Leo Barasi

Thanks! Making sure I’m understanding this: eg Astwood Bank is now on its longest streak of consecutive wet days and Cardinham is on its 4th-longest? And when does the data go back to?

Very keen to see it! Any idea when?

How does this compare with the historical record? Are any of these approaching/already seeing their longest wet streaks on record - or is that some way off?

Explore the longlist - The Climate Fiction Prize Explore the inaugural longlist for the Climate Fiction Prize

This year's Climate Fiction Prize longlist looks great. Read all of last year's list, haven't read any of these yet. Time to get stuck in.

Yeah. Hadn't seen any forced choice horse race polls (only ones with all candidates) but I'd assume that's true

Hi, fellow Brits, I know there's a lot going on, but had we all noticed that Steve Hilton - yes that Steve Hilton - is a leading contender to be the next Governor of California?

So cool that the Climate Fiction Prize has Fredi as a judge this year. No pressure on getting the science right, authors.

Here's my ongoing list of climate fiction books I've enjoyed/recommended bsky.app/profile/leob...

Explore the longlist - The Climate Fiction Prize Explore the inaugural longlist for the Climate Fiction Prize

This year's Climate Fiction Prize longlist looks great. Read all of last year's list, haven't read any of these yet. Time to get stuck in.

Incidentally Flood Re not cutting insurance costs enough has meant people/authorities acted to reduce risk exposure.

Which is arguably good - but if Flood Re is now exposing people to true costs of flood insurance, there is going to be a mega problem on the way

South Wales council to buy and demolish homes prone to flooding Residents of 16 houses on Clydach Terrace in Ynysybwl express relief after repeated floods caused by climate crisis

Residents here are saying insurance was unaffordable. Flood Re is supposed to address that - anyone know why it hasn’t worked here?

Sometime in the mid-90s - think it was the same one where, when you were going to get carded, you could run away from the ref indefinitely and would never get sent off

Truly wild that the Sun, Daily Mail, Daily Express & Daily Telegraph all covered false claims that net-zero will "cost" £7.6bn – or even £9tn – which assumes we could have free gas, free petrol, free petrol cars & free gas power plants if we scrapped net-zero

More here: bsky.app/profile/drsi...

An oven with shattered glass, with AEG logo

Excited to use our new kitchen at last!

50 mins later:

Residential proximity to nuclear power plants and cancer incidence in Massachusetts, USA (2000–2018) - Environmental Health Purpose To investigate the associations between residential proximity to nuclear power plants and ZIP code–level cancer incidence among Massachusetts residents. Methods We assessed proximity of Massac...

New paper finds 20k cancer cases attributable to living near a nuclear power plant.

Surprising to me & challenges my priors. Is it reasonable? Interested what someone who understands the stats/epidemiology makes of it

I've been reading through the Tiffany books with my 8 year old and it's gone very well. Hasn't felt spoilery and has excited him to eventually read the older books. (plus, reading them aloud reveals details I'd have missed, though I assume this isn't your plan)

If you haven't seen this before (I hadn't) I really think it's the best articulation I've seen of what Britain is - in a way that captures what makes it different from other countries, unlike the usual "we like tradition and fairness, we've got nice landscapes, we're kind to animals"

Same here! It's so good

Just realised the etymology of dormouse, a mouse that sleeps a lot, not one that lives in doors. That does make more sense.

Hundreds of thousands to lose heat pump subsidies in Reeves’s budget plan Exclusive: Supporters say grants largely going to middle-class households, but experts warn move will slow transition from gas boilers

Very easy for Treasury to characterise heat pump grants as being kickbacks for middle class families, but they are primarily a mechanism for catalysing a market that will then benefit everyone. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Britain’s climate action plan unlawful, high court rules Environmental campaign groups took joint action against decision to approve carbon budget delivery plan

Eventually, not much - esp as govt can always repeal the Climate Change Act. But the journey to that is through a bunch of high court rulings, requirements to explain to Parliament etc. Eg:

If Andrew is right - as he usually is - it once again reflects the problem with political journos covering policy, where they don't ask the question a specialist would think of. In this case, "how will you meet legal climate targets after this change?"

Monthly average water levels from January 1994 through October 2025. All Octobers are marked with a red dot for reference. Sea level rise has been nearly 9 inches (22 cm) since the gauge was installed in 1994.

Climatology and records of monthly water levels observed at the Virginia Key tide gauge. The white dot is the new 2025 record in October, which is also the new all-time record high. https://bmcnoldy.earth.miami.edu/vk/

The average water level measured at Virginia Key (near #Miami) set a new monthly record high in October, which is also the new *all-time* record high month.
I also feel confident that it was the highest monthly water level there since the last interglacial period... ~120,000 years ago.
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Wordy and passively voiced sign on a sandy beach, in desperate need of a copy edit: Dog Owners, Your dogs are welcome on this beach. In the interests of hygiene however, it would be appreciated if you dispose of their excrement in the bins provided. What’s wrong with: Clean up your dog’s poo

Why are British signs like this? Are the writers paid per word?

Never been as jealous of your job as I am today

Wordy and passively voiced sign on a sandy beach, in desperate need of a copy edit: Dog Owners, Your dogs are welcome on this beach. In the interests of hygiene however, it would be appreciated if you dispose of their excrement in the bins provided. What’s wrong with: Clean up your dog’s poo

Why are British signs like this? Are the writers paid per word?

On this subject, you should all buy @susannahfisher.bsky.social’s book on what needs to happen with climate adaptation www.amazon.co.uk/Sink-Swim-wo...

Can confirm she is a GOD

A thing I find remarkable here is there was a bunch of Independent Minded journalists who kept posting that ice volumes were stable until the mid 2010s, and then... just moved on to something else

'This is what farming with climate change looks like': England endures second worst harvest on record New analysis confirms three of the five worst harvests on record have occurred in the past five years on the back of extreme heat, drought, and rainfall

That England has had its three worst harvests on record inside the past five years really should be being treated as a much bigger cause for concern than is currently the case. www.businessgreen.com/news/4520171...

🎶 jet planes meeting in the air to be refuelled all these things I love so well 🎶