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Recovering banker, messing around investing in the energy transition at Greencoat. Type1 father. Farmer’s husband
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Seven years on from when the then-schoolgirl Greta Thunberg first began her simple call for action on climate change, it's remarkable - and so telling - that she is *still* living rent free in the minds of some of the world's most privileged and powerful men

submitted 13 days ago • 6 comments

JD Vance’s Munich Security Conference speech has gone down well…in Moscow. Komsomolskaya Pravda headline: “Humiliated Europe out for the count. Its American master flogged its old vassals.”

submitted 13 days ago • 44 comments

If only there had been some kind of warning - on.ft.com/40Zncmv

submitted 13 days ago • 215 comments

It's been a long time since Private Eye's satire has made me audibly wince, but this is so to the point if it were a knife people would demand it be banned.

submitted 13 days ago • 16 comments

The @Telegraph excels itself today with the claim that @NaturalEngland is ‘ideologically wedded to concept of conservation’. This is our job, & we do it as a matter of legal requirement. Would be odd for a conservation organisation to do anything else. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02...

submitted 14 days ago • 26 comments

Last few days to apply for this amazing job working with me and the rest of the team

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Media and other commentary on todays GDP and yesterday’s CPI combines undue weight on monthly numbers and, very often, a lack of interest in what is actually being measured and the range of uncertainty

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

1. As Zuckerberg abandons fact checking in the name of “free speech”, let’s take a moment to examine this concept. 🧵

submitted 51 days ago • 50 comments

Heat pumps. Sounds like a niche topic, but gas heating is on the way out over the next few decades and for most people, heat pumps will be the obvious replacement. Find out more on The Happy Heat Pump Podcast.. on all main podcast platforms. open.spotify.com/show/3xGCOyx...

submitted 57 days ago • 6 comments

THREE KEY ENERGY CHOICES IN 2025 that I expect to have the energy wonk-o-sphere all in a flap: a thread. /1

submitted 58 days ago • 3 comments

Never has there been more appeal energy in one frame #AUSvIND #cricket

submitted 60 days ago • 21 comments

2024 was the warmest year in the Netherlands (1901-). At 11.8°C, the average temperature was roughly equal to last year's, almost 3°C above the 20th century average.

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

Indian Ocean tsunami: how survivors found love after Boxing Day disaster

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment

As we begin this 8 day Festival of Lights we are reminded of the wisdom of #Buddha “When you light a lamp for someone else, it also brightens your path.” My Best, Bill

submitted 64 days ago • 18 comments

Good profile of Greg Jackson in the Economist…. Important para on Uk great place to start, not easy to scale…..

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

🇬🇧 Patriotic heat pumps 🇬🇧 By 2030, w/ renewables roll out: 🔎1.3MWh: amount of imported primary energy a heat pump would use (55%⬇️than 2024) 🆚 🔎7.6MWh: imported gas a boiler would use, (80% dependent on imports, 1/3⬆️than 2024) buff.ly/3Z66QHH

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment