Dr Keith Walker @SteelFolk@qoto.org

Wildly different circumstances, of course, but both Post Office and Afghan war crimes inquiries show how weak ministers are in their own departments.

Post Office ministers were fed false information, Mercer was not given access to information he was asking for.

And as parliamentary accountability requires ministers to be responsible to parliament, there is a huge system failure.

Ministers cannot be meaningfully accountable if they are given false or no information by their departments.

GIGO

#SilentSunday #Skye #Scotland

„It’s estimated that in 2023 the heat content in the upper two thousand metres of the oceans increased by at least nine zettajoules. For comparison’s sake, the world’s annual energy consumption amounts to about 0.6 zettajoules.“

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/why-is-the-sea-so-hot

Electronic advertising is a climate crime that makes our public spaces more hostile

The giant screen at Euston Station boasts of saving energy, while using more electricity than the average street, just to serve us adverts we didn't consent to see

https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2024/03/electronic-advertising-is-a-climate-crime-that-makes-our-public-spaces-more-hostile/

Have a look at our simulation of the air-sea #CO2 flux and surface wind speed in a high-resolution #EarthSystemModel model ICON 👇
https://youtu.be/63NZSPjxv6w

I find September particularly fascinating in this animation. A hurricane in the Western Atlantic entirely messes up the CO2 flux. Here, the immediate effect is that the hurricane enhances the outgassing of CO2. Behind it, the flux swaps the sign and there is uptake of CO2.

#ilyinaScience

Why Speaker was wrong not to call Diane Abbott to speak at PMQs

Why she should have been allowed to speak for herself in an exceptional circumstance

And how the Speaker's excuse for not doing so fails to convince

By me, at Prospect

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/65293/the-speaker-was-wrong-not-to-call-diane-abbott-to-speak-at-pmqs

"It is almost as if the world is telling us a morbid joke: we will kill you if you resist and kill you if you hide, and if you refuse, and if you concede, and we will devour your land and gulp your oceans and kill you with hunger and thirst.

The massacres will be televised, broadcast in broad daylight."

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/03/are-we-indeed-all-palestinians/

#Palestine

We've started a newsletter! @emilymbender want to keep you updated on everything in the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 universe.

We'll have episode drops, special additional AI hype take-downs, rants, and more Fresh AI Hell than we can fit into the pod.

https://buttondown.email/maiht3k

Blue #lava, also known as Api BiruIt produces an electric-blue flame due to the emission of excited sulfur atoms releasing energy as blue light. Read more here:
https://www.geologyin.com/2014/06/spectacular-neon-blue-lava-pours-from.html?fbclid=IwAR36kOgi_POLCbLCfXulT-URuKhD_ZMVAlFQDS9xMgvx2cCM6ioKWLfF7kw
By #GeologyWonders
#Geology #GeologyPage #Nature #minerals #crystals #gems #Nature #NatureLovers #NaturePhotography #Photographer

Well worth a listen

When It Hits the Fan | The Palace in crisis on Podbean https://www.podbean.com/ea/dir-jj88a-1db0de7d

Well, in case anyone was starting to think that Biden had any sort of empathy for the Palestinians, the answer is: NO. The shameful temporary port is for helping Israel to get rid of UNRWA, having more control over Gaza, and absolving Israel from the accusation of starving people.

That's all so sickening.

https://twitter.com/muhammadshehad2/status/1767513248285213133

Sometimes marketing is all about waiting long enough for your audience to forget about the 80s and 90s.

I love how ALDI celebrates this brilliant new design that saves 40% of plastic by removing the plastic lid.

Lastest data: 🥺

+ Carbon dioxide (*new monthly record*)
+ Methane (*new monthly record*)
+ Nitrous oxide (*new monthly record*)

Observations provided by https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/

#Kyanite is a beautiful blue mineral that is typically found in metamorphic rocks. It is an aluminum silicate mineral, with the chemical formula Al₂SiO₅. Kyanite is known for its bladed crystals, Read more here:
https://www.geologyin.com/2024/03/kyanite-properties-occurrence-uses.html?fbclid=IwAR3lup-OlmvFyou8p4DoyT_yGi2lI7Z16lo9zytut2FhS-60bVKnY56nWNU
By #GeologyWonders
#Geology #GeologyPage #Nature #minerals #crystals #gems #Nature #NatureLovers #NaturePhotography #Photographer

International Women Day 2024

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/mar/05/my-period-has-become-nightmare-life-in-gaza-without-sanitary-products

A great article by @STAT's newsletter strategist Alexa Lee: #Puberty is hitting girls earlier, bringing with it mental and social hurdles.

"I didn’t get to explain the educational part of puberty to her before it took place. We were stuck dealing with the changes and learning all at the same time."

https://www.statnews.com/2024/03/07/girls-precocious-puberty-mental-health/

#health #healthcare #medicine #adolescence #menstruation

It's fascinating how quick we are to assign value based on pay, yet slow to recognize the immense contribution of caretakers, artists, and volunteers. What if we flipped the script? Universal Basic Income isn't just about money—it's about valuing all forms of work, paid or not.

Please repost: #job in #climatescience
I am looking to fill positions in my group at Universitaet Hamburg and @MPI_Meteo

👉Postdoc examining the response of the ocean carbon storage to abrupt events during the last deglaciation
https://www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangebote/ausschreibung.html?jobID=13da546994dd624cdb680d4ab26a89af41aedb89

👉Postdoc developing the ocean carbon cycle in emission-driven ICON ESM
https://www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangebote/ausschreibung.html?jobID=e6e26a5f837885c12285f9902ac36689f720f611

👉PhD investigating mechanisms of predictability of compound extreme events in the ocean and their effects on the carbon sink
https://jobs.mpimet.mpg.de/jobposting/fcb8fa96c351b278f4199dea84df1c5ff57bf0630