Mark

Physician and medical researcher

[Mark @mark1966uk]

@horsemankukka @Met4CastUK The graph does 'look' normally distributed but it's a small sample in this context and there might be significant skew.

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@CornixCorone @Met4CastUK The figure says 1996 - 2025 which I would say is a small sample when considering the climate and suggesting the recent high is 1 in 87000 yr occurrence.

[Mark @mark1966uk]

@neso_energy Fixed it for you:
Our forecasts are showing tight margins on the electricity system for tomorrow evening. This is due to the impact of too much intermittent energy affecting Great Britain.

[Mark @mark1966uk]

@afneil I would say the govt response to the pandemic rather than pandemic...

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@toadmeister @mattwridley The effect of CO2 on climate has been exaggerated and on greening almost entirely unreported. I wonder if this relates to the ease of monetising fear?

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@KemiBadenoch If they can’t see it already I doubt they ever will. Green zealotry is a new religion, and it’s not even really green…

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@lisakeb007 @DailyMail He needs to grow a pair and explain to Ed that net zero is an unaffordable and largely pointless exercise - many sensible countries are quietly long-grassing it…

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@PennyMordaunt Their priorities are not the priorities of the country…

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@mattwridley Now that was some climate change - must have been all the dinosaur flatus…

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@KathrynPorter26 Get well soon and make sure the old blood pressure’s not being elevated by the X posts of all these scientifically illiterate MPs and mad Ed.

Enjoyed the Andrew Gold interview very much btw…

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@toadmeister @WilliamClouston Hopefully future leaders inhabiting the real world and not living in some sort of quasi religious parallel universe will ‘bin’ this nonsense…

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@ClaireCoutinho There are many examples in medicine where incidence and outcomes of diseases are differ by ethnic group including several that are relevant to obstetrics…

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@KemiBadenoch Massively sensible

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@zatzi They're almost out of other people's money to spend....

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@SunilSharmaUK Also, these very high temps were recorded in areas with significant UHI effects. This increases as cities enlarge with fewer green areas and trees. I'd be interested to see if May records were quite so impressively broken in rural areas. AI says the data's not in yet...

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@AndrewPRLevi Health outcomes for serious diseases compare poorly to many other western countries. I think the NHS is 'cheap' because it's relatively underfunded and to fund it properly out of general taxation would mean a large tax hike.

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@Hudsonweather What's a climate sceptic? If you mean that's someone who's sceptical that govts. can control the climate via C02 regulations then count me in. But I'm 100% certain that the climate changes over time...

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@Artemisfornow And there's a great deal more concrete these days which causes cities to act like giant storage heaters, especially keeping the night time temperature up...

Bit I guess there's not a lucrative narrative in de-'concretisation'...

[Mark @mark1966uk]

@benonwine Hot and dry for weeks on end - I was just a teenager and it was great from that perceptive - roaming around in the countryside. Parents tried to push a hat and suncream, but I don't think anyone did that. Nor did we carry water around...