The Pragmatic Environmentalist
@pragmaticenv.bsky.social
Mike Crouch. MSc by Research in Biogeochemistry. BSc (Hons) in Env Sciences. Pragmatically posting about the climate & biodiversity emergencies.
You learn something every day. Today in an audio book the word 'Delphic', meaning 'Relating to the ancient Greek oracle at Delphi. Deliberately obscure or ambiguous'; which I misheard as 'Benthic', meaning 'anything related to the bottom of a body of water, or the organisms that live there'!
August 1, 2025 at 12:49 PM
You learn something every day. Today in an audio book the word 'Delphic', meaning 'Relating to the ancient Greek oracle at Delphi. Deliberately obscure or ambiguous'; which I misheard as 'Benthic', meaning 'anything related to the bottom of a body of water, or the organisms that live there'!
If #KatyPerry planted an absolute buggerload of them, it would increase the albedo (reflectivity) of the land surface, decrease radiative forcing & thus exert a cooling effect.
Send her a copy of 'Ages of #Gaia'. It would re-frame her oft-referenced God, herself, & the 'Overview Effect' completely!
Send her a copy of 'Ages of #Gaia'. It would re-frame her oft-referenced God, herself, & the 'Overview Effect' completely!
April 16, 2025 at 9:51 PM
If #KatyPerry planted an absolute buggerload of them, it would increase the albedo (reflectivity) of the land surface, decrease radiative forcing & thus exert a cooling effect.
Send her a copy of 'Ages of #Gaia'. It would re-frame her oft-referenced God, herself, & the 'Overview Effect' completely!
Send her a copy of 'Ages of #Gaia'. It would re-frame her oft-referenced God, herself, & the 'Overview Effect' completely!
1666 would be about the time Britain began to make the shift from wood to coal, as coal is a cleaner, more energy dense substance than wood. Energy transitions are nothing new!
Source - Simon Shows You Maps on FB
Source - Simon Shows You Maps on FB
March 19, 2025 at 3:54 PM
1666 would be about the time Britain began to make the shift from wood to coal, as coal is a cleaner, more energy dense substance than wood. Energy transitions are nothing new!
Source - Simon Shows You Maps on FB
Source - Simon Shows You Maps on FB
2/2 Unsurprisingly, US DoE found that putting salt & metal together leads to accelerated corrosion rates over the conventional nuclear fuel in a zirconium assembly with water or gas as the coolant.
January 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
2/2 Unsurprisingly, US DoE found that putting salt & metal together leads to accelerated corrosion rates over the conventional nuclear fuel in a zirconium assembly with water or gas as the coolant.
Iron fertilisation FTW?
October 13, 2024 at 8:04 AM
Iron fertilisation FTW?