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Richard J 🍞🍺 @half_tree

Retired geologist still with a curiosity about lumps of rock, especially if they came from the mantle in a kimberlite. Lived in lots of countries.

Joined July 2011
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Average temperature in England has trended in lockstep with sunshine hours. Since temperature can't influence sunshine, it must be sunshine (albedo) dictating temperature.
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Saskia
@Saskiaaa_____
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Β£26436.80 is the new min wage annual salary (40 hrs p/wk). And as the min wage rises, regular salaries don't. So many people will begin to ask themselves 'why am I working this highly stressful job that needed qualifications and a tonne of bullshit paperwork and police checks just to earn 5k more a year than I would stacking shelves at Lidl?'
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US gasoline futures rising all the time. Once they reach $4 then it means $5 at US gas stations and the end of the Iran war. No President can tolerate 5$ gas.
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For England February 2026 was a relatively wet (16th wettest in 190 years), dull (6th least sunshine in 116 years) and warm (5th warmest in 142 years) month, but no records broken.
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England mean temperature has increased by a little over 1 degree C so far this century. Sunshine hours and CO2 have both increased by over 10%. The relation of temperature to sunshine is much better than to CO2, however.
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January 2026 in England was normal in all the key climatic indicators, against slowly increasing trends in sunshine, temperature and rainfall January was "typical".
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Ed Conway
@EdConwaySky
Jan 16
🚨Our film is up We spent months making thisπŸ‘‡ About how Britain shut down many of the factories we need to feed us and defend us. Will have more to say on it in due course but in the meantime - pls watch, share and let me know what you think youtube.com/watch?v=PQ3hT8tq…

The UK is losing the industry that makes everything

Sky's economics and data editor Ed Conway investigates the crisis f...

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Climate data are in for December from @metoffice showing the month waas wholly unremarkable for December, in line with slowly warming, wetter and sunnier trend seen for over 100 years.
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The December weather data for England are out from @metoffice and the close annual relationship of sunshine hours and mean temperature continues. Maybe the 🌞 has something to do with temperature after all?
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November climate data for England are in from @metoffice and monthly temperature, rainfall and temperature were all within normal ranges consistent with a slowly warming, slightly wetter and slightly sunnier climate over the last two centuries.
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An ice age in the Northern Hemisphere whilst the global average temperature is higher than today is impossible mathematically.
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Global sea surface temperatures are now the lowest they have been since 2018. Dramatic sea surface temperature fall off while CO2 still on the rise. Perhaps the panic in 2023/4 by the @EliotJacobson "6 sigma" crew was not warranted?
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Yesterday was a proper cold day in England. In the coldest of 5% of November 20th for both maximum and minimum temperature since 1878. #ClimateCrisis
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A cold snap for England, but we had much lower minimum temperature in 2005. The maximum was in the coldest 6% of all 19/11 since 1878 though.
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Average heavy rain days (>10mm) per year increased from 17 to 19 over the last 50 years, but average rainfall on a heavy rain day remained the same (14mm). NO sign of floodmageddon #climatecrisis in England, anyway.
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October has proven that renewables are useless to power the UK. In the last week there has been no wind and little sun. Fossil fuels supplied 60% of UK electricity and renewables just 10%. Even with 5x renewables and a Β£400 bln battery the lights would still be off @Ed_Miliband
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For UK renewable energy aficionados, the last week is an object lesson as to why they are hopeless. No wind, little sun, lights on only thanks to gas (and imports, nuclear and tree-burning). Batteries? Maybe, if we have Β£300 billion to spare.
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This is no way to power a modern economy. Β£250 billion of heavily subsidised intermittent renewables contributed just 16% of UK power over the last week. Thanks goodness for reliable fossil fuels (55%).
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