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Bob Jacques

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Stay alert,
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Watch the Eagle,
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(Gil Scott-Heron, 1982)
Joined November 2011
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Bob Jacques @bob__jacques
Bezos wants his children to use more energy than he will in his lifetime, trillions of people living in space and unlimited growth forever.
Here he is scoffing an iguana.
Thomas Gorton @AngstromHoot Jun 10, 2021
I think about this picture of Jeff Bezos eating an iguana a lot. A defining image of our time, a neo-gothic artefact, a 21st century vision of baroque. An utterly horrifying vibe.
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Bob Jacques @bob__jacques
“Europe heats up faster. This is because of the jet stream shift. In future years… it will be even more extreme. In the future we will think this [year’s heatwave] was not a heatwave; this was nice.” Marilena Oltmanns, National Oceanography Centre, UK
newscientist.com/article/258565…
www.newscientist.com Greenland meltwater is intensifying European heatwaves | New Scientist A surge of meltwater from Greenland’s ice sheet into the North Atlantic may be shifting the jet stream, resulting in more frequent and extreme heatwaves in western Europe
Bob Jacques @bob__jacques
Met Office UK: Climate extremes are new ‘normal’ - even without taking 2026 into account.
Decade to 2025 had 4/5 of warmest yrs on recorded.
Drier springs & summers, wetter winters.
Latest decade (2016-2025) 1.33°C warmer than the period from 1961-1990.

metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/news-…
www.metoffice.gov.uk Climate extremes are becoming the new ‘normal’ for the UK “What we used to think of as extreme, we increasingly consider as normal.” That is the summarising comment from Mike Kendon, the Met Office lead author of the latest edition of the State of the UK...