Birth Transformed

A start up to help women mentally prepare for child birth, so that they can have the experience they plan for

[The Wright Rebecca @Rebecca08510632]

Astonishing that there's no coverage of what's now a pretty major flood event across Argyll & Bute. Both of the main routes are closed with multiple flooding, mudslides & landslides, bus passengers overnighting in Lochgilphead High School & Oban folk taking stranded people in.

[Dave Jones @CleanPowerDave]

SUNDAY THREAD:

This week the IEA updated their groundbreaking 1.5 degree Net Zero report. I was lucky enough to be a peer reviewer, and I want to explain in my own words what I think it means..

Yes we can still keep to 1.5 degrees! Were you ready to give up? So many people were

[Erin Remblance @remblance_erin]

Over the last week I've seen a LOT of footage of flooding around the world. I thought I'd put them here in one place 🧵

#floods #ClimateEmergency #degrowth

1. Greece (1/13)

https://t.co/8KIqammOjj

[Birth Transformed @betterbirthing]

@TfL I have been trying to set up an account all morning, and it keeps crashing…tried on phone and laptop, is there an issue at your end?

[TfL @TfL]

@purrplepumpkinn I've tested the link it seems to be working just fine. Please try again or a different device. ^PS

[Simon Evans @DrSimEvans]

Climate change and the environment is the fourth most important issue facing the UK, according to the latest official @ONS public attitudes tracker

69% cited this issue, ahead of housing, crime, immigration and war

That's up 7 points, from 62% a fortnight earlier

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

A typical European car is parked 92% of the time. It spends 1/5th of its driving time looking for parking. Its 5 seats only move 1.5 people. 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels, & most of the energy that does, moves the car, not people.

Sound efficient?

HT @circulareconomy

[Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama]

Covid is going up pretty significantly everywhere right now, so I say this as a caution, not for sympathy: my life is nearly unrecognizable since I got Covid in 2022. I have what’s considered very mild long Covid. What does that mean?…

[Ed Hawkins @ed_hawkins]

Latest observations of global temperature change shown as a 'climate spiral' using monthly averages from January 1850 to June 2023.

Uses @metoffice HadCRUT5 dataset, representing change relative to the 1850-1900 'pre-industrial' era.

[Dr Charlie Gardner (also on the blue place) @CharlieJGardner]

1/ Inspired by the arrival of this beauty, here’s a thread of books that help us understand and overcome the barriers that people put up to save ourselves from having to think about climate change and take action
#ClimatePsychology 🧵

[Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 🌏 🦣 @rahmstorf]

Here's a thread in pictures about the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC which is making headlines this week. I've studied this topic since 1991 and will show key data and models & some video.
Let's go: observed temperature trend since 1901 from https://t.co/jGHxmrjzLG 🧵1/x

[Sam Wilkin @MrSamWilkin]

I didn't take any flights for almost 4 years, ending a couple of weeks ago.

Here's what I learned. Also, ask me anything! 🧵

[Cat in the Hat 🐈‍⬛ 🎩 🇬🇧 @_CatintheHat]

EXCESS DEATHS… a thread🧵

There have been 25,700 excess deaths in the UK so far this year (source: CMI).

That averages out at OVER 1,000 excess deaths a week.

Now I hope you’re sitting comfortably because I’ve been doing some digging & there’s a lot more to this story…

[Leif Bersweden @LeifBersweden]

Today is #NationalMeadowsDay! 🥳 The loss of our uplifting hay meadow habitats in the UK makes my heart hurt, so I want to share with you the secret for turning your lawn into a mini wildflower meadow for *free* 👊

🧵 (1/9)

[Prof. Eliot Jacobson @EliotJacobson]

It finally happened, breaking 5 sigma, the same statistical threshold physicists used to prove the existence of the Higgs boson.

At 2,700,000 km² below the 1991-2020 mean, Antarctic sea ice extent was 5.14σ below the mean, roughly a 1-in-7,400,000 chance.

[Carla Francome @carlafrancome]

Well, I’ve got a nice “unhappy cyclist” photo to add to your stock library collections folks, as today I was mugged on my bike.

Not whilst stopped at lights, or on the pavement, but whilst actually cycling.

I was riding along this *charming* stretch here, when … 1/7

[Zack Labe @ZLabe]

Global temperature anomalies by month through May 2023. I find this type of data much more concerning than brief regional extreme graphs.

Note: M = sunspot cycle max, m = sunspot cycle min, V = volcano

[Data from @NASAGISS. Graphic was created by https://t.co/tP5cIFhS8T]

[The Bee Guy @the_beeguy]

Many people asking us about #bumblebees at the moment - why they’re seeing them on the ground - so here’s a quick thread to explain what they’re up to. Please #retweet as every #queen that survives means a new colony that gets to exist & produce new queen #bees for next year! 1/8

[Dr Charlie Gardner (also on the blue place) @CharlieJGardner]

Why is individual action* on climate change and the destruction of nature so powerful and important?

Well, imagine yourself at a concert or party where you've had a couple of drinks, the music's getting good... but nobody's dancing

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