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Nicola Terry

@nicola.qeng-ho.org
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Obsessed with heat pumps but anything to do with energy. Also water.

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Nicola Terry @nicola.qeng-ho.org · 27/07/2026
Here is a great video about Thrive Renewables @thriverenewables.bsky.social latest wind farm project in Scotland. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J5y... Watch turbine blades travelling by road :-) Roll on the grid connections Scotland/England!
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Winds of change: construction progresses at Whitelaw Brae wind farm
YouTube video by Thrive Renewables
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Nicola Terry @nicola.qeng-ho.org · 23/07/2026
My latest post - Dealing with uncertainty in climate change risks is now at: energy-surprises.blogspot.com/2026/07/deal...
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ClientEarth Europe @clienteartheur.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
We just won a landmark case to protect one of Europe’s most important marine sanctuaries: the Dogger Bank. 💫 The court ruling sets a precedent for governments across Europe and sends a clear message: protected must mean protected.
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LisaZed 👩🏻‍🎨 🌏 🐨🌳🇪🇭🇺🇦 @lisazed.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Germany has developed **clear solar panels** designed specifically for greenhouses. These innovative panels generate electricity while still allowing enough sunlight to pass through for crops to thrive underneath, offering a dual solution for food production and renewable power.
Picture of plants in a greenhouse growing under clear see through PV panels.
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Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 02/09/2025
Expect your mobile to go off 3pm Sunday! Be prepared for a test of the Govt's emergency alert system. Full info... www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2025/09... LIVING WITH DOMESTIC ABUSE? If you've a hidden mobile, you the link above has details of how to opt out of the alert. Pls share
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New Economics Foundation @neweconomics.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
This tiny proportion of ultra-frequent flyers are responsible for a huge chunk of journey by plane and aviation emissions. 3/5
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Paul McNamara @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Britain’s sandwich makers have reached the point of just sticking gochujang in everything. I wouldn’t bet against the existence of a “Korean Ploughman’s” at this point.
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Nicola Terry @nicola.qeng-ho.org · 20/06/2025
Recycle fluff from your washing machine. BBC News www.bbc.com/news/article... Plastic microfibres from washing clothes can now be recycled into products for packaging or construction. This requires a cartridge from Cleaner Seas for your washing machine filter. www.cleaner-seas.com/products/ref...
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Bude centre recycles microfibres from clothes washing
The centre could recycle 86 tonnes of microfibres each year, says the Cleaner Seas Group.
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Nicola Terry @nicola.qeng-ho.org · 02/02/2025
The trouble with SAF flightfree.co.uk It's easy to forget just how bad SAF is, in so many ways. Most passenger aviation is for leisure and not justifiable in any way.
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Flight Free UK
Fight climate change: make the pledge to be flight free in 2025
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Chris Baraniuk @chrisbaraniuk.com · 17/01/2025
Plus, it is accompanied by this excellent sign.
A photo of a small, white, rectangular sign on a wall that reads: Please do not touch the walrus or sit on the iceberg.
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Nicola Terry @nicola.qeng-ho.org · 15/01/2025
This is useful to know - do not clean solar panels with dishwasher detergent! techxplore.com/news/2025-01...
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Solar panels should not be cleaned with dishwashing detergent, study shows
A study conducted at the University of Turku, Finland, investigated how household cleaning products affect the ability of solar panel glass to transmit light. The results of the study were presented a...
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Colin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
I’ve known Sumit for years and he never struck me as what I would call “optimistic”, so it was a bit surprising when he said he was writing this. He does an excellent job explaining what he means in this extract www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
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‘I became an optimist the night my wife died’: a science writer on loss and letting go of rationalism
Sumit Paul-Choudhury had always prided himself on his critical thinking, until his wife was diagnosed with cancer and he was forced to rethink his life from scratch
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Chris Smith @renewablesmiffy.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
It’s been equally interesting doing the opposite in Greece. People will often cool down to as a standard 18-20c in summer when we found 22/23c to be acceptable
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Kate de Selincourt @katedes.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
I think the finding that some homes developed damp and mould is important to note. Although we can trace some of the impacts of cold homes to direct physiological changes, eg increased blood pressure, an unknown amount of the cold homes -> ill health epidemiology almost certainly relates to damp.
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Catie Hausman @catiehausman.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Planning your climate or environment syllabus? I like to show short videos so students & I can visualize some of the things we're talking about. Here are some of the ones I like:
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Dan Grey @dangrey.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
I find 19° is ok for my fingers but at 18° I too am reaching for my half-finger gloves! I think the 2014 UKHSA review is worth respecting; they have stood by that recommendation since. I think people should be discouraged from going below 18° www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Keeping warm and well: staying safe in cold weather
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Nicola Terry @nicola.qeng-ho.org · 02/01/2025
Want to cut energy bills and carbon with little upfront cost and no discomfort? Turning down the thermostat plus heated blankets and chairs is one answer. I report from a study in Belgum over 3 years. Breaking social norms turns out to be a big barrier. energy-surprises.blogspot.com/2025/01/how-...
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How cold can you go? Is 16°C reasonable?
As we enter a cold snap, and energy prices have risen again, we are more worried about how to manage our home heating. The easiest way to re...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
How Oil Companies Offload Costly Cleanup Onto the Public
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The American Oil Industry’s Playbook, Illustrated: How Drillers Offload Costly Cleanup Onto the Public
Oil executive Tom Ragsdale walked away from his old wells, making the pollution left behind the state of New Mexico’s problem. His tactics, however, are ubiquitous in the industry.
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 10/12/2024
Here is how daily global surface temperatures have changed since the 1940s. Note that global temperatures show a modest seasonal cycle due to a higher proportion of land are in the Northern Hemisphere.
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Zak Bond @zakbond.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
Big heat network news you might have missed yesterday: DESNZ and Westminster have brought in Hemiko & Vital Energi to make the South Westminster Area Network a reality. It'll use heat from the Thames and the Underground to heat homes and commercial properties. And perhaps even Parliament?
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Waterstones have made Blue Machine one of their "Best paperbacks of 2024", which is very nice of them. If you know anyone who likes books but has little interest in the ocean, this could be the ideal Christmas present (seriously!). I mean, who doesn't want to know about the worm with 1000 anuses?
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Hendrik Tiesinga @hendrikt.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
"All-electric DAC deployed at large scale — say, 10 gigatonnes of CO2 removed annually — would require 12,000 terawatt-hours of electricity, which is more than 40 percent of total global electricity generation today." #energysky #climatesky #climatetech #carbonremoval news.mit.edu/2024/reality...
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Reality check on technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the air
An MIT Energy Initiative study finds many climate-stabilization plans are based on questionable assumptions about the future cost and deployment of “direct air capture” and therefore may not bring abo...
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Carbon Neutral Cambridge @cnccambridge.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Support our campaign to double the width of the ridiculously narrow bridge on the 'Burrell's Walk' active travel route between Cambridge City Centre and University's west Cambridge Site carbonneutralcambridge.org/widen-burrel...
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Widen Burrell’s Walk Bridge - Carbon Neutral Cambridge
Burrell’s Walk is the key active travel route between the city center and the west of Cambridge, but the bridge is far too narrow for the numbers of pedestrians and cyclists that use it. Carbon Neutra...
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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
It should be manageable - but it puts the onus on manufacturers to make quieter heat pumps (which they have already been doing). Fortunately, it seems that having lots of heat pumps on a street doesn’t lead to big cumulative noise impacts either www.nesta.org.uk/report/air-s...
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Nicola Terry @nicola.qeng-ho.org · 20/11/2024
Cambridge Water has hit the news again. Will the environment agency compromise on nature? Will Central Govt. accept no growth without more water? Will OFWAT allow price rises? Will households reduce consumption? BBC News - Cambridge Water warned over supply and demand www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Cambridge Water warned over supply and demand
The company has been told there are concerns about whether it can meet demand as Cambridge expands.
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Dave Walker @davewalker.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
A summary of my cycling cartoons: Twenty Little Cycling Drawings. [Larger versions found here: davewalker.com/twenty/ ]
Twenty little black and white cycling line drawings, as follows:
It’ll be worth it / great view from the top (person cycling up a hill).
Bike shed - caption 'Room for another one?'
This machine fights climate change (bicycle).
'Slow and steady wins the race'. Picture of person on upright bike.
Bike helmet with 'A safe route would be even better' written on it.
People cycling helps drivers, showing how cycling removes one car from the queue in front of you.
Cargo bike (yes you can). Picture of cargo bike carrying washing machine.
Ding dong. Bike bell. (Cyclists: Pass pedestrians with care).
Cycling helps the NHS, written inside a heart.
There’s a bike for almost everyone, showing an adapted cycle.
Give us space - thank you. Diagram showing safe passing distance.
VIP transport (Very Important Pet). Pet in bike basket.
Picture of person on bike with caption 'Pays the same taxes you do'.
Folding bike picture, showing how they open up possibilities. Car boot, under your desk, on a train.
Take care please. Picture showing family on bikes ('could be your family') with car behind.
This week’s shopping, arrows pointing at shopping on bike.
E-bikes aren’t cheating. Picture of bike going up hill.
'Largely fuelled by cake', written on a piece of cake with bicycle topper.
Where there’s a road let's make a safe bike route too. Shows bike route next to road.
'Have fun out there'. Two cyclists and a sign saying 'adventure', pointing in the direction they are going.
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Iain Soutar @isoutar.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Interesting set of reflections in here on flying vs overland travel for academics. It's certainly becoming more normal - at least in my own organisation - to discuss this stuff openly and without blanket judgements, and hear similar things from the wider sector.
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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
What is causing the atmospheric CO2 concentration to growth (light blue bars)? It is all the fossil CO2 emissions (brown) we dump into the atmosphere (a little LUC too), with the land (green) & ocean (dark blue) sinks struggling to keep up. More figures: robbieandrew.github.io/GCB2024/
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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Right - EPC reform! You know those energy performance certificates that you see on Rightmove? They’re terrible, everyone in the energy sector hates them. But actually reforming them is tricky. My colleague @tomleach.bsky.social tries to chart a way forward www.nesta.org.uk/blog/epcs-ne...
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EPCs need radical reform - here’s four ways how
The system has become too complicated. It's time to make EPCs useful.
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EssaysConcern @richarderskine.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Hydrogen burning in homes is one of the least plausible uses, as many have pointed out. If you are not already aware of it, @mliebreich.bsky.social's Hydrogen Ladded (which shows the few applications where hydrogen can beat alternatives) is a must read www.linkedin.com/pulse/hydrog... #Energysky
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Hydrogen Ladder Version 5.0
So my lovelies, here it is: Version 5.0 of the Hydrogen Ladder! This is the first major update since Version 4.
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EssaysConcern @richarderskine.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Now of course they feel cowed by the disinformation and perceived ethical hazard. But there is nothing ethical lumbering poor homes with gas that is so volatile and with climate breakdown. The Government urgent task is to reform the skewed electricity market; and much more. Get on the front foot!/
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Max Roser @maxroser.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
My colleague Hannah Ritchie has published an excellent three-part series on the impact of climate change on agriculture. In part 1 she shows that yields have increased dramatically in recent decades, but some crops would have improved more without climate change. ourworldindata.org/crop-yields-...
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Crop yields have increased dramatically in recent decades, but crops like maize would have improved more without climate change
Climate change has slowed the productivity of key crops such as maize and soybeans, but might have had small positive impacts on wheat.
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 13/11/2024
Analysis: Global CO2 emissions will reach new high in 2024 despite slower growth | @hausfath.bsky.social @pfriedling.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/3Atr9Xz
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/01/2024
Reducing methane emissions is one of the easiest climate actions. The Biden administration announced that it will fine oil and gas companies $900 to 1,500 on every ton of excess methane emitted.
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Biden Administration to Fine Oil and Gas Companies for Excess Methane
A plan to impose a fee of $900 to $1,500 on every excess ton of methane emissions would be the first federal price on greenhouse gas pollution.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
Almost 1 in 25 cars on UK roads is now electric. The proportion of new cars sold that are electric has grown from 6.6% in 2020, to 18.1% in 2024.
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Nicola Terry @nicola.qeng-ho.org · 06/11/2024
How much can you expect to pay for removing the gas meter as you come off gas? energy-surprises.blogspot.com/2024/11/how-... I have collated your inputs along with other sources to give consumer advice and some suggestions for @ofgem.bsky.social too.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
Batteries now play a huge role in some energy systems around the world. Look at California - not long ago you wouldn’t be able to see contributions from batteries. Few expected batteries to ever compete. Today instead of fossil fuel generation batteries discharge stored renewable electricity.
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Will Hall @wphall.bsky.social · 04/10/2024
An interesting model which could be replicated here in the UK; instead of sinking an ever-increasing amount into the existing gas grid, which we’ll need to decommission before the end of its technical life.
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Nicola Terry @nicola.qeng-ho.org · 27/10/2024
When switching to a heat pump, coming off gas saves circa £100 per year standing charge but you have to get your supplier to disconnect the meter. They often charge for this but the amount seems to vary eg £0 to £1000 or more. Is there no regulation? Is there a petition to limit the charge?
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Nicola Terry @nicola.qeng-ho.org · 23/10/2024
European governments are stalling on airport expansion. www.euractiv.com/section/eet/... while the UK is still gung-ho. www.gov.uk/government/n... @carbonbrief.org finds that the reduction in emissions from using SAF will be totally offset by sector growth. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-ben...
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Analysis: Benefits of UK ‘sustainable aviation fuel’ will be wiped out by rising demand - Carbon Brief
UK government targets for “sustainable aviation fuels” will only cut emissions from the sector to 0.8% below current levels in 2040
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Prof Cath Noakes @cathnoakes.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
Save the date! We’re hosting a free webinar on 8th Nov 1-3pm for World Ventilate Day. Join us to hear about research studies and practice on improving ventilation for schools, homes, offices, hospitals and small business. Sign up here www.eventbrite.com/e/building-t...
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Building the Evidence to Improve Ventilation
Join us for an online event to explore how research can support evidence for better ventilation and how this can change practice.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 06/10/2024
We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer at @cworthy.bsky.social to help build a system to support standardization of carbon removal accounting and environmental impact assessments related to deployments of marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) technologies. Please share with your network. 🌊🧪
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Convergent Research - Senior Software Engineer
[C]Worthy is building a software system – called C-Star – to support standardization of carbon removal accounting and environmental impact assessments related to deployments of marine carbon dioxide r...
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Tim Smedley @timsmedley.bsky.social · 23/09/2024
Signed. If you're in the UK, please do too. #RegenAg #Farming #Nature
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 23/09/2024
Both Sam Altman (OpenAI) and Dario Amodei (Anthropic) have made some version of the argument that AI will give us the power to "fix the climate". I find this a deeply problematic position, as the challenges of mitigation are as much political as technological.
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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
New personal post: Against cheap stuff On the various problems caused by things being too cheap or free, from enabling monopolies to making it hard for people to make a living acjsissons.medium.com/against-chea...
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Against cheap stuff
When I was young, my mother briefly instituted a boycott against Nestle in our household. In her telling, it was because they were giving…
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Rebecca Willis @bankfieldbecky.bsky.social · 13/09/2024
Planning permission for the Cumbria coal mine has been quashed. I've been working on this for 5 years - 5 years of disbelief that our laws would allow new coal, & that claims of a 'net zero coal mine' could be made. It shouldn't have been so hard. cornerstonebarristers.com/cumbria-coal...
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Cumbria Coal Mine Permission Quashed on Four Grounds | Cornerstone Barristers
Legal challenge to the controversial new underground coal mine at Whitehaven in Cumbria, brought by local community group South Lakeland Action on Climate Change – […]
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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 14/09/2024
Weekend plug for my (personal) bad idea: give every 18 year old a plot of land, with permission to build housing on it. acjsissons.medium.com/a-bad-idea-g...
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A bad idea: give every 18 year old their own plot of land
I think this is a bad idea, but I’m going to write it down anyway: whenever someone in the UK turns 18, we should give them a plot of land…
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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
New personal post! Should we give every 18 year old their own plot of land? I'm pretty sure this is a bad idea, but I wrote it down because I think it's an interesting way to think about land ownership and inequality acjsissons.medium.com/a-bad-idea-g...
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A bad idea: give every 18 year old their own plot of land
I think this is a bad idea, but I’m going to write it down anyway: whenever someone in the UK turns 18, we should give them a plot of land…
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Bentley ****TALK CLIMATE**** @bigclimate.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
Communicating consensus strengthens beliefs about #climate change, finds 27-country study phys.org/news/2024-08...
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Communicating consensus strengthens beliefs about climate change, finds 27-country study
Climate scientists have long agreed that humans are largely responsible for climate change. However, people often do not realize how many scientists share this view. A new 27-country study published i...
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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 09/09/2024
There are many challenges involved in this. What should the threshold be for getting support? How well can we actually target lower income homes? How do you support people with health conditions who need warmer homes? How do you encourage people to use energy more efficiently and switch off gas?
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