Ian Butler

Now at [email protected]. Kayaking Sussex to Scotland by sea for RNLI Husband to the author of Starling.

[Ian Butler @TheycallhimIan]

Scratching my head as to how I'm going to get this lot in my boat. Setting off tomorrow from Sussex heading to Scotland via Land's End.
Quivering with nerves. #LEJOG #kayak #sea @RNLI #sussex

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

I once believed that the Israeli government's slaughter of civilians was indiscriminate. I was completely wrong. It is deliberate, massive and plainly genocidal.

[Ian Butler @TheycallhimIan]

@paulpowlesland @MVCP @CABI_News Argentinian weevils have been deployed in some areas as a bio control trial by @MVCP (supplied by @CABI_news) not sure how it's going?

[Ian Butler @TheycallhimIan]

Its return of the Floating pennywort today on the #riverMedway. #INNS

[Ian Butler @TheycallhimIan]

@paulpowlesland The original source of the outbreak is ~300m up from here. Over the years I've been monitoring and it's never ventured upstream from there yet. The risk is that with more outbreaks the > the chance of powered boats taking it up river. @MVCP @CABI_News

[Ian Butler @TheycallhimIan]

@paulpowlesland At the junction between Yalding Fen and the main river. Last year we had this almost clear. Lots of patches further down.

[Ian Butler @TheycallhimIan]

Sorry. It's

[The Green Party @TheGreenParty]

Israel has blocked aid from entering northern Gaza and has said clearly that Palestinians will not be allowed to return home.

This is genocide.

This is ethnic cleansing.

[watershed_investigations @WATERSHED_i]

As the government tries to quietly drop the chalk stream recovery pack, a reminder, politicians, that setting chalk streams on the path to recovery is 1 of 2 things you need to do if you want that pesky @Feargal_Sharkey to go away & leave you in peace.
#MARCHFORCLEANWATER

[Ian Butler @TheycallhimIan]

I great piece by @charlierose at the BBC on #Tunbridgewell's river Grom and those of us monitoring it's health.

[Charlie Rose @mrcharlierose]

“There used to be eels, trout and stickleback. You don’t see them now.” How a team of volunteers and ⁦@SussexUni⁩ academics are monitoring the health of the River Medway and its tributaries. Thanks to ⁦@Ripple_Sussex⁩ for letting me film them. https://t.co/9zrP1xmIeD

[Ian Butler @TheycallhimIan]

Excellent news

[Wildlife and Countryside Link @WCL_News]

Welcome news from @HouseofCommons today

We’re pleased to see @AdrianRamsay's bill, which mandates water companies and public bodies to use nature-based solutions to reduce flood risk, introduced to parliament🌊

Prioritising NBS could be a gamechanger for communities and nature

[Carbon Brief @CarbonBrief]

Factcheck: 18 misleading myths about heat pumps | @janrosenow #CBarchive

Read here: https://t.co/gmFXVJwFz8

[Iolo Williams @IoloWilliams2]

Corrupt, corrupt, corrupt 🤬🤬🤬

[Hugo Tagholm @HugoSAS]

If you’re interested in unpacking the science, facts & figures about carbon capture & storage, this video really takes you through the opportunity, potential, winners & losers.

[Ian Butler @TheycallhimIan]

@Jamie_Woodward_ @SteveReedMP Water foul

[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

"My olives, my olives"

Israelis uprooting olive trees with chainsaws and bulldozers.

Only a colonizer with no attachment to the land could be so cruel.

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

The UK seabed could annually capture almost three times the carbon soaked up by UK forests, according to new exclusive data.

As @alextomo explains, scientists are now looking to politicise mud to make the most of this vast carbon store.

https://t.co/YngnQ6hAFM

[Ian Butler @TheycallhimIan]

@SouthernWater ///bricks.washed.crouching . I found a manhole approximately 30m from here (flowing away from TW,towards Adams Well) and could hear no flow? Could there be a blockage between these two manholes?

[Ian Butler @TheycallhimIan]

Nice one. @SouthernWater @EnvAgencySE. #TunbridgeWells sewage is again going straight into the River Grom and bypassing the intended treatment plant now! @Ripple_Sussex have been reporting this for months.

[Harry Spoelstra @HarrySpoelstra]

Towards an understanding of physical activity-induced post-exertional malaise: Insights into microvascular alterations and immunometabolic interactions in post-COVID condition and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome

❗PEM: dysfunctional Mitochondria/Microcirculation!

➡️Interesting review article in which they “describe current evidence indicating that key pathophysiological features of PCC(=LC) and ME/CFS are involved in physical activity-induced PEM.

➡️“Upon physical activity, affected patients exhibit a reduced systemic oxygen extraction and oxidative phosphorylation capacity.”
➡️“Accumulating evidence suggests that these are mediated by dysfunctions in mitochondrial capacities and microcirculation that are maintained by latent immune activation, conjointly impairing peripheral bioenergetics.”
➡️“Aggravating deficits in tissue perfusion and oxygen utilization during activities cause exertional intolerance that are frequently accompanied by tachycardia, dyspnea, early cessation of activity and elicit downstream metabolic effects.”
➡️“The accumulation of molecules such as lactate, reactive oxygen species or prostaglandins might trigger local and systemic immune activation.”
➡️“Subsequent intensification of bioenergetic inflexibilities, muscular ionic disturbances and modulation of central nervous system functions can lead to an exacerbation of existing pathologies and symptoms.”

❗Importantly: “activity prescriptions should take the pathophysiological mechanisms of PCC and ME/CFS into account to attenuate the risk of provoking PEM”!

In short: With LC, "blind" exercise programs, as some advocate, are, as we already know, dangerous!
https://t.co/kBvSHq41XA