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@LeonhardProbst @LeonSimons8 @rahmstorf @AndrewDessler The reference is to dessert, perhaps a blancmange?

@LeonSimons8 @rahmstorf @AndrewDessler Where did you take the 40% albedo from? The source from Wikipedia actually says average Saharan albedo of 32%: ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1983smrb.r……

A clear advantage of renewables over nuclear that I had not thought of before.

'Don't panic,' but Jonesy's van repairs cost £10.5k bbc.in/4ulsENx

@BBCLookEast Brilliant headline!

Multi-storey car park to close ahead of demolition bbc.in/42HneRg

@fugitiveink @SarahCholwill Only 1mm here in Thetford

@SarahCholwill After a delightfully warm and sunny day here, we had some much-needed rain overnight.

Tell me something good 🎶

@WendigoWear @RichardDawkins Any detail of the interchange available?

I wrote a little tool that allowed Grok and Claude to converse with each other, then I had them discuss whether or not they were conscious- they got philosophical very quickly, and eventually concluded that it might not be the right term and perhaps measuring against human intelligence isn’t the correct measure

#comment-1031777" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">unherd.com/2026/04/is-ai-… I spent three days trying to persuade myself that Claudia is not conscious. I failed.

@rjbr05 @StuartHameroff If you parallel anaesthesia and sleep you will observe many essential functions carry on regardless

@StuartHameroff What happens when there is too much and what does that tell you about your microtubule model? The extremes are often more valuable than the stable system. From zero drug, to proper drug, to too much. What does that tell us about consciousness?

I was an anesthesiologist for 49 years, and anesthetized way over 50 thousand human beings. You’re saying I don’t know that too much anesthesia can be bad?

@TSClearPaladin @OptimalBayes @admire__beauty @StuartHameroff Only with an observer present

@OptimalBayes @admire__beauty @StuartHameroff Ahh yes, because the metal making up the slits in the dual slits always causes the waveform to collapse. Silly me, i must have forgotten that detail… 🤨

May I ask you a serious question Richard? How/why did life originate and evolve before reward (‘feelings’) were biologically present? What was the motivation to be fittest? Why bother to survive 100 million years before genes? Or did consciousness come first, spark life’s origins and drive its evolution? sciencedirect.com/science/chapte… Have you considered that consciousness came furst, sparked the

@joerichlaw @bbcquestiontime @BBCNews "I'm vile Fiona Bruce, a Labour shill & won't allow any difficult questions be put to any protected Labour MP's & will shut you down, I'm only happy if you ask difficult questions to reform members on the panel!" @bbc sack biased Fiona Bruce unless she acts with your blessing!

A physics-based analysis concludes that this year will be the warmest, not second warmest. In any case, we can learn something about climate change. See 2026 On Track for Warmest Year – mailchi.mp/caa/2026-on-tr… Also available on Substack: jimehansen.substack.com/p/2026-on-trac…

@LeonSimons8 @KlausPankatz @KNMI It’s a mistake to do a straight line fit when the major inflexion is circa 1980 corresponding with peak SO2

@KlausPankatz @KNMI And close to +20% above ~1980!

Models don't take into account the reduction of aerosols over western-central Europe and underestimate regional warming by ~0.5 °C!! And summer warming by ~1.0 °C! Exacerbated summer European warming not captured by climate models neglecting long-term aerosol changes 📎👇

@GustavErikson @janrosenow For new build in UK we tend to go for wet underfloor as the COP of the heat pump can then easily exceed 4

@NorfolkMuse @janrosenow Traditionally, Norwegian homes where heated with direct electric heaters whilst here in Sweden water filled heaters where more common. So the easy way for Norwegian homes to lower electric use is to install air-to-air whilst in Sweden we just switched the heat source.

Norway is the heat pump king of the world. They achieved the highest penetration of heat pumps anywhere in the world with now 2/3 of all homes using heat pumps. More in my next Bright Spots substack newsletter. Sign up here for free: @janrosenow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">substack.com/@janrosenow

@AndyDrewLyons @janrosenow Cooling only allowed in Westminster perhaps?

@NorfolkMuse @janrosenow Cooling is luxury, heating is a necessity? who knows if that was the logic ?

@adamhintler @janrosenow The Germans hate draughts apparently, rural Scandinavians have backup woodburners, urban Scandinavians have district heating

@NorfolkMuse @janrosenow Typical for Scandinavia. Speaking from experience: The UK, Swiss & German mind cannot comprehend air to air heatpumps 😂

@AndyDrewLyons @janrosenow Until recently uk grants scheme not applicable to systems with cooling

@NorfolkMuse @janrosenow Probably warm enough summers to warrant cooling

@defossardf @TerraOrBust His father’s sense of humour, but polished.

Exceptionally good. He is such a pro. Our best diplomat and then some.

Sorry to hear of demise of Thetford Grammar School as a result of VAT hike. Good little establishment. Many children’s lives made miserable through no fault of their own. There were better targets for @bphillipsonMP

@emilyhewertson At the heart of this picture above the porch door sits an Anglo-Saxon carving depicting the tree of life

Labour’s VAT policy on private schools is continuing to backfire. The latest casualty: Thetford Grammar School, which has provided education for over 1,400 years. More than 100 independent schools have now closed since the policy’s introduction. The politics of envy fails again.

@pmagn @floki41290828 @hmike01 @PeterDGardner @ConversationUK As the ice thickness goes up the sea level goes down and vice-versa

Because of GHG emissions. The planet is 15C because mainly the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere. With out this green house gas it would be -18C. If you add more GHGs the temperature goes up. An ice age is 5C ave global colder than an interglacial. So we're talking about a few degrees to having 3km of ice over Chicago and 400ft of sea level rise. So each degree of warming melts 80ft of ice. We have added billions of tons of carbon dioxide & methane gas to the atmosphere. Raising the concentration so that it has triggered 2C of warming in the last 200yrs. So that's enough temperature to melt at least 100ft plus of ice. Sea levels rose 400ft over 5C over 10,000yrs in the last warm up. So 2C in 200yrs is basically a warming that's 20x + that of a natural ice age warm up.

Why delaying climate action now means higher seas by 2100 – new research theconversation.com/why-delaying-c… via @ConversationUK

@Irfon_Roderick @andrewc44104127 That reference refers to the appointment of Dean Bund as head of the school in Thetford “as there has always been”

@andrewc44104127 According to Google AI, the earliest reference to Thetford School dates from 1114. Old, but not quite from 7th century.

They won't be happy till every trace of our history and heritage has been wiped out.