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#Cocktail - Black Watch

60ml Scotch, 30ml Averna, dash Angostura, Cherry, orange twist

The name is a bit of a cheat as there's already another, 50ml Scotch, 20ml Coffee Liqueur, Lemon twist

But since I have the very similar Blessed (fka Black) Manhattan with Rye/Bourbon, why not?

Corpus Christi careens toward water catastrophe City officials expect to reach a “water emergency” within months and run out of water next year. That would halt jet fuel deliveries to Texas airports, hike gas prices and trigger a local economic disaster without precedent, former officials say.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/warning-issued-as-5-million-people-told-to-stay-inside-for-34-hours/ar-AA1XWfT9

And Texas
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/03/08/texas-corpus-christi-water-crisis/

‘A sobering preview’: extreme heat now affects one in three people globally, study finds Rising temperatures making it hard even for young, healthy people to safely do normal physical tasks in many regions

Extreme heat now affects one in three people globally. That's 2.7 Billion people.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/10/extreme-heat-study-global-warming-physical-activity

- Work from home, hybrid working
- Work nearer home, move closer to the work
- Cheaper public transport

Cheaper commuting: the best ways to save on the costs of your travel to work From railcards to route tweaks, here’s how to stop your daily train or car journey breaking the bank

A Grauniad article without comments about making commuting cheaper.
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/mar/11/cheaper-commuting-best-ways-to-save-costs-travel-to-work

Season tickets, commute less, duh!

Not mentioned or not fully explored : -
- Electric car
- Motorcycle
- Cycle
- Ride-shares

> Sea Surface Temp, Joint 2nd highest with '25 just behind '24
> Arctic Ice Extent 3rd lowest

#Climate Copernicus press release about Feb 2026

https://climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-exceptionally-wet-conditions-western-europe-during-fifth-warmest-february-globally-0

> 5th highest Feb in records at 1.49C above Pre-Ind
> Exceptionally wet conditions & flooding in Western Europe

Trump's speech writers really need to take some lessons from Mr Boris Johnson, the master of the three word and three phrase slogan.

Get Brexit Done => Get Iran Done

As of about 2020, the IPCC definition of the target "1.5C above pre-industrial" refers to a 30 year average, not a single year or month. This allows for individual year variations. But when the average temp is rising so fast, 30 years feels too long.

https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/

C3S Global Temperature Trend Monitor Reaching 1.5°C of global warming - a limit agreed under the Paris agreement - may feel like a very distant reality, but it might be closer than you think. See where we are now and how soon we would reach the limit if the warming continued at today's pace.

For individual month averages, varying adjustments are made between 0.80C and 0.96C due to yearly variations.

So 1.5C warming above pre-industrial is 0.62C above 1991-2020

https://apps.climate.copernicus.eu/global-temperature-trend-monitor/?tab=methodology

#Climate Things I did not know. Anomalies in Avg Global 2m Air Temperature are measured against the 1991–2020 ref period as this well documented. For yearly averages a constant 0.88C is then applied to show an anomaly against the 1850-1900 "pre-industrial" average as this is less documented.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jbond/115920869712820574

19 Jan 2026 seems so long ago.

I usually watch those kind of things at 1.5x or 2x speed. But Feargal has so many words and talks so fast that I could only manage 1.25x.

Both of them have this air of just speaking unavoidable truths. I'm sure they're not always right but your arguments had better be tight if you want to disagree.

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Polanski talks to Sharkey 48m

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPo3_0DjgyU

Vote Green! 🇬🇧

After last night's countryfile, this is the enshittification of everything.

At what stage does Thames Water actually go insolvent? And what happens then? I guess this is the year they FAFO when sh*t gets real.

https://x.com/Feargal_Sharkey/status/2030931413990580274

> American insurance company Assured Guaranty, who already insures $15bn worth of water company debt wants nothing more to do with England's water companies including Thames Water who are desperately trying to refinance and can't.

As oil goes over $100 per barrel, I have to ask,

How does a global recession help Israel?

Great Britain has only two days of gas stored, while Iran war threatens to disrupt supplies National Gas insists storage broadly in line with levels for time of year despite disruption for tankers carrying LNG

It seems we don't have a lot of storage. And it was Liz Truss as energy sec who signed off on reducing it.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/mar/08/great-britain-has-only-two-days-of-gas-stored-as-iran-war-disrupts-supplies

A suggestion. Use early. Use often.

Vote Green! 🇬🇧

#Cocktail - L'Appetit

30ml Fernet Branca, 50ml Red Vermouth, rocks, Orange twist

The Fernet taste overpowers. You might as well just drink Fernet on the rocks on its own. Fine if you like that kind of thing.

Seen on FB.

Are there any UK journalists in Lebanon? There was some footage on the UK news but no talking heads. Maybe I missed it.

I predict a Green wave in the local elections. Anyone who thinks our byelection win was an outlier is mistaken | Zack Polanski Since the Gorton and Denton victory, I have travelled the UK and seen the energy that result unleashed. More will follow, says Zack Polanski, leader of the Green party

Green Is Coming!

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/07/predict-green-party-wave-zack-polanski-local-elections-byelection-win

Old enough to remember driving through Iran and Afghanistan to India in a VW Microbus in late '78 and then having the Iran revolution and Afghan Invasion happen behind us.

From Bush Sr to Trump: the risks, lessons and legacy of US interference in the Middle East While there are similarities with the wars against Iraq, the Iran conflict may prove to be the most dangerous and consequential yet

Old enough to remember Bush Snr's Iraq-Kuwait war.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2026/mar/08/us-interference-middle-east-iraq-iran-conflict-legacy-lessons

Practicing my religion in the woods on a Sat night. There's been rain for months so no fire and everything smells of death, decay, putrefaction and shit.

Fog, remote flood lights and a fading moon means lots of stumbling around in the almost dark.

So that's the line is it? "Greens reject social care and social housing." Really? Are you just making this stuff up, Labour?

> The data shows that Labour’s core voters think Keir Starmer disagrees with them on *Gaza, social equality issues and Brexit*. They want someone that shares their values.

Support, join, subscribe, donate to the smaller & devolved parties. LibDem, Green, SNP, Plaid Cymru, Sinn Fein.

Senior Labour figures warn government amid fears of ‘political earthquake’ in London Exclusive: Senior party figures share data suggesting Green surge could put Labour in fourth place in capital in May

UK Council elections 7-May. Two months today.

Go Greens!

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/06/labour-urged-listen-progressive-voters-or-face-political-earthquake-london

Tactical vote, FTW.
https://stopreformuk.vote/

#KRO Keep Reform Out
#GTTO Get The Tory Out
#GLO Get Labour Out