Louise Morton 🍃💚🍃
@lm-04.bsky.social
Yorkshire lass. Mother of daughters & dogs.
PhD Student - Sept 2023/26 Studying digital agricultural technology for healthy soil and carbon.
MSc ECMM 21/22.
BSc STEM OU 2017/21
PhD Student - Sept 2023/26 Studying digital agricultural technology for healthy soil and carbon.
MSc ECMM 21/22.
BSc STEM OU 2017/21
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BREAKING📢 Crack team of climate scientists show "it is no longer defensible for companies proposing new or extended fossil fuel projects to claim the climate harms will be negligible. Our research shows the harms are, in fact, tangible and quantifiable – and no project is too small to matter"
For the first time, we linked a new fossil fuel project to hundreds of deaths. Here’s the impact of Woodside’s Scarborough gas project
The results challenge claims that the climate risks posed by an individual fossil fuel project are negligible or cannot be quantified.
theconversation.com
October 13, 2025 at 11:19 AM
BREAKING📢 Crack team of climate scientists show "it is no longer defensible for companies proposing new or extended fossil fuel projects to claim the climate harms will be negligible. Our research shows the harms are, in fact, tangible and quantifiable – and no project is too small to matter"
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A little list ...
January 14, 2025 at 1:06 PM
A little list ...
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There is a lot of talk about ‘food security’…
So I wrote this (and it got a sexed up headline :-)
unherd.com/2024/12/a-fo...
So I wrote this (and it got a sexed up headline :-)
unherd.com/2024/12/a-fo...
A food apocalypse is coming
unherd.com
December 21, 2024 at 8:06 AM
There is a lot of talk about ‘food security’…
So I wrote this (and it got a sexed up headline :-)
unherd.com/2024/12/a-fo...
So I wrote this (and it got a sexed up headline :-)
unherd.com/2024/12/a-fo...
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What’s the word for when you’re conditioned to have such low expectations that your employer will do anything nice for you, that you’d be grateful for an unbroken chair to sit on? 🤨
Researchers found that to address the epidemic of mental ill health among HCPs, workers needed:
Targeted MH interventions
Hot food
Rest areas/lockers
Free parking
Essentially staff just need to be valued & treated like human beings.
Rocket science it is not.
evidence.nihr.ac.uk/alert/system...
Targeted MH interventions
Hot food
Rest areas/lockers
Free parking
Essentially staff just need to be valued & treated like human beings.
Rocket science it is not.
evidence.nihr.ac.uk/alert/system...
NHS staff psychological wellbeing: system-level changes needed
System-level changes such as improvements in working conditions are essential in order to improve the psychological wellbeing of NHS staff.
evidence.nihr.ac.uk
November 28, 2024 at 9:20 PM
What’s the word for when you’re conditioned to have such low expectations that your employer will do anything nice for you, that you’d be grateful for an unbroken chair to sit on? 🤨
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In this @theguardian.com column, @georgemonbiot.bsky.social perfectly summarises why carbon credits for soil are not a good idea.
Yes, we need to protect soil carbon, and we may increase it through good soil management, but promising golden mountains is flawed.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Yes, we need to protect soil carbon, and we may increase it through good soil management, but promising golden mountains is flawed.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 21, 2024 at 2:26 PM
In this @theguardian.com column, @georgemonbiot.bsky.social perfectly summarises why carbon credits for soil are not a good idea.
Yes, we need to protect soil carbon, and we may increase it through good soil management, but promising golden mountains is flawed.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Yes, we need to protect soil carbon, and we may increase it through good soil management, but promising golden mountains is flawed.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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This is not Valencia, this is the town Tenbury Wells UK. There are very real consequences for all of us of ignoring 40 years of warnings from NASA & the world’s leading scientists. Reminder: as the planet heats, the atmosphere holds more moisture meaning rainfall intensity increases. #climatechange
November 24, 2024 at 4:54 PM
This is not Valencia, this is the town Tenbury Wells UK. There are very real consequences for all of us of ignoring 40 years of warnings from NASA & the world’s leading scientists. Reminder: as the planet heats, the atmosphere holds more moisture meaning rainfall intensity increases. #climatechange
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Left: Extreme flooding across the UK this week
Right: Risks from the UK climate change risk assessment in 2012 and 2021 - notice how there are many more 'high', and 'very high' (>£1 billion per year in damage) risks. We have been taken off guard in just how fast & hard climate can hit the UK!
Right: Risks from the UK climate change risk assessment in 2012 and 2021 - notice how there are many more 'high', and 'very high' (>£1 billion per year in damage) risks. We have been taken off guard in just how fast & hard climate can hit the UK!
November 25, 2024 at 1:38 PM
Left: Extreme flooding across the UK this week
Right: Risks from the UK climate change risk assessment in 2012 and 2021 - notice how there are many more 'high', and 'very high' (>£1 billion per year in damage) risks. We have been taken off guard in just how fast & hard climate can hit the UK!
Right: Risks from the UK climate change risk assessment in 2012 and 2021 - notice how there are many more 'high', and 'very high' (>£1 billion per year in damage) risks. We have been taken off guard in just how fast & hard climate can hit the UK!
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UK agriculture is grappling with land pressure, policy shifts, rising costs, and balancing food production with environmental sustainability | Richard Jones
A reflection on UK farming
UK agriculture is grappling with land pressure, policy shifts, rising costs, and balancing food production with environmental sustainability
westenglandbylines.co.uk
November 25, 2024 at 8:40 AM
UK agriculture is grappling with land pressure, policy shifts, rising costs, and balancing food production with environmental sustainability | Richard Jones
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The @uniofexeter.bsky.social convened a panel to advise the university on how to use carbon offsets in its ambitious net zero target. Our conclusion is that all offsets should be ditched. We very much hope other universities will do likewise.
theconversation.com/we-have-offi...
theconversation.com/we-have-offi...
We have officially advised our university to ditch carbon offsets – and focus on cutting emissions
Your organisation should probably ditch offsets too.
theconversation.com
November 22, 2024 at 11:45 AM
The @uniofexeter.bsky.social convened a panel to advise the university on how to use carbon offsets in its ambitious net zero target. Our conclusion is that all offsets should be ditched. We very much hope other universities will do likewise.
theconversation.com/we-have-offi...
theconversation.com/we-have-offi...
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Your 'moment of doom' for Nov. 20, 2024 ~ Category 11?
"Hurricanes over the last five years were, on average, one extra Saffir-Simpson category more intense than they would have been in a world without ocean warming caused by climate change."
www.climatecentral.org/report/2024-...
"Hurricanes over the last five years were, on average, one extra Saffir-Simpson category more intense than they would have been in a world without ocean warming caused by climate change."
www.climatecentral.org/report/2024-...
Climate change increased wind speeds for every 2024 Atlantic hurricane: Analysis | Climate Central
Climate change increased maximum wind speeds for every Atlantic hurricane in 2024, according to a Climate Central analysis based on new, peer-reviewed research.
www.climatecentral.org
November 20, 2024 at 1:10 PM
Your 'moment of doom' for Nov. 20, 2024 ~ Category 11?
"Hurricanes over the last five years were, on average, one extra Saffir-Simpson category more intense than they would have been in a world without ocean warming caused by climate change."
www.climatecentral.org/report/2024-...
"Hurricanes over the last five years were, on average, one extra Saffir-Simpson category more intense than they would have been in a world without ocean warming caused by climate change."
www.climatecentral.org/report/2024-...
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Not only are women more likely to engage on the climate, but they're disporportionately affected by the Climate Emergency
According to UN Environment, 80% of people displaced by the Climate Crisis are women/girls
Women are also more affected by climate-related poverty & violence & sexual assault
According to UN Environment, 80% of people displaced by the Climate Crisis are women/girls
Women are also more affected by climate-related poverty & violence & sexual assault
November 19, 2024 at 10:32 PM
Not only are women more likely to engage on the climate, but they're disporportionately affected by the Climate Emergency
According to UN Environment, 80% of people displaced by the Climate Crisis are women/girls
Women are also more affected by climate-related poverty & violence & sexual assault
According to UN Environment, 80% of people displaced by the Climate Crisis are women/girls
Women are also more affected by climate-related poverty & violence & sexual assault