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Aerial view of illegal Amazon deforestation. Credit: Paralaxis / Alamy Stock Photo

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YouTube video by British Comedy Russian Invasion - Salami Tactics | Yes Prime Minister

I’ve been thinking a lot about Salami Tactics recently.

This is the Cold War idea of achieving overall goals in thin slices, each of which in itself will not provoke the outrage necessary for serious escalation.

I think it makes sense of much of what we’re now seing.
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Schematic diagram showing the major axes of tree crown architecture

So excited to finally share our new paper charting the global spectrum of tree crown architecture, out today at @natcomms.nature.com ‬🧪🌐

Paper link 🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A brief thread of what we found 🧵

My thoughts exactly, makes Starmer look weak, desperate with no ideas of his own. Milliband for all his faults when was leader at least seems to have principles and ideas. Starmer just copies Farage and Trump, and betrays his voter base.

Technical Analysis of Spain’s Power Grid and the April 28, 2025 Outage Introduction Spain’s electrical power grid is a complex interconnected system that spans the Iberian Peninsula and connects with neighboring countries. This report provides a detailed technical overvi...

One big give away is that it is in a LinkedIn newsletter called "Experiments using AI chatbots" www.linkedin.com/pulse/techni...

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy The world's national debt is great news for the wealthy - whatever they like to claim

Very good as ever from @richardjmurphy.bsky.social If every country in the world is in debt, who are they in debt to? Answer wealthy private individuals and pension funds.

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Totally agree!

Biomass launched to count forest carbon ESA’s groundbreaking Biomass satellite, designed to provide unprecedented insights into the world’s forests and their crucial role in Earth’s carbon cycle, has been launched. The satellite lifted off ...

🌳🛰️ Our groundbreaking Biomass satellite lifted off on Vega-C #VV26 from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana at 10:15 BST/11:15 CEST on 29 April. The satellite is designed to provide unprecedented insights into the world’s forests and their crucial role in Earth’s carbon cycle.

While that is true to some extent, not all action needed can be done without some government input. Made more difficult now some parties want to ditch net-zero rather than sort out what isn't working.

5 year parliaments, unless there is cross-party consensus, always have and always will have short-term planning. Even worse if next government suddenly switches policy as in the US.

Climate plan based on phasing out fossil fuels doomed to fail, says Tony Blair Former PM claims net zero policies losing public support and says there should be greater focus on carbon capture

CCS is not a serious solution

Promised for decades

Used small-scale for oil recovery—even then, most CO₂ is not captured

Energy models assume 90% capture by default. We all know that’s a myth. These assumptions must change to stop misguided takes like this.

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I sometimes wonder if there are dodgy moves afoot to try and discredit Milliband in advance of whenever there is a reshuffle. And is this TBI thing part of that?

To me the Tony Blair institute said quite a few reasonable things but the emphasis on removal over "short-term" emissions cuts, is at best bad choice of words or worst an unrealistic "have your cake and eat it" fantasy.

DO itself is not a measure of forest health etc, but a theory on the principles that may determine the proportion of trees of different sizes in a forest. This theory has the potential to simplify things, particularly at large scales applicable to climate models. Hope thats helps.

Sorry it took me a while to reply. The paper is about the deeper theoretical ideas on how forests structure themselves. DO is our hypothesis on this. The aim is to further debate and discussion on our understanding of forest dynamics, so is one step removed from the ideas you mention.

I wish I could read "Small Gods" for the first time again, that and "Night Watch" are so good.

As a mathematician, I really appreciate "You bastard" in this book, also the assassins' training, & the time travel elements are great. This was around the time Pratchett started writing better plots. This book, plus "Guards Guards" & "Wyrd Sisters" are my faves of his early books.

I seem to be one of the few Discworld fans who like "Eric", for me it's one of the better Rincewind stories as it has more interesting messages like this and an alternative view of hell. I'm not saying it is STP's best book by a long way but I think it has more to offer than many suggest.

Well this is a tad worrying..... academic Prof Murphy explains why the Trump administration may seek to declare a state of emergency and end democracy within months.

Very cool. I had about that snake but hadn't appreciated it was around during the PETM.

Who has nostalgia for mining? The only good thing about it was job security, but the rest of the working conditions were really bad.

Interesting and important. One thing I wondered if any research as to how animals coped during the PETM as would seem reasonable to have expected more frequent dangerous wet bulb events in the tropics? I know mammals were smaller in PETM but not heard/read much else.

David Koresh but in the White House 😬

Yes Green, Lib Dems, SNP/PC but also Independents if they stand for values you believe in.

I think the answer is to follow @richardjmurphy.bsky.social plan rather than getting into taxing assets directly, which are hard to value

taxingwealth.uk

Who is the Jar Jarb Binks in our world?

White House will have a metal pole soon 😂

Eric (novel) - Wikipedia

Maybe you are thinking of the head Demon Astfgl in Eric?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_(n...

I think I know who you mean, hadn't realised he shared that

While things are pretty dire right now, particularly politically, it is always better to take action than not. Any reduction in emissions is better than none, the lower the emissions the more we have to turn things around.