Dr Keith Walker @SteelFolk@qoto.org
Steel industry metallurgical specialist.
Joined Nov 2022
Dr Keith Walker
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"There’s no immediate danger of the U.S. losing its 'exorbitant privilege', but if it continues to dance with default, eventually the world will lose patience and start seriously seeking alternatives to the dollar and the UST. Indeed, that process may already have begun"
Dr Keith Walker
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In the red states of Kansas, Kentucky, Montana and Ohio, where the people have had a chance to vote statewide, abortion rights have won out. This is a loser issue for the GOP and a galvanizing one for Democrats everywhere.
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Once again.
It is an express part of the Good Friday Agreement that the ECHR is enforceable in Northern Ireland
The UK cannot quit the ECHR without either breaching or renegotiating the Good Friday Agreement. And Ireland will never agree to removing the Convention rights of the nationalist community in Northern Ireland.
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Es ist nicht das erste Mal, dass die 1,5⁰C Erwärmungsschwelle überschritten wird. Während eines starken El Niño im Jahr 2015 lag die globale Durchschnittstemperatur einige Tage lang um mehr als 1,5⁰C über dem vorindustriellen Niveau, wahrscheinlich zum ersten Mal im Industriezeitalter, laut Copernicus-Daten.
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Boost please British folk. Woods here are FULL of death caps. Amanita phalloides. In decades of picking I have never seen as many as here on Cambridge today. It not even usually common here. It's brutally poisonous, please share a warning to avoid it #mushtodon #fungi #mushrooms
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My look to the week ahead is out! Have a great rest of your weekend. https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/the-week-ahead-7e6?sd=pf
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Greta Thunberg pulls out of Edinburgh Book Festival over 'greenwashing'
Climate activist Greta Thunberg has pulled out of a much-anticipated event at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. She cited a sponsor's "heavy" investments in fossil fuel and accusing them of "greenwashing".
"As a climate activist I cannot attend an event which receives sponsorship from Baillie Gifford, who invest heavily in the fossil fuel industry", said the 20-year-old Swedish activist in a statement on the festival website.
Thunberg was due to speak at the event entitled "It's Not Too Late To Change The World" on August 13.
#climate #climatechange #climatecrisis
https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/08/04/greta-thunberg-pulls-out-of-edinburgh-book-festival-over-greenwashing
@freemo I have found it tough to decide on the wages point. There have been some good debates between good politicians about it in the past, but there are few of them now of the same calibre, I'm afraid.
@freemo In the UK, Unions have much wider role than that. They may do elsewhere, I don't know. There is a long history with matters such as safety, welfare and discrimination that they played a big role in, most of it now accepted by most people as reasonable and normal. I think such things need to be treated as a different from your point.
@sciencebase I'd rather have the moths anyway. Trees are big enough.
@sciencebase I've got evidence if it on my apple an cherry trees but I've not seen it. Never known it affect fruiting though - seems harmless.
@sciencebase Always use free cutting brass for your keys. They are much easier to bust off in the lock, but cheaper to make.
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Billionaires and oil barons can build up tolerance to guillotines. Here’s how.
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There's been quite a bit of speculation in my timeline & elsewhere about #KierStarmer's pre-election tactic of trying to give the right-wing #media as little policy profile as possible to attack...
Interestingly, @davidallengreen thinks this reflects a certain sort of #litigation mindset.... if DAG is right (& it certainly seems plausible), we're left with the Q. how confident are we that post-election Starmer will have a big reveal of his 'real' political approach?
https://davidallengreen.com/2023/07/sir-keir-starmer-and-the-litigation-turn-of-mind/
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You like taking a hot bath?
That would typically have a temperature of around 38 °C.
The ocean in the Florida Keys has reached a shocking 38.4 °C.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/25/florida-ocean-temperatures-hot-tub-extreme-weather
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Eunice Foote, who was the first to measure the solar heating of CO2 already in the 1850s noted: “An atmosphere of that gas would give to our Earth a high temperature“.
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a2614102278e77e59a04f26/t/5aa1c3cf419202b500c3b388/1520550865302/foote_circumstances-affecting-heat-suns-rays_1856.pdf
It took scientists still a bit, until IPCC AR4, to prove that #climatewarming is unequivocal and leading to increased frequencies and intensities of extreme events.
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Dr Keith Walker
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The evidence that cars don’t work as primary mass transport in cities is everywhere: traffic jams, air pollution, accident rates, the shocking fraction of city space taken up by parking spaces, safety barriers/bollards etc. This 100 year experiment should be declared over, and we should put proper effort into the systems that HAVE been shown to work and scale: walking, cycling, e-cargo bikes, cheap/accessible/reliable public transport. This “argument” about LTNs is just lazy delay. #LTN #cities
Steel industry metallurgical specialist.
Joined Nov 2022
