Michael Merrifield

Emeritus professor of astronomy at the University of Nottingham. All my own views. Here for interest, so anyone who doesn’t interest me gets blocked.

[Michael Merrifield @AstroMikeMerri]

Time to update my pinned post, just because this selfie makes me very happy.

(Monku View Point on @hermisland, 26 July 2022 at 11PM. 2s exposure on @SonyAlpha 6600 with Samyang 12mm f2 lens, pushed to ISO 10000, just reprocessed with @Lightroom’s amazing AI noise reduction.)

[Michael Merrifield @AstroMikeMerri]

@RogerHelmerMEP Surely you are bright enough to understand that the price is driven by the fact that it is set by ludicrously-expensive gas, even when gas is only generating a tiny fraction of the electricity.

If you actually cared about energy costs, you’d argue to break this daft link.

[Michael Merrifield @AstroMikeMerri]

@CO2Coalition Is that the William Happer who found, when he stopped waving his hands about and did actual physics, that increasing CO2 would continue to warm the planet… at exactly the same rate that all the other climate scientists predicted.

Strange that he never mentions that, huh?

[Michael Merrifield @AstroMikeMerri]

“Lalala… we’re not listening… so nothing bad can be happening.”

[PBS News @NewsHour]

Starting this month, more than 900 deep-sea ocean sensors will be pulled out of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans off the coast of Washington, Oregon, Alaska, North Carolina and Greenland. https://t.co/jmm86WQNcY

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@anon_opin I
“Beyond the Moon”

[Michael Merrifield @AstroMikeMerri]

@benjaminbutter @WalkerMarcus I think you misinterpreted their looks.

[Michael Merrifield @AstroMikeMerri]

@JPMajor @astro_jaz Best to avoid the ones upstairs with the open top.

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@wilburcobb8 @ABridgen Gosh, Epstein lied when he was boasting. Hold the presses.

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@imdavidbryan @ChrisGloninger Actually marginally decelerating in Rio, which shows that there’s more to sea level rise than just the global issue and why you shouldn’t cherrypick locations, but still a serious issue:

https://t.co/ERBvCYXDPB

But you didn’t want a serious answer to your silly meme, did you?

[Michael Merrifield @AstroMikeMerri]

@alan_shropshire @jfnaylor @MollyAhmed @Barker4Kate @david_sheryn @PaulRusselle 5/10. Some guesses worked; others not so much.

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@Konrad_Chapman @conspiracyb0t Plonker.

[Michael Merrifield @AstroMikeMerri]

@Briankeating Can we?

[Michael Merrifield @AstroMikeMerri]

@ABridgen Oh grow up.

“Under Christian influence,” society turned a blind eye to wife beating, and priests got away with molesting children.

[Michael Merrifield @AstroMikeMerri]

So, while they were worrying about whether I was going to die, I was mostly concerned about what car they were going to bring!

(it was, of course, idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, a disease I have amused myself with by telling every doctor who asked about past illnesses.)3/3

[Michael Merrifield @AstroMikeMerri]

BTW, there’s a story that goes with this little case. When I was three-ish, I started getting masses of bruises for no reason. Doctors concluded that I either had idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, and would probably be OK, or I had leukaemia, and… would die. 1/3

[Michael Merrifield @AstroMikeMerri]

So I was shipped off to St Thomas’ Hospital for a spinal tap to test for leukaemia. Each day I was there my parent came to visit, and brought me another matchbox toy to go in the case they had given me. 2/3

[Michael Merrifield @AstroMikeMerri]

@MLiebreich @e2dot7182818284 @TheDisproof @EU_Commission @Elec_All @AdrianHiel @CleaningUpPod Here is one of the more interesting papers that cites his work.

https://t.co/t7xiFUUZzp

[Michael Merrifield @AstroMikeMerri]

@DarrenPlymouth It wasn’t. Which is why there was no flu at all in New Zealand at the point where there was also no Covid in the country.

[Michael Merrifield @AstroMikeMerri]

I knew there was a reason why Hoveringham rang a very faint bell, and my hunch was confirmed when I went digging in the attic. When I was very young, it really was a gravel pit.

[Michael Merrifield @AstroMikeMerri]

Turned out to be a nice afternoon, so off to explore Hoveringham Railway Lake. High point (unphotographed) was finding myself face-to-face with a deer heading the other way on the path. I am not sure who was more surprised. 🪶

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@redpillb0t You could ask what actual climate experts like @MichaelEMann thought of this idiot at the time.

But that wouldn’t appeal to your nitwit conspiracist target audience, would it?

https://t.co/BYYq5yGYq0

[Michael Merrifield @AstroMikeMerri]

@CharLieonemore Yes, that’s definitely what was happening. Not just aircraft contrails at all.