Jacob Aron
@jjaron.bsky.social
News editor at New Scientist. I read a lot of books, and recommend the best ones to you
Not least because there's a big Spiders Georg effect here. You're telling me an information-dense page like the COP websites contains more information than the average website? I'm shocked, shocked I say! At least compare with the median. Not a remotely serious piece of work
November 11, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Not least because there's a big Spiders Georg effect here. You're telling me an information-dense page like the COP websites contains more information than the average website? I'm shocked, shocked I say! At least compare with the median. Not a remotely serious piece of work
Here we go. Just an entirely pointless thing to investigate, literally meaningless, and will only be used by bad-faith actors to attack the COP process and climate action in general www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
COP webpages emit seven times more carbon than average sites
Websites produced for COP conferences emit up to 10 times more carbon than average internet pages, new research suggests.
www.eurekalert.org
November 11, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Here we go. Just an entirely pointless thing to investigate, literally meaningless, and will only be used by bad-faith actors to attack the COP process and climate action in general www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
I think the slime is a metaphor for HMRC here but I haven't had my coffee yet this morning
November 11, 2025 at 7:50 AM
I think the slime is a metaphor for HMRC here but I haven't had my coffee yet this morning
Turning a bunch of little dials that say things like "salary sacrifice" and "cycle to work" and looking at Nigel Farage for approval like a contestant on The Price Is Right, vs pulling the great big lever marked "income tax" and releasing a slime dunk like Get Your Own Back
November 11, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Turning a bunch of little dials that say things like "salary sacrifice" and "cycle to work" and looking at Nigel Farage for approval like a contestant on The Price Is Right, vs pulling the great big lever marked "income tax" and releasing a slime dunk like Get Your Own Back
Was thinking recently about this piece we ran in 2019, when I'd never heard of BYD, and now I see them everywhere www.newscientist.com/article/mg24...
Forget Tesla - China’s BYD is driving the electric car revolution
Shifting to electric vehicles is an essential part of tackling climate change and China is doing far better than the West
www.newscientist.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Was thinking recently about this piece we ran in 2019, when I'd never heard of BYD, and now I see them everywhere www.newscientist.com/article/mg24...