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given that many are not in a position to give up their cars entirely. More car-sharing would help).

put bike lanes more than a door-length from parking but that would take a lot of space. My favored solution, especially in Oxford where streets are narrow, is to just get rid of on-street parking. (There is some issue of terrace-house residents who have no on-property parking space,

I don't quite see it. Can't you door somebody with the back-side of a door instead of the front side? Would rear hinge make it worse because it's harder to open the door partway and look backward for cyclists (not that any motorists actually seem to do that). The ultimate solution would be to

That's Tim in the picture, alumnus of the Oxford PCD group. We are proud of his subsequent career.

that are part and parcel of the climate modelling enterprise. The work on foundations of global warming that Suki Manabe got the Nobel prize for was done at NOAA's GFDL. GFDL is far from the only example of a NOAA lab that has contributed crucially to our understanding of current-nand paleo-climate

Yes, you are wrong about NOAA's role in climate research. The prime example of a major NOAA contribution to understanding of global warming was the pioneering work on climate modelling at GFDL, which involved a large group and started most of the major concepts (like convection parameterization)

So it still looks like NOAA is being purged of anything that can shed light on global warming.

Will any of these positions go to replacing the climate change researchers who were purged by Doge and subsequent actions? Will GFDL be able to hire again in their climate program?

Fetterman was the sole Senate Democrat voting against the War Powers resolution that would have held Trump to account for his illegal war with Iran. It's time for him to go. And of course "moderate" Susan Collins of Maine voted against the resolution, with her Republican cohort. She must go, too.

I got this book as a Christmas present. Well worth reading, and I'm sure the event will be great.

What's your favourite spell correct fail? My mailer keeps wanting to change "Hycean Worlds" to "Hyena worlds." And another corrected a minor misspelling of "incompressible fluid " to "incomprehensible fluid," which actually, come to think of it, for the paper I was writing, was probably accurate.

Lock him up for assault! This is clearly unjustified violence, and in no way an accident.

beeing scrutinized from all sorts of angles, nothing has made a dent in the central premise of CO2 radiative forcing, and the way climate responds to it.

This is science in action. Bad theories get examined and overturned. In that light, it is noteworthy that the basic physics of the way CO2 causes global warming has been around for over a century, and pretty much in its modern form since Manabe and Wetheralds' 1960's paper, and despite

Paper day! Congratulations to Tobias. This is a great example of the interplay of mantle convection modelling and surface/atmosphere planetary processes. I'm proud to say Tobias was in my group at Oxford when this work was done.

Proud to say Tobias was a postdoc in my group at Oxford when this work was done.

Yeah, I'm the one that came up with that.

Shame on the Senate. We need new senators. Vote out any illegal war supporters in the midterms.

The STFC cuts to astronomy are awful, but note you are still eligible for ERC funding. It's got a low success rate, and some of their decisions are bizarre, but if you get an ERC it's really transformative.

I think about this very thing often when I see astrobiologists try to make sweeping inferences about life in the Universe from the n=1 example that life exists on Earth.

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of how sheep husbandry and crofting are woven into community identity, so I acknowledge there are important issues that go beyond economics.

pasture would revert to peat bogs (which are a slow but effective way of extracting atmospheric CO2 and storing it long-term). I wonder if peat restoration + more onshore wind would be better for Shetland economically than sheep. But having been on Shetland a few times, I am fully aware

Are there any rewilding efforts going on on Shetland? I know that sheep are part of the cultural landscape there, but it is clear on the ground that they also have a big impact on the physical landscape. In Shetland, it's mostly not a matter of forest regrowth (or growth), but whether

Speaking as a part time Brit, and upon further reflection I am SURE this meant you intended to join the Royal Astronomical society, or (if you are already a member) to pay your annual dues.

It never pays to try to placate bullies)

... might be described as "pre-emptive," but they can not in any sense be considered "defensive," and they make the U.K. complicit in Trump's illegal and ill-considered war. (Not that this has been enough to placate Trump, who is still lambasting Starmer for not going far enough

It is tortuous logic to describe these authorized strikes as "defensive." They are strikes on Iranian territory. "Defensive" might apply to helping to shoot down weapons directed at UK military installations, or at civilians. These strikes Starmer authorized the UK bases to be used for ...

What, people who want to bring on the End Times have the launch codes to the U.S. nuclear arsenal? Be afraid. Be very afraid. And vote the demons out of office at your very first opportunity.

If it's an acronym, I'd guess Royal Astronomical Society.