Martin Lloyd / He/Him

When a young person feels forgotten, someone taking the time to remember them at Christmas could be the greatest gift they get. Buy a homeless young person a Christmas dinner from @centrepointuk this festive season: centrepoint.org.uk/virtual-gifts/…

I think it’s quite outrageous that a firm like Exxon gets to speak at a crisis meeting on the failure of the world to move fast enough on emission reductions when it’s been one of the main forces behind the slow action. And continues to expand oil and gas globally.

When things change, they change really fast. It took 68 years to get to 1 TW of solar PV, and just 2 years to double that... reneweconomy.com.au/it-took-68-yea…

This is a great threat, not just for the ideas within, but for the wonderful phrase 'Mancin-Synematic Universe'

Losing 8% of your subscribers is a lot. Enough to set fire to every business plan they have. Enough that their advertisers will start asking for discounts. Of course Bezos can bankroll this, but still...

Excellent thread on how people conceive of government spending. (And perhaps large numbers in general)

Tomorrow's reading osf.io/preprints/soca…

The job title 'Director Athlete Services and Training' at Nike sounds very different when you realise that 'Athlete' is what they call their store employees, a fact hidden about 300 words into the job description.

What an amazing picture of Newcastle today. About 10 racists outnumbered by this many Geordies. Sorry couldn't be there. There is an antiracist majority in the UK ❤️

It's a while since it came out, but here's a review of Amazing Heroes, the quick playing story focused Super Hero game you've been waiting for... dreamsdragons.com/2024/03/amazin…

@milnermaths Don't slouch at the table.

Anyone know what "good form" in a #TTRPG is? #RPGADAY2024

It's true. Click the link in the post and you're taken straight to the option to turn this off.

The sentence is awful. The muppets making spurious claims to argue it should be harder might just be worse.

@scrollforinit I roll initiative once, at the start of the session and seat players around the table in that order. Saves a lot of time.

All too true. Although 1. Leading thoughts and 2. Followers would work as well.

So China's likely going to hit the target of 1,200 GW wind and solar generating capacity this month, far ahead of the 2030 deadline. This is a big deal, and shows China always under-promises and over-delivers, right? Not really. I said already when China's 2030 wind and solar target was announced that it wasn't a serious one, as much more solar and wind would be needed to meet China's headline climate commitments. The target of raising the share of non-fossil energy to 25% of the energy mix by 2030 was always going to require much more than 1,200 GW of solar and wind, and this target in turn has to be met or exceeded to hit the carbon intensity target. x.com/laurimyllyvirt… So given that China is badly behind on the much more important carbon intensity target, people shouldn't read much into this very soft target being achieved ahead of time. My analysis highlighting the severe shortfall on the other, more important targets: carbonbrief.org/analysis-recor… This isn't of course meant to take away from the fact that China's solar development in the past two years has been very impressive. The carbon intensity commitment is the one that most directly limits CO2 emissions, and the amount of emissions is of course the only thing that ultimately matters to the climate. Meeting the CO2 intensity commitments requires the addition of very large amounts of clean energy, as cleaning up energy supply is the most important way of meeting the targets. To support the rollout of clean energy, China set the target of increasing the share of non-fossil energy in the energy mix. Already in 2020, simple arithmetic showed that China would need much more than 1,200 GW of wind and solar to meet the non-fossil energy target. There is little potential for adding new hydropower, and the ambition on adding nuclear was already known, so the rest of the target was going to be met mostly by solar and wind. My calculations back then indicated that the 1,200 GW target would be hit by around 2026, so the speedup of solar in the past two years did mean the target was met faster than expected. However, China's energy consumption growth in the past three years was also much faster than targeted, so China is in fact off track to the carbon intensity and non-fossil energy commitments at the moment. On the other hand, maintaining the rapid growth of solar and wind achieved in the past two years would make the 2030 targets easy to reach. The impressive acceleration in solar power deployment in 2023 - if maintained - does open up the possibility of China's emissions peaking and starting to fall earlier than targeted, which would provide new hope of Paris agreement goals being met and success in global efforts to curb climate change. I just find it very important that the 1,200 GW milestone isn't used to detract from China's more important commitments. That doesn't help create accountability.

Turns out, Suella Braverman is exactly who you thought she was.

Well, my kids are guaranteed a winner on Wednesday. #EngNed.

Apparently this has five replies but I can't see any of them... what is up with x?

Very early days, but I get the impression that the new labour government have a more detailed plan for their first 100 days than any new government in my memory.