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Steve Long @brknman.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Today's walk is Hyde park. Love how every single post has a bird on it.

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Steve Long @brknman.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Today's walk along the river Avon.

View of the river Avon between Bath and Bristol

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Steve Long @brknman.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Too many Red Kites to count.

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Steve Long @brknman.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Weekend walk along river Itchen.

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Steve Long @brknman.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Lovely walk at Blackwood Forest. Carpets of bluebells.

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Steve Long @brknman.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Hi Katherine, Hope you don't mind me asking. A friend is curator of reptiles at the natural history museum @MarcEHJones and regularly likes your tweets on twitter. He's not sure why he's been blocked but I wonder if you would reconsider? Thanks

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Joseph D. Ortiz @earthsciinfo.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

CO2 emissions from China are down 1.6% for Q1 2025 and 1% for the past 12 months. The greater deployment of renewables relative to fossil fuels appears to be starting to cut into emissions. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🔋 www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-cle...

CO2 emissions from China are down 1.6% for Q1 2025 and 1% for the past 12 months. The most recent peak in CO2 emissions from China was back in March 2024. Emissions are dropping because despite continuing to build out fossil fuels, renewable capacity and generation has increased in China and many sectors of their economy now have emissions that are flat or dropping.

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Steve Long @brknman.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Thanks, I'm looking forward to it, already started the induction courses they offer

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Steve Long @brknman.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Today I completed my @openuniversity.bsky.social application to start studying environmental science from October. i've wanted to do this for a long time and now that I'm only a few years from retiring it feels right.

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 15/04/2025

March 2025 was tied with March 2016 and March 2024 as the warmest on record in the Berkeley Earth dataset. It was 1.55C above preindustrial (1850-1900) levels. For more details, see the full Berkeley Earth surface temperature report for March here: berkeleyearth.org/ma...

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

There is no country/zone with a) high prices and low carbon emissions or b) with low prices and high emissions. The higher the carbon emissions from electricity generation in 2024, the higher the prices and vice versa. HT Esko Heinonen

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

They will absolutely come after Bluesky.

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Jaap Burger @jaapburger.eu · 07/02/2025

Italy's energy regulator extends until 2027 the scheme that allows households to benefit from additional capacity (6kW) at night and weekends to charge their EVs at no additional network charge. This scheme incentivises more efficient use of the grid by shifting most home charging to off-peak hours.

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Aggiornamenti della regolazione finalizzati a conciliare lo sviluppo della mobilità elettrica con la necessità di uno sviluppo razionale ed efficiente delle reti elettriche

Il provvedimento aggiorna alcuni aspetti della regolazione rilevanti per conciliare lo sviluppo della mobilità elettrica con la necessità di uno sviluppo razionale efficiente delle reti elettriche. Pe...

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Liz Lainé @lizlaine.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

It’s my day off so the Govt has announced its new minimum energy efficiency standards #MEES. Only 8 years since the Conservative Govt flagged they’re needed. 🧵 on initial news and thoughts.

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Warm homes and cheaper bills as government accelerates Plan for Change

Households across the country are set to benefit from cheaper bills and warmer homes as the government accelerates its Plan for Change.

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Steve Long @brknman.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

This is not normal. Sea ice in the seas around the arctic is disappearing when normally it would still be gaining

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Steve Long @brknman.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

What is Trumps end game ? The message so far is that you can no longer trust USA on the world stage and we must all become less reliant on them.

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Steve Long @brknman.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

It's the ones that start with how unsure they are to draw you in. "I don't know if...." As soon as you respond they are suddenly certain the earth isn't warming, heat pumps don't work, EVs are rubbish etc, etc.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

A typical European car is parked 92% of the time. It spends 1/5th of its driving time looking for parking. Its 5 seats only move 1.5 people. 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels, and most of the energy that does, moves the car, not the people. Sound efficient? HT @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social

Graphics fill of statistics on the efficiency or in efficiency of cars

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Sierra B. @sbravo007.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Make no mistake, this is the creation of the Schutzstaffel. This is the building of the camps. America is back…85 years in time. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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Steve Long @brknman.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Every single global scientific research body and establishment distress with you. And I see no point in carrying on a conversation with someone this ignorant

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 22/01/2025

NEW – EU’s solar and wind growth pushes fossil-fuel power to lowest level in 40 years | @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/4hfcKhk

EU electricity generation from coal, gas, wind and solar, terawatt hours, 1990-2024. Source: Ember.

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Steve Long @brknman.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

The sun is good but you can get sunburn if you stay out unprotected for too long . These arguments are meaningless without context. Being 'good' is subjective.

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Steve Long @brknman.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I missed the last one but will be doing tonights

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Steve Long @brknman.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Can anyone really claim to be surprised to discover space Karen backed Trump because he's a white supremacist?

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Steve Long @brknman.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

It's clear you aren't going to grasp this. No one ( and I mean no one) is planning to be solely reliant on wind and solar for electricity, even if the amount of W&S is increased and therefore reduces the amount of fossil fuel used. Here's the grids plans. www.neso.energy/publications...

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Future Energy Scenarios (FES) | National Energy System Operatorlogo--facebook

Future Energy Scenarios (FES) 2024: NESO Pathways to Net Zero represent different, credible

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Steve Long @brknman.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Yep, he hasn't got a clue what he's talking about. Heat pumps don't care whether the electricity is generated by wind, solar or gas. They are just a more efficient way of converting electrical energy into heat.

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Steve Long @brknman.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I'm smart enough to see you have zero evidence to support your arguments and so think spouting opinion will hide your inadequacies.

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Steve Long @brknman.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Look carefully at the text that is in quotes. Nothing that says heat pumps are more expensive or will never be cheaper. You've been duped.

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Steve Long @brknman.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

If your home receives electricity, you can heat your home. Without electricity your gas boiler doesn't work and the pumps that push gas to peoples houses don't work. No electricity, no gas heating. You really didn't think this through.

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Steve Long @brknman.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

His words - heat pumps will reduce consumers bills. "The potential around heat pumps, I think we are underestimating the extent with 1/2hrly settlement this can really make a massive difference to consumers and lead to lower bills" Game over.

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Steve Long @brknman.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I'm intrigued now. Why would you buy a newspapers interpretation over the actual words of the person they are reporting on? We can only assume that you like your information interpreted for you and then spoonfed. parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...

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Energy Security and Net Zero Committee

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Steve Long @brknman.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

This is evasion. The argument is whether electricity is as reliable as gas for domestic heating. Why do you struggle with this? A heat pump could be powered by electricity 100% generated by gas and it would still be 2-3x more efficient at providing the same amount of heat.

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Steve Long @brknman.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Lol!! I provided video evidence of his comments. You made it up. More specifically he said adoption of heat pumps with TOU tariffs would make consumers bills cheaper. So why are you ignoring this?

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Steve Long @brknman.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

He didn't say it would cause hardship. He said people wouldn't be persuaded if it did cause hardship . Your comprehension skills are shocking .

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Steve Long @brknman.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

That's the point, You have been spoonfed a meaning that doesn't exist in the ministers evidence. As I have already quoted to you.

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Steve Long @brknman.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Lol!! You believed the daily mail over the actual evidence of his submission. I bet you also think Freddy Star ate his friends hamster.

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Steve Long @brknman.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

So we have to assume again you have no quote. Let me provide one for you from his statement. "The potential around heat pumps, I think we are underestimating the extent with 1/2hrly settlement this can really make a massive difference to consumers and lead to lower bills" 16:32pm

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Steve Long @brknman.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Finally an admission that you made it up. If never is the case.. how comes it's already true in most of Europe and for those in the UK on TOU tariffs? That you are now down to personal insults shows how weak your argument is.

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Steve Long @brknman.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

So what did he say? Provide an exact quote please instead of arguing on the basis of what you think he said.

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Steve Long @brknman.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Your argument has zero sense . We aren't comparing a gas boiler to wind power. We are comparing heat derived from domestic gas to using electricity. You do know 25% of our electricity is generated by burning gas and NESO includes abated gas beyond 2050?

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Steve Long @brknman.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

The question again isn't what I or you claim. It's what the UK government minister actually said. So quote to me what he actually said that supports your claim.

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Steve Long @brknman.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

"he conceded they are not cheaper. " Can you give me the time in the submission to the select committee when this was said and what his actual words were?

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