alone! Was struck by this from Russell T Davies "What we will do in Elon Musk’s world, that we’re heading towards, is what artists have always done, which is to meet in cellars, and plot, and sing, and compose, and paint, and make speeches, and march.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

I noticed painted bollards as well yesterday (red cross on white square). I think I'm pretty mainstream patriotic and pro British flags where appropriate but I don't like the message of this eruption of flag-ism: immigrants (like my wife as it happens) are not welcome here....

Driving past here on the way from my home to the Lake District (up the M6) was a part of my childhood!

"Once the official road markings have been replaced, the drains have been unblocked, the hedges have been cut, the weeds have been dealt with, and any offensive graffiti has been removed, I will ask the relevant team to remove the flags and repaint the roundabouts. But not before."

I asked my local councillor (elected as Reform) about flags illegally placed on lampposts and painted on roundabouts locally - he replied "Removing [a flag] from any location will always be my absolute lowest priority"

Summer 2025 is the warmest on record for the UK Provisional Met Office statistics confirm that summer 2025 is officially the warmest summer on record for the UK.

New analysis from @metoffice.gov.uk showing that the record-breaking hot UK summer of 2025 has been made much more likely by human-induced climate change and such a hot summer would be expected about once every 5 years in current climate. www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

Final stats after the end of the month, but with the current stats and forecast, a new warmest UK summer is almost certain

Weather in Devon a bit meh today thanks to smoke from fires in the over-heated continent turning what would have been a nice sunny day (like yesterday) into a rather drab murky affair. Another impact of climate change...