@petercracknell.bsky.social
I tweet about the climate emergency & drug law reform.
BSc Geophysics
BA Psychology
BSc Geophysics
BA Psychology
8157 at 7.31hrs 24Dec25
This petition might just reach the 10,000 threshold, by 2Jan26, for a UK goverment response.
This petition might just reach the 10,000 threshold, by 2Jan26, for a UK goverment response.
The climate crisis is accelerating - 2025 looks set to become UK’s hottest year on record. Good to see focus on importance of resilience on #r4today- pls take a moment to sign petition calling on Govt to introduce a fully funded national climate adaptation plan petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Petition: Fund a National Climate Resilience Plan: protect communities from climate impact
From floods to extreme temperatures, climate impacts risk damaging homes, health, businesses, services, and the economy. We want Government to prioritise adaptation; fund a new Resilience Plan that wo...
petition.parliament.uk
December 24, 2025 at 7:34 AM
8157 at 7.31hrs 24Dec25
This petition might just reach the 10,000 threshold, by 2Jan26, for a UK goverment response.
This petition might just reach the 10,000 threshold, by 2Jan26, for a UK goverment response.
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One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen, was filled with cars until a 2 year pedestrianization pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued “no cars means no business,” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.
December 24, 2025 at 4:56 AM
One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen, was filled with cars until a 2 year pedestrianization pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued “no cars means no business,” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.
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The climate crisis is accelerating - 2025 looks set to become UK’s hottest year on record. Good to see focus on importance of resilience on #r4today- pls take a moment to sign petition calling on Govt to introduce a fully funded national climate adaptation plan petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Petition: Fund a National Climate Resilience Plan: protect communities from climate impact
From floods to extreme temperatures, climate impacts risk damaging homes, health, businesses, services, and the economy. We want Government to prioritise adaptation; fund a new Resilience Plan that wo...
petition.parliament.uk
December 23, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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The climate crisis is accelerating - 2025 looks set to become UK’s hottest year on record. Good to see focus on importance of resilience on #r4today- pls take a moment to sign petition calling on Govt to introduce a fully funded national climate adaptation plan petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Petition: Fund a National Climate Resilience Plan: protect communities from climate impact
From floods to extreme temperatures, climate impacts risk damaging homes, health, businesses, services, and the economy. We want Government to prioritise adaptation; fund a new Resilience Plan that wo...
petition.parliament.uk
December 23, 2025 at 10:17 AM
The climate crisis is accelerating - 2025 looks set to become UK’s hottest year on record. Good to see focus on importance of resilience on #r4today- pls take a moment to sign petition calling on Govt to introduce a fully funded national climate adaptation plan petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
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My Sciencetalk interview.
#Nuclear too costly too late for #climate or energy crises.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiQq...
#Nuclear too costly too late for #climate or energy crises.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiQq...
Can Nuclear Power Solve Climate Crisis?
YouTube video by Science Talk
www.youtube.com
December 23, 2025 at 11:50 AM
My Sciencetalk interview.
#Nuclear too costly too late for #climate or energy crises.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiQq...
#Nuclear too costly too late for #climate or energy crises.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiQq...
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They are among hundreds of people who have contacted the BBC about problems with poorly installed insulation.
BBC News - Our son can't come home for Christmas after insulation mould took over - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News - Our son can't come home for Christmas after insulation mould took over - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Our son can't come home for Christmas after insulation mould took over
Mr and Mrs Wadley's 19-year-old son has asthma and cannot come home for Christmas due to mould all over the walls.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 23, 2025 at 7:30 AM
They are among hundreds of people who have contacted the BBC about problems with poorly installed insulation.
BBC News - Our son can't come home for Christmas after insulation mould took over - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News - Our son can't come home for Christmas after insulation mould took over - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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For more about the early history of solar power, Mouchot and Ericsson, check out this summary. It is fascinating to think about an alternative path of human advancement where coal and oil had not been so geologically accessible in the places where it was.
December 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
For more about the early history of solar power, Mouchot and Ericsson, check out this summary. It is fascinating to think about an alternative path of human advancement where coal and oil had not been so geologically accessible in the places where it was.
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“Climate action” is just another way to say “we want our beautiful complex planet to continue to be a good place to live, and to continue to be both beautiful and complex”. So much climate damage comes from assuming that Earth is simple, that it is easy to control and that it will bend to our will.
December 18, 2025 at 8:44 PM
“Climate action” is just another way to say “we want our beautiful complex planet to continue to be a good place to live, and to continue to be both beautiful and complex”. So much climate damage comes from assuming that Earth is simple, that it is easy to control and that it will bend to our will.
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Africa’s forests have joined the Brazilian Amazon and Australian forests in becoming carbon sources rather than sinks. Around 2010 the previous storage of our carbon emissions flipped, mainly through deforestation and degradation.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#climatechange #deforestation #Africa
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#climatechange #deforestation #Africa
Loss of tropical moist broadleaf forest has turned Africa’s forests from a carbon sink into a source - Scientific Reports
Africa’s forests and woody savannas have historically acted as a carbon sink, removing atmospheric carbon and storing it as biomass. However, our novel analysis reveals a critical transition from a ca...
www.nature.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Africa’s forests have joined the Brazilian Amazon and Australian forests in becoming carbon sources rather than sinks. Around 2010 the previous storage of our carbon emissions flipped, mainly through deforestation and degradation.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#climatechange #deforestation #Africa
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#climatechange #deforestation #Africa
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Thick as mince and thick as thieves. A column about the absolute idiots European legislators have made of themselves over the naming of food, at the behest of meat lobbyists.
You laugh and then you weep.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
You laugh and then you weep.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
When is a sausage not really a sausage? Ask the meat lobby | George Monbiot
European legislators may ban plant-based products from using the name to prevent ‘confusion’. Just don’t mention beef tomatoes or buffalo wings, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 20, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Thick as mince and thick as thieves. A column about the absolute idiots European legislators have made of themselves over the naming of food, at the behest of meat lobbyists.
You laugh and then you weep.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
You laugh and then you weep.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
December 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
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The EU recently announced new details on their approach to figuring out how to import US LNG that complies with their regulatory limits for methane emissions. Our team spent the week putting together this overview. We have little confidence the proposed solutions will deliver the promised results.
EU Methane Regulations: Trace and Claim - Oilfield Witness
The current negotiations around EU/US methane regulations are being sold to the public based on a major unproven assumption which is being repeated by many of the largest “green” NGOs in Europe and th...
oilfieldwitness.org
December 19, 2025 at 6:12 PM
The EU recently announced new details on their approach to figuring out how to import US LNG that complies with their regulatory limits for methane emissions. Our team spent the week putting together this overview. We have little confidence the proposed solutions will deliver the promised results.
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AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
December 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
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The human cost of Trump's gutting of USAID: By the time Tor Top’s mother was sick with cholera, the nearby clinic had been shuttered for weeks. He bundled her into a canoe & paddled toward the nearest hospital, 8 hours away. Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died.
New, @propublica.org
New, @propublica.org
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2025 at 10:37 AM
The human cost of Trump's gutting of USAID: By the time Tor Top’s mother was sick with cholera, the nearby clinic had been shuttered for weeks. He bundled her into a canoe & paddled toward the nearest hospital, 8 hours away. Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died.
New, @propublica.org
New, @propublica.org
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In DC, Trump officials celebrated the decimation of USAID with a sheet cake.
In South Sudan, USAID budget cuts closed a health clinic in the middle of a cholera outbreak.
Tor Top had to take his sick mother to the hospital, 8 hours away. She died on the way.
www.propublica.org/article/usai...
In South Sudan, USAID budget cuts closed a health clinic in the middle of a cholera outbreak.
Tor Top had to take his sick mother to the hospital, 8 hours away. She died on the way.
www.propublica.org/article/usai...
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
In DC, Trump officials celebrated the decimation of USAID with a sheet cake.
In South Sudan, USAID budget cuts closed a health clinic in the middle of a cholera outbreak.
Tor Top had to take his sick mother to the hospital, 8 hours away. She died on the way.
www.propublica.org/article/usai...
In South Sudan, USAID budget cuts closed a health clinic in the middle of a cholera outbreak.
Tor Top had to take his sick mother to the hospital, 8 hours away. She died on the way.
www.propublica.org/article/usai...
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NEW: Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food.
Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.
Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.
After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
www.propublica.org
December 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW: Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food.
Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.
Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.
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NEW: When the Trump administration took away her family’s food this summer, Rose Natabo had to choose which of her three sons to care for — who ate and who didn’t.
By Brett Murphy & @annamaria.bsky.social, photography by Brian Otieno
By Brett Murphy & @annamaria.bsky.social, photography by Brian Otieno
The Summer of Starvation: Amid Trump’s Foreign Aid Cuts, a Mother Struggles to Keep Her Sons Alive
After the Trump administration cut off food from the third-largest refugee camp in the world, thousands of families faced impossible choices as their children starved.
www.propublica.org
December 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
NEW: When the Trump administration took away her family’s food this summer, Rose Natabo had to choose which of her three sons to care for — who ate and who didn’t.
By Brett Murphy & @annamaria.bsky.social, photography by Brian Otieno
By Brett Murphy & @annamaria.bsky.social, photography by Brian Otieno
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NEW: Here's the searing tale of one woman's struggle to feed her family after the Trump Administration imposed a man-made food crisis.
Beautifully written by Brett Murphy & @annamaria.bsky.social
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Beautifully written by Brett Murphy & @annamaria.bsky.social
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
The Summer of Starvation: Amid Trump’s Foreign Aid Cuts, a Mother Struggles to Keep Her Sons Alive
After the Trump administration cut off food from the third-largest refugee camp in the world, thousands of families faced impossible choices as their children starved.
www.propublica.org
December 17, 2025 at 12:43 PM
NEW: Here's the searing tale of one woman's struggle to feed her family after the Trump Administration imposed a man-made food crisis.
Beautifully written by Brett Murphy & @annamaria.bsky.social
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Beautifully written by Brett Murphy & @annamaria.bsky.social
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
I am lost for words.
A story that should shock our collective conscience: After Trump Cuts to Kenya Food Aid, Children Died of Starvation
After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
www.propublica.org
December 18, 2025 at 11:55 PM
I am lost for words.
I am lost for words.
When the Trump administration took away her family’s food this summer, Rose Natabo had to choose which of her three sons to care for — who ate and who didn’t.
This is her story... and the story of too many others.
New, @propublica.org
This is her story... and the story of too many others.
New, @propublica.org
The Summer of Starvation: Amid Trump’s Foreign Aid Cuts, a Mother Struggles to Keep Her Sons Alive
After the Trump administration cut off food from the third-largest refugee camp in the world, thousands of families faced impossible choices as their children starved.
www.propublica.org
December 18, 2025 at 11:54 PM
I am lost for words.
I am lost for words.
After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“There was zero plan, except causing pain,” said one U.N. official. “And that is not forgivable.”
flip.it/TsJbgg
“There was zero plan, except causing pain,” said one U.N. official. “And that is not forgivable.”
flip.it/TsJbgg
After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
flip.it
December 18, 2025 at 11:45 PM
I am lost for words.
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Also, while we are on the topic of aviation did you know that half of all climate forcing from aviation could be eliminated by avoiding formation of persistent contrails?!
By @kencaldeira.com and colleagues:
By @kencaldeira.com and colleagues:
A Stylized Study of the Climate Response to Longwave and Shortwave Forcing at the Altitude of Aviation‐Induced Cirrus
For the same magnitude of LW and SW forcing at the altitude of aviation-induced cirrus, climate sensitivity is larger when the forcing is imposed at high latitudes For the same change in concentr...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Also, while we are on the topic of aviation did you know that half of all climate forcing from aviation could be eliminated by avoiding formation of persistent contrails?!
By @kencaldeira.com and colleagues:
By @kencaldeira.com and colleagues:
#Methane abatement remains the single fastest lever available to slow the rate of global warming in this decade; and the #EU Methane Regulation stands out as one of the most consequential #climate measures adopted anywhere in the world.
Reports suggesting pressure to weaken or delay the application of EU methane requirements are deeply concerning.
Read our chair Sir David King’s open letter to the EU commissioner here: www.ccag.earth/news/an-open...
Read our chair Sir David King’s open letter to the EU commissioner here: www.ccag.earth/news/an-open...
December 17, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Reports suggesting pressure to weaken or delay the application of EU methane requirements are deeply concerning.
Read our chair Sir David King’s open letter to the EU commissioner here: www.ccag.earth/news/an-open...
Read our chair Sir David King’s open letter to the EU commissioner here: www.ccag.earth/news/an-open...
December 17, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Reports suggesting pressure to weaken or delay the application of EU methane requirements are deeply concerning.
Read our chair Sir David King’s open letter to the EU commissioner here: www.ccag.earth/news/an-open...
Read our chair Sir David King’s open letter to the EU commissioner here: www.ccag.earth/news/an-open...