Dave in Essex 🇺🇦 🇨🇦
@hennystdave.bsky.social
Organic gardener, bird watcher including surveying for BTO, butterfly surveying for Butterfly Conservation. Professionally in resilience where I still sit on British and International committees (Organisational, Energy and Infrastructure Resilience)
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'The Pool of London during Dockland Air Raids, 1940' by Charles Pears
(Guildhall Art Gallery)
(Guildhall Art Gallery)
November 13, 2025 at 8:27 PM
'The Pool of London during Dockland Air Raids, 1940' by Charles Pears
(Guildhall Art Gallery)
(Guildhall Art Gallery)
And good riddance!
Yes!
Police and Crime Commissioners are to be abolished at the end of their current term in 2028.
Some regional mayors already have taken on these powers and more will now take on these roles. If an area doesn't have a mayor yet, the local councils will take on the role.
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Police and Crime Commissioners are to be abolished at the end of their current term in 2028.
Some regional mayors already have taken on these powers and more will now take on these roles. If an area doesn't have a mayor yet, the local councils will take on the role.
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November 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
And good riddance!
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Meanwhile
‼️EXTRAORDINARY DAY: 30 DEGREES IN FRANCE
One of the most insane events Europe has ever lived
29.8 Trois Villes HOTTEST NOVEMBER DAY IN FRENCH HISTORY
29.3 Oloron
29.2 Lanne en Baretous
20 stations >27C !
SPAIN 29.4 Granada
Next days
THOUSANDS OF RECORDS allover Europe except Central Mediterranean
One of the most insane events Europe has ever lived
29.8 Trois Villes HOTTEST NOVEMBER DAY IN FRENCH HISTORY
29.3 Oloron
29.2 Lanne en Baretous
20 stations >27C !
SPAIN 29.4 Granada
Next days
THOUSANDS OF RECORDS allover Europe except Central Mediterranean
November 13, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Meanwhile
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Truly remarkable: Poland used to be a climate laggard.
Today, wind and solar are increasingly replacing coal in the Polish electricity mix with almost 30% of all electricity generated to date this year from wind and solar.
In 2000 coal provided 95% of Polish electricity.
Today it is at 51%.
Today, wind and solar are increasingly replacing coal in the Polish electricity mix with almost 30% of all electricity generated to date this year from wind and solar.
In 2000 coal provided 95% of Polish electricity.
Today it is at 51%.
November 13, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Truly remarkable: Poland used to be a climate laggard.
Today, wind and solar are increasingly replacing coal in the Polish electricity mix with almost 30% of all electricity generated to date this year from wind and solar.
In 2000 coal provided 95% of Polish electricity.
Today it is at 51%.
Today, wind and solar are increasingly replacing coal in the Polish electricity mix with almost 30% of all electricity generated to date this year from wind and solar.
In 2000 coal provided 95% of Polish electricity.
Today it is at 51%.
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Lovely write up of our @badvertising.bsky.social station takeover campaign in Creative Review
Satirical ‘Fossil Ads’ take over London Tube station
Badvertising’s Station Domination campaign brings urgent attention to adverts promoting fossil fuels across the city’s transport network
www.creativereview.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Lovely write up of our @badvertising.bsky.social station takeover campaign in Creative Review
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Gall of the week is the nail gall of the mite Eriophyes tiliae on lime trees Tilia spp.
Photo by Mike Poulton.
Photo by Mike Poulton.
November 13, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Gall of the week is the nail gall of the mite Eriophyes tiliae on lime trees Tilia spp.
Photo by Mike Poulton.
Photo by Mike Poulton.
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'Self-portrait as an Auxiliary Fireman' (c.1941) by Frank Potter
(Private collection)
(Private collection)
November 13, 2025 at 11:09 AM
'Self-portrait as an Auxiliary Fireman' (c.1941) by Frank Potter
(Private collection)
(Private collection)
Nice 🚲 around countryside. Large mixed flock of Greenfinches, Chaffinches & Linnets alongside many Redwings & a few Fieldfares near Horne’s Green. Rooks very noisy and active everywhere. #essexbirding
November 13, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Nice 🚲 around countryside. Large mixed flock of Greenfinches, Chaffinches & Linnets alongside many Redwings & a few Fieldfares near Horne’s Green. Rooks very noisy and active everywhere. #essexbirding
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The Talatan Solar Park in China is absurdly huge — stretching across 600 km² of the Tibetan Plateau (about 7× Manhattan’s size) and generating around 17 GW of power.
It’s so big you can see it from space — a shimmering sea of panels.
It’s so big you can see it from space — a shimmering sea of panels.
November 12, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The Talatan Solar Park in China is absurdly huge — stretching across 600 km² of the Tibetan Plateau (about 7× Manhattan’s size) and generating around 17 GW of power.
It’s so big you can see it from space — a shimmering sea of panels.
It’s so big you can see it from space — a shimmering sea of panels.
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'A Sleeping Family in a London Underground Station' by Rachel Reckitt
(Royal Air Force Museum)
(Royal Air Force Museum)
November 12, 2025 at 1:25 PM
'A Sleeping Family in a London Underground Station' by Rachel Reckitt
(Royal Air Force Museum)
(Royal Air Force Museum)
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'Familiar Silhouettes', Piccadilly Circus Underground Station (1942) by Henry Marvell Carr
(Imperial War Museums)
(Imperial War Museums)
November 12, 2025 at 4:38 PM
'Familiar Silhouettes', Piccadilly Circus Underground Station (1942) by Henry Marvell Carr
(Imperial War Museums)
(Imperial War Museums)
A little trip to Abberton today. Lovely weather was a surprise, female Goosanders have arrived, a Marsh Harrier disturbed a large flock of Lapwing with accompanying Dunlin plus 3/4 Little Stint too (FFY). Lots of ducks, Great & L Egrets, Cormorants, Grebes. #essexbirding
November 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
A little trip to Abberton today. Lovely weather was a surprise, female Goosanders have arrived, a Marsh Harrier disturbed a large flock of Lapwing with accompanying Dunlin plus 3/4 Little Stint too (FFY). Lots of ducks, Great & L Egrets, Cormorants, Grebes. #essexbirding
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Yes, unemployment was 4.2% & is now 5%. But that is not the full picture.
The data before Labour came to power had employment at 74.6% & it's now at 75%.
In terms of people it was 33.489m. It's now 34.192m.
That is 703k more people in work.
How can that be? Because there is a 3rd group.
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The data before Labour came to power had employment at 74.6% & it's now at 75%.
In terms of people it was 33.489m. It's now 34.192m.
That is 703k more people in work.
How can that be? Because there is a 3rd group.
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November 12, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Yes, unemployment was 4.2% & is now 5%. But that is not the full picture.
The data before Labour came to power had employment at 74.6% & it's now at 75%.
In terms of people it was 33.489m. It's now 34.192m.
That is 703k more people in work.
How can that be? Because there is a 3rd group.
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The data before Labour came to power had employment at 74.6% & it's now at 75%.
In terms of people it was 33.489m. It's now 34.192m.
That is 703k more people in work.
How can that be? Because there is a 3rd group.
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Ahead of the Budget there is quite a bit of misinformation
So - as a primer - here is the truth about the UK economy in 2025 www.ft.com/content/99d2...
So - as a primer - here is the truth about the UK economy in 2025 www.ft.com/content/99d2...
November 12, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Ahead of the Budget there is quite a bit of misinformation
So - as a primer - here is the truth about the UK economy in 2025 www.ft.com/content/99d2...
So - as a primer - here is the truth about the UK economy in 2025 www.ft.com/content/99d2...
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NEW: Global fossil fuel use will peak before 2030 – unless 'stated policies' are abandoned
Contra some terrible news coverage, IEA World Energy Outlook shows coal near peak, oil peaking by 2030 & gas by 2035 (see chart)
What's going on? 🧵 + cool charts
www.carbonbrief.org/iea-fossil-f...
Contra some terrible news coverage, IEA World Energy Outlook shows coal near peak, oil peaking by 2030 & gas by 2035 (see chart)
What's going on? 🧵 + cool charts
www.carbonbrief.org/iea-fossil-f...
November 12, 2025 at 9:02 AM
NEW: Global fossil fuel use will peak before 2030 – unless 'stated policies' are abandoned
Contra some terrible news coverage, IEA World Energy Outlook shows coal near peak, oil peaking by 2030 & gas by 2035 (see chart)
What's going on? 🧵 + cool charts
www.carbonbrief.org/iea-fossil-f...
Contra some terrible news coverage, IEA World Energy Outlook shows coal near peak, oil peaking by 2030 & gas by 2035 (see chart)
What's going on? 🧵 + cool charts
www.carbonbrief.org/iea-fossil-f...
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Contrary to some media reports, heat pumps aren’t new tech — they’ve been around for 100+ years!
✅ First built in 1856 by Peter von Rittinger
✅ Zurich City Hall used one from 1938–2001
✅ UK’s first in 1945 (Norwich)
✅ ~200 million in use worldwide today
✅ First built in 1856 by Peter von Rittinger
✅ Zurich City Hall used one from 1938–2001
✅ UK’s first in 1945 (Norwich)
✅ ~200 million in use worldwide today
November 12, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Contrary to some media reports, heat pumps aren’t new tech — they’ve been around for 100+ years!
✅ First built in 1856 by Peter von Rittinger
✅ Zurich City Hall used one from 1938–2001
✅ UK’s first in 1945 (Norwich)
✅ ~200 million in use worldwide today
✅ First built in 1856 by Peter von Rittinger
✅ Zurich City Hall used one from 1938–2001
✅ UK’s first in 1945 (Norwich)
✅ ~200 million in use worldwide today
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We're ALSO in the Age of Renewables:
ALL electricity demand growth to 2035 - all the AI, air conditioning, manufacturing, everything - is meet with rising renewables generation in aggregate.
Therefore, fossil electricity generation is lower in 2035 than today.
ALL electricity demand growth to 2035 - all the AI, air conditioning, manufacturing, everything - is meet with rising renewables generation in aggregate.
Therefore, fossil electricity generation is lower in 2035 than today.
November 12, 2025 at 7:59 AM
We're ALSO in the Age of Renewables:
ALL electricity demand growth to 2035 - all the AI, air conditioning, manufacturing, everything - is meet with rising renewables generation in aggregate.
Therefore, fossil electricity generation is lower in 2035 than today.
ALL electricity demand growth to 2035 - all the AI, air conditioning, manufacturing, everything - is meet with rising renewables generation in aggregate.
Therefore, fossil electricity generation is lower in 2035 than today.
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We're in the Age of Electricity:
Electricity demand grows SEVEN times as fast as the rest of final energy demand: +2.9%/year compared to 0.4%/year to 2035 in STEPS.
Electricity demand grows SEVEN times as fast as the rest of final energy demand: +2.9%/year compared to 0.4%/year to 2035 in STEPS.
November 12, 2025 at 7:59 AM
We're in the Age of Electricity:
Electricity demand grows SEVEN times as fast as the rest of final energy demand: +2.9%/year compared to 0.4%/year to 2035 in STEPS.
Electricity demand grows SEVEN times as fast as the rest of final energy demand: +2.9%/year compared to 0.4%/year to 2035 in STEPS.
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The real news is the Renewables Revolution.
All scenarios - even the CPS - show the global electricity grid will double in the next 10 years🤯
All scenarios - even the CPS - show the global electricity grid will double in the next 10 years🤯
November 12, 2025 at 7:59 AM
The real news is the Renewables Revolution.
All scenarios - even the CPS - show the global electricity grid will double in the next 10 years🤯
All scenarios - even the CPS - show the global electricity grid will double in the next 10 years🤯
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World Energy Outlook 2025 is out now! 🚨
It shows that as risks multiply in a world thirsty for energy, diversification & cooperation are more urgent than ever.
#WEO25 identifies key choices, opportunities & trade-offs for governments ahead.
Read more 👉 iea.li/3JrSvlq
It shows that as risks multiply in a world thirsty for energy, diversification & cooperation are more urgent than ever.
#WEO25 identifies key choices, opportunities & trade-offs for governments ahead.
Read more 👉 iea.li/3JrSvlq
November 12, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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The big story is NOT whether coal, oil or gas fall or rise by 0.XX% per year. It's solar and wind:
Annual growth 2024 to 2035 (STEPS):
- Solar +14% 🤯
- Wind +10% 🤯
- Oil -0.1% (total energy, not just elec)
- Gas +1.0%
- Coal -2.0%
Annual growth 2024 to 2035 (STEPS):
- Solar +14% 🤯
- Wind +10% 🤯
- Oil -0.1% (total energy, not just elec)
- Gas +1.0%
- Coal -2.0%
November 12, 2025 at 7:59 AM
The big story is NOT whether coal, oil or gas fall or rise by 0.XX% per year. It's solar and wind:
Annual growth 2024 to 2035 (STEPS):
- Solar +14% 🤯
- Wind +10% 🤯
- Oil -0.1% (total energy, not just elec)
- Gas +1.0%
- Coal -2.0%
Annual growth 2024 to 2035 (STEPS):
- Solar +14% 🤯
- Wind +10% 🤯
- Oil -0.1% (total energy, not just elec)
- Gas +1.0%
- Coal -2.0%
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But really the story is renewables and electrification.
We are doing all the right things today already.
Progress is faster than the IEA shows.
Let's not get distracted.
We are doing all the right things today already.
Progress is faster than the IEA shows.
Let's not get distracted.
November 12, 2025 at 7:59 AM
But really the story is renewables and electrification.
We are doing all the right things today already.
Progress is faster than the IEA shows.
Let's not get distracted.
We are doing all the right things today already.
Progress is faster than the IEA shows.
Let's not get distracted.
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5/ Ukrainian forces recently advanced near Siversk. Russian forces recently advanced near Pokrovsk and Hulyaipole.
November 12, 2025 at 5:16 AM
5/ Ukrainian forces recently advanced near Siversk. Russian forces recently advanced near Pokrovsk and Hulyaipole.
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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BREAKING: European Sleeper will start a Paris-Berlin sleeper train from 26 March 2026, after Nightjet pulls out in December.
It'll run via Brussels (with Eurostar connection from London) 3 times a week. This + existing train = Brussels-Berlin 6 times a week. www.europeansleeper.eu/paris
It'll run via Brussels (with Eurostar connection from London) 3 times a week. This + existing train = Brussels-Berlin 6 times a week. www.europeansleeper.eu/paris
November 12, 2025 at 7:16 AM
BREAKING: European Sleeper will start a Paris-Berlin sleeper train from 26 March 2026, after Nightjet pulls out in December.
It'll run via Brussels (with Eurostar connection from London) 3 times a week. This + existing train = Brussels-Berlin 6 times a week. www.europeansleeper.eu/paris
It'll run via Brussels (with Eurostar connection from London) 3 times a week. This + existing train = Brussels-Berlin 6 times a week. www.europeansleeper.eu/paris