Bob Taylor

Online evening lectures from the Royal Scottish Forestry Society

24th Nov: Treekeepers:
Award-winning author, Lauren E Oakes

8 Dec: Three Words for Forest:
Prof Deirdre Heddon

19 January: Silvohorticulture:
Farming and gardening pioneer Ben Raskin

www.rsfs.org.uk/index.php/on...

China Is Beating the US in the Battle for Energy Export Dominance China’s exports of clean energy technology hit a record in August, with $20 billion shipped globally.

"The US, which has positioned itself as a major fossil fuel exporter, sold $80 billion in oil and gas abroad through July, the last month with data available. China exported $120 billion in green technology over the same period."

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Despite the madness, there are still some places where to escape and free the soul. This a midnight sauna and swim from our wee boat at Heinävesi in Finland.

The Keeling Curve The Keeling Curve is a daily record of global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration maintained by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.

430.08 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 11-Apr-2025 keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

Our rising seas. This is only going to get harder to ignore.

This NASA visualization was created by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5520/

A stylised green outline of an electrical plug curves across the top. In the centre is the bold text "47%" in black, followed by the text "Electricity generated from renewables in the EU in 2024" in a smaller font below. In the lower-left corner are faint line drawings of a wind turbine and solar panels. The European Commission logo is in the top right corner. The background has a faint watermark pattern.

2024 was a record year for renewables.

Renewable generation reached 47% of the EU power mix, helping to bring down average wholesale electricity prices since 2021

Here are some key figures ↓

It’s magical when life appears from the ground after 4 months under snow. Spring n the forest is in full speed!

As a forester, it was the yard birch silhouette that stood out for me.

£100 per C tonne …

“You have the FULL backing across the United Kingdom, and we stand with you and Ukraine for as long as it may take” — British PM Starmer after his meeting with Zelensky

Warming up for the coming firewood season #spring #sustainableforestry #finland

I’ve been thinking about “no puppet, no puppet!” a bunch today… This whole clip is wild to look back on.

Editorial: A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership has demonstrate...

NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent.

“It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.

“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”

@kyivindependent.com

Ukraine is Europe!
We stand by Ukraine.

We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the agressor.

Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.

3 reasons why the EU Automotive Plan should leave the car CO2 targets as is:

📈The EV market is up, in part thanks to targets. Now is not the time to stop
🚗Let's focus on fleet electrification to boost demand
🔋The real crisis is developing local batteries capacity

Read more➡️ bit.ly/41CW5PW

“WE CANNOT LET CHILDREN DIE ON OUR WATCH” – STATEMENT FROM SAVE THE CHILDREN CEO INGER ASHING ON AID CUTS All of us at Save the Children are devastated by the moves by a number of governments to cut aid while others are also reducing their commitment to international collaboration. But we will not give up...

‼️ “We cannot let children die on our watch” - statement from Save the Children CEO Inger Ashing on the impact of aid cuts on children globally.

“This withdrawal of support will have a direct and deadly impact on some of the world’s most vulnerable children.”

www.savethechildren.net/news/we-cann...

Madness - high risk and unsustainable. Time to take the high road, not the low road.

Not just protect, but use wisely in a sustainable manner and thereby increase the carbon sink effect

The facts are the facts …

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And there it is, Global Sea Surface Temperatures reach levels not seen in at least 120,000 years before 2023 again!!

Europeans strongly support science and technology according to new Eurobarometer survey The latest Eurobarometer survey on ‘European citizens' knowledge and attitudes towards science and technology' released today shows more than 8 in 10 citizens (83%) think that the overall influence of...

What do Europeans think of science and technology?

- 83% believe science and tech have a positive impact,
- 67% say science makes life easier, healthier and more comfortable,
- 58% want to learn more about scientific advances.

Find out more in the new Eurobarometer.
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Comparison of model-predicted and observed global surface temperatures by Zeke Hausfather

I've been encountering over the past few days the claim that the planet is warming twice as fast as predicted. This is entirely untruthful and unhelpful.
The planet is warming AS fast as predicted, which is cause enough for dramatic action.

The truth is bad enough!

I’m in South Africa at the moment, visiting family. Chatting to a friend yesterday in Johannesburg who volunteers at a women’s shelter.
They were funded by USAid and have now had to close the shelter.

For all the night wandering foresters.. cold foggy and dark, but the light shines when one comes across a John Deere working away near midnight #logging #sustainableforestry #Finland

Some good news -- while greenhouse gas emissions haven't (yet!) completely peaked, many other forms of air pollution have.

Now we need to keep going, and drive down all emissions -- greenhouse gases included -- to zero.

New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States According to new data analyzed by ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, warming temperatures, rising seas and changing rainfall will profoundly reshape the way people have lived in North…

In 2020, we mapped out the danger zones that will close in on Americans over the next 30 years — combining climate data with wildfire projections by US Forest Service researchers.

See what changes are in store for your county.

By @shaw.al , @abrahm.bsky.social & Jeremy W. Goldsmith

As a Property & Casualty underwriter, yes, correct. All of the major insurance groups are well aware of the impact of climate change. It's a not so quiet secret based on modeling that if a green transition doesn't start soon, many areas of the US will become uninsurable within 20-30 years.

Exploring the drivers of modern global warming By using a simple climate model, we can disentangle greenhouse gases, aerosols, and natural forcings.

Really nice data-driven explainer of recent causes of global warming from @hausfath.bsky.social www.theclimatebrink.com/p/exploring-...

The damning statistics that reveal the true cost of Brexit, five years on www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...