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Henk Muller

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That’s the average temperature in the UK over 150 years, now 2 degrees above pre industrial. That’s all.

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Henk Muller @henk-muller.bsky.social · 5h
Cry…
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#FOTW Daily Post 3 74% of Brits say climate change is important. 62% want the UK among the world's most ambitious. We're not a fringe. We're the majority — we just don't feel like the powerful collective we are. Time to feel it. Please share + tag 2. #TogetherUnstoppable #FateOfTheWorld
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Tom Toro @tbtoro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My latest for @climateconnections.bsky.social 🥳
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Henk Muller @henk-muller.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
To put this in perspective: this is the equivalent of every person on Earth boiling a cup of water every second. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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World’s seas heated by a record 23 zettajoules last year
The injection of thermal energy, 40 times that used by humanity in total, comes amid an increasing rise in sea levels and continuing acidification
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Henk Muller @henk-muller.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Fast charging needs a big battery Hybrid cars with big batteries are even more nonsense than hybrid cars with a small battery (shy carry a petrol engine?) This article is double nonsense www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Three-quarters of UK’s popular plug-in hybrid cars unable to use rapid chargers
Only 26% of PHEVs sold across top 20 models can use chargers with power of 50kW or more, analysis finds
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Henk Muller @henk-muller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Kemi is spot on with her headline. But she doesn’t know it. £180 billion damage this year and counting #ExtremeHeat www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Kemi Badenoch accuses Andy Burnham of ‘fiddling while Europe risks burning’
Tory leader claims prime minister is avoiding difficult decisions as she urges him to increase defence spending
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Henk Muller @henk-muller.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
One of those coincidences that billionaires who backed brexit first leave the country and then argue it’s on the slide. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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Henk Muller @henk-muller.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
FIFY
An XKCD image visualising what a change of plus or minus 4-5 degrees means
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Henk Muller @henk-muller.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A great article on the planned grid improvements in the UK. www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...
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Mapped: the £150bn megaproject that aims to protect Britain from energy shocks
Thousands of miles of new power lines are needed to deliver climate targets and energy security, but bills will rise in the short term and opponents are mobilising
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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It's eight years tomorrow since we posted on Twitter that Sting had been in to return his books.
A shelf on the book return trolley. The titles of the five books are Every Breath You Take, Every Move You Make, The Bonds That Break, Every Step You Take and I Am Watching You.
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Henk Muller @henk-muller.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
We just need to tax political parties with a top rate of 90% www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reform UK given record £36m donation by British crypto billionaire
Ben Delo was convicted in US for failing to implement adequate anti-money laundering controls but pardoned by Trump
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Kate Devlin @drkatedevlin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Me for the ipaper: "it’s likely they do believe this, viewing themselves as the Oppenheimers of the modern age. They see the race to develop bigger and better models as something that must be done despite potentially lethal consequences" inews.co.uk/opinion/worr...
inews.co.uk
Worried about the end of humanity thanks to AI? Here's what's really happening
It's not superintelligence we need to worry about, it's the people who are recklessly pressing ahead with powerful new systems
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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
So, how should we think about the TsunamAI, the "slopocalypse"? 1/n allouryesterdays.info/2026/09/07/t...
I thought maybe I’d coined another neologism – “slopocalypse” – but it turns out someone beat me to the punch 13 months ago.

Slopocalypse Now – by Gary Marcus – Marcus on AI 

From slop + -pocalypse. Coined by American cognitive scientist and psychologist Gary Marcus in 2025.

See wikitionary –

slopocalypse (plural slopocalypses)

(artificial intelligence, informal, neologism) A point where AI generated content becomes overwhelming, breaking safety standards and suffocating human produced content.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 10/09/2026
An IPCC stand-off risks a historic climate rupture ft.trib.al/X1SKXvw | opinion
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An IPCC stand-off risks a historic climate rupture
Pointless obstruction by governments over publishing scientific climate evaluation is threatening crucial work
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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
'The soil was barren, scarcely affording pasture for a few miserable cows, and oatmeal for its inhabitants, which consisted of five persons, whose gaunt and scraggy limbs gave tokens of their miserable fair.' Yeah, well, happy birthday Mary. Whatever.
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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
In one of our archive strong rooms there is a shelf. The shelf does not contain the most exciting or interesting item in the archive but it does contain something amazing. Read this short thread to find out more. 🧵👇
A row of Archive stacks with turning handles
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Henk Muller @henk-muller.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The highlighted points seem to be about annexation of Canada into the United States.
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Campaign against Climate Change @campaigncc.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Do respond to the consultation on Heathrow expansion (276,000 extra flights a year!) - it’s environmental and economic madness in a climate crisis. www.campaigncc.org/heathrow_con...
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Henk Muller @henk-muller.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
They should open a few sweet shops in London to give the company some credibility
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Henk Muller @henk-muller.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Enjoy your house burning down. Enjoy your harvest falling. Have we reached peak stupidity? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reform’s Tice says people should stop fighting climate crisis and ‘enjoy’ heat
Deputy leader says it is ‘arrogant’ to try to stop global heating, despite UK being left reeling by summer firewave
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Tom Hardy @tomxr.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Please add your name. #mediarevolution: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
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Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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Henk Muller @henk-muller.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Just 1,100 to go
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Henk Muller @henk-muller.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
We’re almost at the 100,000 point. Chris makes a great point; the alert isn’t about tinderbox Britain; it is about a catastrophic future that we must avoid.
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Henk Muller @henk-muller.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Great article by @pilitaclark.bsky.social detailing in very simple to understand language why we need to act on what’s happening to the world. @miattafahnbulleh.bsky.social over to you; we’re all hoping that you can make the government see sense
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Henk Muller @henk-muller.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
… atmospheric physics doesn’t care about what pleases the industry or is perceived as politically palatable … That should nail it. However, I fear that the government will pretend to be statesmanlike by being “pragmatic” whatever the fuck that means
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Alex Sobel MP @alexsobel.co.uk · 11/08/2026
I attended a screening of the People's Emergency Briefing and believe it deserves a national audience. The climate crisis isn't a future threat, it's affecting communities across the UK today. That's why I'm encouraging Channel 4 to broadcast it. 🌍📺 #ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis
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Henk Muller @henk-muller.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
A piece of art.
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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
'Excuse me, but do you have any books about TELEPHONES? Specifically STANDARD telephones, AND their CABLES? I don't want anything before 1883...or after 1983.' #NicheBookMonday
A book called Power of Speech - A history of standard telephones and their cables 1883 - 1983
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Henk Muller @henk-muller.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
One of the things you got to think about when you have a solar eclipse: 9 GWatt will disappear from the grid. Storage should be able to cope with this as it’s really a small blip. My money is on the Daily Telegraph screaming about how this is the definite proof that solar energy is useless.
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Henk Muller @henk-muller.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Please sign and repost this petition
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Bob Geiger @bobgeiger.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The great Dave Whamond (@davewhamond.bsky.social) on corporate media abandoning any role as arbiters of truth.
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Henk Muller @henk-muller.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Very Escheresque
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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Code Black for water shortage in the Delft region of the Netherlands! No use of surface water (canals, lakes) allowed anymore. Water managers fear intrusion of salty seawater, as damage to dikes due to low water levels need to be prevented. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
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Vanwege de droogte voor het eerst de sluizen dicht in het waterrijke westen: ‘Het is code zwart, vanaf middernacht is water onttrekken verboden’
Droogte: Vanaf woensdagnacht gaan in het Hoogheemraadschap van Delfland de sluizen dicht en gaat een verbod in om oppervlaktewater te onttrekken. Dat besef lijkt nog niet bij iedereen ingedaald. „Voor...
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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Greenhouse growers in the region want an exception, saying they need the water for irrigation. Water management board refuses. Growers: "Please give us water, or we'll have millions of damage to our crops. We don't care if salty seawater enters, any water is better than no water." nos.nl/l/2625554
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Glastuinders niet uitgezonderd van sproeiverbod, sector vreest miljoenenschade
De glastuinbouw in onder meer het Westland krijgt geen uitzondering op het sproeiverbod dat woensdag ingaat.
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Henk Muller @henk-muller.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I said it before, I’ll say it again. If we cut down all trees and concrete over the countryside, we’re completely safe from wild fires or land slides.
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Mark Ratledge @markratledge.com · 01/08/2026
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AdyBee 🐝 @adybee.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I want the BBC to do better. Incredibly in 2026 they’re still helping the fossil fuel industry to create doubt.
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Henk Muller @henk-muller.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Ah yes ignoring the laws of physics when the world is burning. Next Burnham will be pragmatic about gravity. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Burnham promises ‘pragmatic’ approach to North Sea oil and gas
PM tells reporters the government cannot ignore the energy resource ‘when people are struggling’
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Henk Muller @henk-muller.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Just to repeat once more, small and nearby, large and far away. Lerwick harbour.
A picture with a tiny fishing boat in the foreground and a massive cruiseschip in the background with the same apparent size
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Henk Muller @henk-muller.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This is a great and understandable write up of what happened. I fear the next Morris worm won’t be far away
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Robert Rohde @rarohde.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
See the alternating warm and cold patches in the Northern mid-latitudes? That's the imprint of a quasi-stationary Rossby wave (i.e. oscillations in the jet stream). It's rare to see it so clearly in a monthly-average temperature map.
Map of temperature anomalies in June 2025 relative to the 1951-1980 average.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
is there a pulitzer for photo captions because if so @theguardian.com just won it
Gianni Infantino carefully explains to Donald Trump that he is not part of the spanish national team.
Photograph: Javier García/Shutterstock
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Henk Muller @henk-muller.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
May this seal of approval from an evil man be all Andy Burnham and Co need to realise that they’re on the wrong side of history.
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Henk Muller @henk-muller.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Please let this headline be false. Out of all the policies that Burnham could’ve created, he’s opting to placate Trump and the oil industry, and hasten Armageddon in the process? Has anybody in Westminster observed the heatwaves and wildfires in the UK? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Burnham to announce plans for new North Sea oil and gas drilling
Drilling has become a controversial topic for the Labour party after the 2024 manifesto pledged to not issue new licences.
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Jack Grimes @jackapedia.design · 16/07/2026
Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley
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Henk Muller @henk-muller.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
@metoffice.gov.uk This is not a “New Normal”. That term suggests that we have plateaued. There’s no reduction of fossil fuel or carbon emissions in sight, so far from a “New Normal” @edhawkins.org could you tell them that this is a misleading term? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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UK's extreme weather is the new normal - Met Office
The latest report on the UK's climate warns cold mountainous areas are also being lost.
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Akru @akru.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy capital growth come, thy riches be won, on Earth, that it become Hell. Lead us not into rewilding, but generate asset growth, for we desire money, power and glory, forever and ever, Amen.
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Henk Muller @henk-muller.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
“The finest solid plastic“. What is there not to like?
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Henk Muller @henk-muller.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
This is something that would work in many countries; especially good with electric trains
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Debunking Rupert Lowe’s claims on Rogan’s podcast. Please share as widely as you can open.substack.com/pub/zeteouk/...
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Debunked! 9 False Claims Made by Rupert Lowe to Joe Rogan About Muslims, Migrants and More
The Restore Britain MP's description of the Dunblane massacre as 'one murder' has been widely and rightly condemned. But at Zeteo UK, we call out his many other offensive and ridiculous claims.
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