Simon Clark

Well that was deeply unpleasant

The stream will feature in the video recapping the swim in a week or two!

In the meantime if you laughed at my discomfort you are legally* required to donate to my fundraiser
givewheel.com/fundraising/...

* not legally binding

drsimonclark - Twitch I make YouTube videos improving your climate literacy. I stream sometimes.

We are about to go live!!
twitch.tv/drsimonclark

Finally earning that otter status

When I announced my half marathon swim I promised that if we raised £5,000 I would get my chest waxed on stream.

Well, today we hit £27k.

So at 5PM today on twitch.tv/drsimonclark I'll be in extreme discomfort.

Be there, have a laugh at my pain, and please donate <3

a meme comparing the reaction of "normal people" and "youtubers" to the statement "your video is 10/10!". The normal person treats this as positive news, interpreting 10/10 to be a rating of quality. The youtuber treats this as deeply negative news, interpreting 10/10 to be a measure of the video's performance relative to their 10 most recent uploads.

For sure, it's the same basic playbook but they do it in the open in the US

u.s. department of energy post on x praising coal: "She's an icon She's a legend And she is the moment [sparkly picture of coal]

If a scholar of petro-masculinity said that men lust for coal, it would be seen as an exaggeration. But here we are...

It's finally the week of my HALF MARATHON SWIM and I'm delighted to say we've now raised over £25,000 for Dorothy House and @cancerresearchuk.org

Can we get to my target of £30k before I finish the swim on Thursday afternoon?

🔗 Fundraiser link: www.givewheel.com/fundraising/...

YouTube video by Simon Clark You've been lied to about Net Zero

Let's talk about how the right wing lie about net zero

youtu.be/bX1n25rN8yg

BOEM Rescinds All Offshore Wind Energy Areas in Major Policy Reversal The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced yesterday it has rescinded all designated Wind Energy Areas (WEAs) on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf, effectively ending the federal designatio...

RIP US offshore wind. US Bureau of Offshore Energy Management rescinds ALL areas designated for offshore wind energy development in federal waters.
gcaptain.com/boem-rescind... 🔌💡

A week today I will (hopefully!) be finishing up my mammoth half marathon swim to raise money for my local cancer hospice and @cancerresearchuk.org!

If you would like to help, please contribute at:

www.givewheel.com/fundraising/...

98%

That's the decrease in the annual number of single-use plastic bags in the UK since a 5p charge started 10 years ago (it's now 10p)

Not all environmental problems are that easy to tackle, but change is possible

Resharing the Mail's 2015 splash, which has aged well

www.gov.uk/government/p...

When ICE Agents Are Waiting Outside the Courtroom An asylum seeker and her children face the terrifying new reality of immigration hearings.

Since the spring, federal agents have been patrolling government buildings in New York City, waiting to arrest migrants as soon as they step out of a courtroom, regardless of the status of their case.

This is truly sad news. Tom Lehrer was a big musical and comedic influence on me, being introduced to his work as a young teenager.

And to think, by his age Mozart had already been dead for 62 years!

World's top court opens door to compensation from countries responsible for climate crisis International Court of Justice rules that governments have a legal duty to prevent and repair damage to the climate system

Breathtaking ruling from the ICJ.

Will this single handedly solve the climate crisis?

Of course not.

But it's a valuable new tool in the task of pushing major polluters to change their ways.

www.climatechangenews.com/2025/07/23/w...

We have now officially raised over £1 for every metre I will be swimming next month!
Can you help us hit the new target of £30k before the swim?
www.givewheel.com/fundraising/...

Raymond Holt from Brooklyn 99 has multiples of his eyes over his forehead, asking "Why is everyone afraid? I specifically requested the opposite"

I think a cynic would say that tipping points researchers see tipping points everywhere, even in the complete absence of a fulcrum :P

Given that I almost exclusively talk to passionate, educated people on this topic, it's very easy to forget how low the average person's climate and statistical literacies are

There's so much work to do improving both and we have no alternative but to do it

Just made the mistake of looking in the comments section of a popular post on Facebook about climate solutions

Oof

me working at my desk with questionable posture

me going :D in a broken mirror

my name misspelled on a lanyard

me standing looking a bit overawed in a wraparound viewing gallery

New patreon vlog is out! Patrons get access to exclusive content every month, most notably an extended BTS vlog showing how I write and film my videos, give you sneak peeks of upcoming projects, and snippets of other side projects

www.patreon.com/simonoxfphys

Thank you so much to everyone who has contributed to the fundraiser so far - we've now officially hit £20k!

In fact we hit it just before I got in the pool for my longest training swim.

If we could hit £30k before the half marathon that would be amazing!

www.givewheel.com/fundraising/...

Oh man this would be a cool video

Next month I'll be swimming for around 8 hours non-stop to raise money for our local cancer hospice

Can you be the person to get the fundraiser to our £20k goal?

givewheel.com/fundraising/...

He helped Microsoft build AI to help the climate. Then Microsoft sold it to Big Oil. A former Microsoft project manager reveals how the tech giant is using AI to help Big Oil drill—and how he and his partner are now pushing for change.

NEW: A former Microsoft AI engineer says the company's "AI for sustainability" claims are BS, a distraction from their hyper-polluting AI contracts with oil companies.

“From what I saw," he said, "I believe that finding and extracting more oil is one of the biggest use cases of AI today."

Absolutely, but performative bullshit that will shake investor confidence and quite probably increase costs on government contracts

This what we're up against.

Reform UK are acting like the thugs of the fossil fuel mafia.

It is imperative that the UK does not retreat from it's excellent progress on net zero to date. We started the fossil-fuelled industrial revolution and we can also show the way past it.

well I guess I need to find someone who does chest waxing then

If you would like to support the fundraiser please donate at simonswim.giving <3

YouTube video by Simon Clark I’m doing this in honour of my dad

Two years ago I lost my dad to cancer.

He used to run marathons for our local cancer hospice and taught me to love the water by taking me swimming every week.

So in his memory I'm raising money for the hospice not by running a half marathon... but by swimming one

youtu.be/w5IfDfsazog