Adam Long

Big into nature and landscape via climbing, photography, field recording etc. BMC access and conservation volunteer, Director at

[Adam Long @adam_jb_long]

Half a century after observations of starlight proved general relativity, we were just beginning to understand the most basic facts of our own planet.

[History_of_Geology @Geology_History]

"Continental drift, a theory often considered amusing but rarely important, seems about to become the focus of a revolution in geology"
from "Drifting theories shake up geology," a Science News article published on April 29, 1967 🌍

[National Energy System Operator @neso_energy]

🧵 Record-breaking day for Great Britain's electricity system! ⚡

1/ On 22 April, we hit a new zero-carbon record, with zero-carbon sources providing 98.8% of our electricity.

[Assaad Razzouk @AssaadRazzouk]

For the first time in history, clean power met every single unit of new global demand. Fossil generation didn't just plateau, it fell by 38 TWh, even as the global economy grew by 3.2%. No recession needed to kill the rise: this is structural
>Solar alone met 75% of new global demand
>Renewables (33.8%) officially crushed coal (33.0%) for the first time in 100 years
>Total fossil generation is now in a permanent terminal plateau

If you think gas is the "bridge," it’s already burning. With stationary battery costs down a staggering 45% in just 1 year, there is nowhere left for gas to hide when the sun goes down

The economics are settled. The electrification of everything is accelerating. Betting on fossil fuels today is exactly like betting on whale oil while Edison was turning on the lightbulb

[Adam Long @adam_jb_long]

@BrokenBennett Shit! Hope it heals quick Nat!

[MetJam @MetJam_]

The oldest maximum temperature date record on record (based on @TorroUK records) has been exceeded this afternoon provisionally, with 24.2°C at Mona on the Isle of Anglesey in Wales. The previous record was 23.6°C set at Oxford in 1859 - 167 YEARS AGO!

[Andy Saunders - Apollo Remastered @AndySaunders_1]

"Earthrise" - one of the most iconic photographs ever taken, wasn't planned!
As the world awaits the images from the Artemis II fly-by later today, how was was the original "Earthrise" photograph, captured?
Here's part of an hour long interview I did with @cspanhistory recently.

[Prof. Eliot Jacobson @EliotJacobson]

It appears the 365-day running mean for the global sea-surface temperature may have bottomed out and may be on the way up again.

Fun fact: the current SST is hotter than any recorded SST prior to 2023.

[resident @residentmusic]

THE EARLY YEARS
Modern Moonlight
Limited Clear Neon Yellow LP / CD
Preorder: https://t.co/6jSnGMviTH

10 years after their last album (which we seem to recall being a BIG hit amongst: ourselves! (& many more)), The Early Years return with a striking work of cerebral, somewhat intoxicating rock, capable of transporting us to dimensions well worth spending a lot of time in

[James Blunt Force Trauma @SheffdeParty]

There's been a saga in the Sheffield subreddit where people are going to a specific co-op on eccy road and delighting in the freezers that are seemingly tuned to a C# chord.

https://t.co/SXSuirYJAL

Someone finally recorded it, it's fucking beautiful.

[Not the Bee @Not_the_Bee]

This is either the least skilled or most skilled run I’ve ever seen on moguls, but I can’t tell which.

[Nahel Belgherze @WxNB_]

Grazalema, Spain, received over 2,000 mm (78 inches) of rain in just the last 20 days.

Over a year’s worth of rain — and it’s only early February. This is hydrologically absurd.

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

Govt suppressed this horrifying report last year, sneaking it out now while attention elsewhere, no doubt hoping to bury dire implications of likely ecosystem collapse. Ministers must urgently step up, change direction & restore vital life support systems https://t.co/TMdoXBuhMD

[Zachary C @Zach_wx]

#BCStorm #BCwx #BCStormWatch #SpaceWeather #Aurora

A major impact just a short while ago from the X1.95 flare-related CME, which has arrived earlier than anticipated!

Bt values are in the ~25-50nT range with a peak of 90+nT (RECORD) on arrival, Bz has been mainly strong south (below -25), and G4 conditions have already been experienced, with up to G5 is possible if said conditions persist! This is with solar wind speeds unavailable due to the radiation storm, which are likely near or above 1000 km/s!

Historic impact all round, including the S4/severe radiation storm we are currently experiencing! Overall, this is by far one of the (if not the) strongest CME impacts since the October '03 event (& the strongest this solar cycle), & one of the strongest solar radiation storms on record (& the strongest this solar cycle), surpassing the October '03 event.

Southern BC, get ready...

[Adam Long @adam_jb_long]

@ClimbingCoachX @JuananNuevo Turned into a tallness competition sadly, but also the whole thing was on an overhanging board so stepping onto the handholds was much harder and iirc not allowed anyway!

[UK Weather Updates @UKWX_]

#StormGoretti latest peak wind gusts

Needles Old Battery (Isle of Wight) - 74mph
Camborne (Cornwall) - 81mph
Culdrose (Cornwall) - 90mph
St Mary's (Scilly) - 99mph

[Alastair Wright @Pott_Shrigley_]

Dawn over Sheffield

[James Peacock @peacockreports]

🌇

Due to a quirk of the Earth's orbit (not quite circular), sunset times vary very little in December.

In the northern hemisphere, it will become slightly sooner through to 7th, then change very little through 18th, before starting to shift later (very slowly at first).

[Alastair Wright @Pott_Shrigley_]

Sorby Hall of Residence on Endliffe Vale Road in 1968, demolished by controlled explosion 2006.
#Sheffield

[Prof. Eliot Jacobson @EliotJacobson]

Breaking News!
Code UFB!!!

The three-year running mean for the global surface temperature anomaly now exceeds 1.50°C over the pre-industrial baseline, as of November 8, 2025.

Are you there, COP 30? It's me, the Paris Agreement.

[James Peacock @peacockreports]

2025 delivered the warmest 1st-6th November in the 254-year Hadley mean CET series, knocking 1996 down to 2nd.

For 1st-7th, the record highest is nearly 0.5°C lower. Today is extremely mild again for the CET region. So we can expect that record to be well beaten by 2025.