W Griffith
@supersequin.bsky.social
Nature. Climate. Surfing. Harp. Adventure. Stones. Cycling. Hugs. Clouds. Sequins. Astronomy. Art. Engineering. Photography. Dancing. Aerospace. Sustainability. Wellbeing. Sailing. Daydreaming.
"The accelerating climate crisis presents a range of deeply interconnected risks that threaten to destabilize the Earth system and society." This is what happens when you 'cut the green crap'... #climatechange #climatecrisis
"The future is still being written. Through choices in policy, investment, education, and care for one another and the Earth, we can still create a turning point. It begins by embracing our shared humanity and recognizing the profound interconnectedness of all life on the planet"
The 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink
We are hurtling toward climate chaos. The planet's vital signs are flashing red. The consequences of human-driven alterations of the climate are no longer
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November 3, 2025 at 7:38 AM
"The accelerating climate crisis presents a range of deeply interconnected risks that threaten to destabilize the Earth system and society." This is what happens when you 'cut the green crap'... #climatechange #climatecrisis
Red throated diver still off Cardiff Bay barrage #birdingwales
November 1, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Red throated diver still off Cardiff Bay barrage #birdingwales
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Europe's Insect-Eating Birds Reveal a Hidden Crisis in the Food Chain www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/E...
Europe's Insect-Eating Birds Reveal a Hidden Crisis in the Food Chain
New research shows that beetles and grasshoppers underpin bird diets – and their decline could spell disaster for species already in trouble
www.rarebirdalert.co.uk
October 31, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Europe's Insect-Eating Birds Reveal a Hidden Crisis in the Food Chain www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/E...
Exciting wildlife encounter at #WALBEL with the appearance of a "large mouse" on the pitch! #JoeRodent showed excellent footwork to outsmart the Belgian keeper. #WALvBEL #JoeRodon #CroesoyGymru #Rat #Largemouse #FAWales
October 13, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Exciting wildlife encounter at #WALBEL with the appearance of a "large mouse" on the pitch! #JoeRodent showed excellent footwork to outsmart the Belgian keeper. #WALvBEL #JoeRodon #CroesoyGymru #Rat #Largemouse #FAWales
Fascinating walk along Penarth seashore on the lowest tide of the year. Amongst the usual beadlet anemones I found an unusual #seaanemone and would appreciate help with #identification. Could this be a red speckled anemone? @sewbrec.org.uk @thembauk.bsky.social #rockpooling #sealife
October 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Fascinating walk along Penarth seashore on the lowest tide of the year. Amongst the usual beadlet anemones I found an unusual #seaanemone and would appreciate help with #identification. Could this be a red speckled anemone? @sewbrec.org.uk @thembauk.bsky.social #rockpooling #sealife
I finally paid the extra charge to visit the castle at #StMichaelsMount and I'm very glad that I did! Not only does the Chevy Chase dining hall have a fantastic frieze, but the windows are full of #stainedglass. @nationaltrust.org.uk #glitchart #digitalart #reimagined #glitchlab #glitch
September 25, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I finally paid the extra charge to visit the castle at #StMichaelsMount and I'm very glad that I did! Not only does the Chevy Chase dining hall have a fantastic frieze, but the windows are full of #stainedglass. @nationaltrust.org.uk #glitchart #digitalart #reimagined #glitchlab #glitch
Visited the @tatestives.bsky.social and was so inspired by the works of Liliane Lijn, Barbara Hepworth and John Wells that I created this digital re-imagining of #StNicholasChapel.
#StIves #art #digitalart #otherworlds #landscape #photography #scifiart #landscapephotography #glitchlab #snapseed
#StIves #art #digitalart #otherworlds #landscape #photography #scifiart #landscapephotography #glitchlab #snapseed
September 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Visited the @tatestives.bsky.social and was so inspired by the works of Liliane Lijn, Barbara Hepworth and John Wells that I created this digital re-imagining of #StNicholasChapel.
#StIves #art #digitalart #otherworlds #landscape #photography #scifiart #landscapephotography #glitchlab #snapseed
#StIves #art #digitalart #otherworlds #landscape #photography #scifiart #landscapephotography #glitchlab #snapseed
Fantastic views of the rather charming phalaropes at Lisvane reservoir. Both grey and the single red-necked phal were very happy to feed close in. #birdingwales
September 17, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Fantastic views of the rather charming phalaropes at Lisvane reservoir. Both grey and the single red-necked phal were very happy to feed close in. #birdingwales
A beautiful northern wheatear was the highlight of a pre-rain walk to Lavernock Point. Significantly fewer hirudines than yesterday. Also of note: skylarks over and a few chiffchaff in the hedges. #birdingwales
September 14, 2025 at 11:50 AM
A beautiful northern wheatear was the highlight of a pre-rain walk to Lavernock Point. Significantly fewer hirudines than yesterday. Also of note: skylarks over and a few chiffchaff in the hedges. #birdingwales
I often think about this study that shows ducklings swimming in a single-file formation behind their parent conserve energy through wave-riding, where trailing ducklings gain forward push, and wave-passing, where energy transfers efficiently along the line. Get your ducks in a row.
Wave-riding and wave-passing by ducklings in formation swimming | Journal of Fluid Mechanics | Cambridge Core
Wave-riding and wave-passing by ducklings in formation swimming - Volume 928
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September 13, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Professional #cycling has got a huge #sportswashing problem. Petrochemical companies, car makers, airlines and pariah states are all using cycling to create positive associations with their brands. Governing bodies need a credible plan for an ethical funding solution. www.reuters.com/sports/rider...
Riders threaten to quit Vuelta if more protests disrupt race
Vuelta a Espana riders voted to neutralise Wednesday's stage 17 if pro-Palestine protests disrupt the stage rather than race to an "undefined finish line" as Spanish authorities announced "extraordinary" security measures for the final two stages.
www.reuters.com
September 11, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Professional #cycling has got a huge #sportswashing problem. Petrochemical companies, car makers, airlines and pariah states are all using cycling to create positive associations with their brands. Governing bodies need a credible plan for an ethical funding solution. www.reuters.com/sports/rider...
Full #TdF vibes on Caerphilly Mountain during the #TourofBritain earlier. Scary lack of coordination of road closures afterwards though - at least one RTA seen on a supposedly sterile course! #Safetyfirst
September 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Full #TdF vibes on Caerphilly Mountain during the #TourofBritain earlier. Scary lack of coordination of road closures afterwards though - at least one RTA seen on a supposedly sterile course! #Safetyfirst
Enjoyed a great day with hundreds of fellow #cycling fans watching the #TourofBritain. Noa Isidore led the pack up The Tumble at a mind-boggling pace.
September 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Enjoyed a great day with hundreds of fellow #cycling fans watching the #TourofBritain. Noa Isidore led the pack up The Tumble at a mind-boggling pace.
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“Sustainable” aviation fuels are often promoted as the answer to aviation’s decarbonisation problem, but they are not a magic bullet. Here we summarise 6 reasons why SAF won’t be sufficient to mitigate increased emissions from airport expansion. 1/8
www.aef.org.uk/2025/09/04/h...
www.aef.org.uk/2025/09/04/h...
Hope or hype: Can SAF really justify airport expansion? - Aviation Environment Federation
“Sustainable” aviation fuels are often promoted as the answer to aviation’s decarbonisation problem, but they are not a magic bullet. Here we summarise 6 reasons why SAF won’t be sufficient …
www.aef.org.uk
September 5, 2025 at 11:36 AM
“Sustainable” aviation fuels are often promoted as the answer to aviation’s decarbonisation problem, but they are not a magic bullet. Here we summarise 6 reasons why SAF won’t be sufficient to mitigate increased emissions from airport expansion. 1/8
www.aef.org.uk/2025/09/04/h...
www.aef.org.uk/2025/09/04/h...
New studies suggest a 70% chance of #AMOC collapse by 2100 at current #GHG emission levels. This could cause severe impacts to food production and widespread coastal flooding in the UK within the lifetimes of our children. Urgent action is needed!
I was shocked when I first saw these results from standard climate models used in IPCC reports: for high emissions, the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC shuts down in all 9 models that ran past 2100, and is well on the way to shutdown by 2100.
Our paper on that is out today.🧵
Our paper on that is out today.🧵
August 29, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Wisps of gossamer cloud signal the last day of summer. 🌤 #timelapse #cirrus #clouds #cloudlovers #cloudporn #scape #skyphotography #HurricaneErin #Erin
August 25, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Wisps of gossamer cloud signal the last day of summer. 🌤 #timelapse #cirrus #clouds #cloudlovers #cloudporn #scape #skyphotography #HurricaneErin #Erin
Looking like the product of a child's imagination, this fantastically terrifying wasp spider was lurking with intent at #Cosmeston in #Penarth. #spider #waspspider #ukwildlife #nature
August 23, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Looking like the product of a child's imagination, this fantastically terrifying wasp spider was lurking with intent at #Cosmeston in #Penarth. #spider #waspspider #ukwildlife #nature
Wonderfully moody skies at Rhos Point this morning. Bonxie offshore harrying Sandwich Terns, with a GBB Gull keeping a close watch. Pairs of Common Gulls and Oystercatchers on shore, with small groups of Cormorants streaming by, and 20 or so Herring Gulls bobbing around. #birdingwales
August 7, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Wonderfully moody skies at Rhos Point this morning. Bonxie offshore harrying Sandwich Terns, with a GBB Gull keeping a close watch. Pairs of Common Gulls and Oystercatchers on shore, with small groups of Cormorants streaming by, and 20 or so Herring Gulls bobbing around. #birdingwales
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It cannot be denied: this is a deliberate and coldly-calculated famine, engineered by a technologically-advanced state which knows exactly what it is doing.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza
Israel controls the flow of food into Gaza. It has calculated how many calories Palestinians need to stay alive. Its data shows only a fraction has been allowed in
www.theguardian.com
July 31, 2025 at 3:38 PM
It cannot be denied: this is a deliberate and coldly-calculated famine, engineered by a technologically-advanced state which knows exactly what it is doing.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Inspired by Channel 4 coverage of the Tour, each evening I would turn off the TV, put on my lime green Superconfex jersey and ride my 6 speed Dawes racer at furious pace in a two person breakaway with my brother the end of the prom and back... 🧵
July 28, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Inspired by Channel 4 coverage of the Tour, each evening I would turn off the TV, put on my lime green Superconfex jersey and ride my 6 speed Dawes racer at furious pace in a two person breakaway with my brother the end of the prom and back... 🧵
Great trip to the #JMWTurner exhibition @holburnemuseumbath.bsky.social Whilst there, I noticed that this #watercolour of a 'Rainbow over a Swiss Lake' is unmistakably a #Fogbow, rather than a rainbow. Fogbows form as colourless arcs in mist and fog, often over or near lakes. #atmosphericoptics #art
July 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Great trip to the #JMWTurner exhibition @holburnemuseumbath.bsky.social Whilst there, I noticed that this #watercolour of a 'Rainbow over a Swiss Lake' is unmistakably a #Fogbow, rather than a rainbow. Fogbows form as colourless arcs in mist and fog, often over or near lakes. #atmosphericoptics #art
From the burning sky,
Ladybirds rain like embers.
Our house is on fire.
#haiku #poetry #ladybird #heatwave #climatechange
Ladybirds rain like embers.
Our house is on fire.
#haiku #poetry #ladybird #heatwave #climatechange
July 12, 2025 at 5:34 PM
From the burning sky,
Ladybirds rain like embers.
Our house is on fire.
#haiku #poetry #ladybird #heatwave #climatechange
Ladybirds rain like embers.
Our house is on fire.
#haiku #poetry #ladybird #heatwave #climatechange
After only 4 years searching, I finally found my first Purple Hairstreak...only for it to be snatched by a blue tit! 😱 Thankfully, there were more, and I got to enjoy some prolonged views (and take some award-winning photos) of this elusive #butterfly. #ukwildlife @savebutterflies.bsky.social
July 2, 2025 at 12:33 PM
After only 4 years searching, I finally found my first Purple Hairstreak...only for it to be snatched by a blue tit! 😱 Thankfully, there were more, and I got to enjoy some prolonged views (and take some award-winning photos) of this elusive #butterfly. #ukwildlife @savebutterflies.bsky.social
Good news as scientists are starting to unpick the causal factors and mechanisms behind recent 'heat dome' events in Europe and the US. Research suggests that they are linked to atmospheric resonances. And the bad news...
#heatwave #climatechange #heatdome
#heatwave #climatechange #heatdome
Nonetheless, that means that current model-based assessments of historical changes and projections of the future likely underestimate the potential for increases in the sorts of very damaging and dangerous persistent summer weather extremes we've seen in recent years.
July 2, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Good news as scientists are starting to unpick the causal factors and mechanisms behind recent 'heat dome' events in Europe and the US. Research suggests that they are linked to atmospheric resonances. And the bad news...
#heatwave #climatechange #heatdome
#heatwave #climatechange #heatdome