helenczerski

helenczerski, 1 month ago to climate

In the same way that you wouldn’t want someone to operate on your kidneys without a good general medical education covering blood, bones & the rest of the human system, I don’t think we want climate interventions trialed by people who don’t understand how Earth works & only consider the local problem and not the whole system it is an integral part of.

#Earth #climate

helenczerski, 1 month ago to physics

Nice to see that UCL is apparently making its contribution to physics here in Norway. Just found @jonbutterworth ’s Smashing Physics and my book Storm in a Teacup on the English language non-fiction bookshelves here in Bergen.

#UCL #Physics #books

helenczerski, 1 month ago to ocean

Nice to be asked to join BBC Newscast today, to talk about deep sea mining alongside Justin Rowlatt. What's hidden down there, and do we really need it up here?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0hkg3zw

#ocean #DeepSea #science #BBC #Newscast

helenczerski, 1 month ago to climate

OOH. On a ferry on the Sognefjord in Norway and AIS tells me this car ferry we just passed is the Ampere, the world’s first battery electric car ferry. It’s been operating in this fjord since 2015. 1000kWh Li-ion battery, aluminium hull, takes 120 cars.

https://archive.nordregio.se/en/Publications/Publications-2016/GREEN-GROWTH-IN-NORDIC-REGIONS-50-ways-to-make-/Clean-tech-and-renewable-energy--/Amper/index.html#:~:text=Ampere%20is%20an%2080%20by,of%20the%20normally%20used%20steel.

#climate

helenczerski, 1 month ago to climate

A backwards step:

“Britain’s car share clubs face closure as last insurer pulls out”

Even at current levels of car use, it’s silly to have so many- they’re expensive in materials, energy & money. As alternatives improve we need more car-sharing, not less.

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2024/mar/17/just-when-we-need-them-most-britains-car-share-clubs-face-closure-as-last-insurer-pulls-out?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

#climate #cars #Future

helenczerski, 1 month ago to ocean

Beautiful run this morning along the fjord in Sogndal in Norway. The great oceanographer Harald Sverdrup was born here in 1888, before going to Bergen, Scripps, then Oslo. Today we measure ocean currents in Sverdrups (one million cubic meters per second), but I can't find any tribute to him here 😥

#ocean #Sverdrup
#Norway #Running

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helenczerski, 2 months ago to instagramreality

Here in Bergen, they were ready for social media centuries before social media was invented.

#Trolls #SocialMedia

helenczerski, 2 months ago to climate

Amazing opportunity for students (& other young people) here - Everything Electric LONDON tickets are FREE for under-25s:

"Young adults (16-25) will get free admission to the show. Tickets can only be bought at the show when proof of age is provided."

If you know young people who are interested in working in or studying a clean future for energy and transport, this is for them. Please do pass the word on!

https://uk.everythingelectric.show/london/visit

#climate #students #London #Electrification

helenczerski, 2 months ago to books

In Blue Machine, I wrote about both the Heard Island experiment (an audacious attempt to take the temperature of the whole ocean using sound) and also haddock mating calls. It was therefore very pleasing to find posters at the huge Ocean Sciences meeting a few weeks ago on those completely unrelated topics (apart from both involving sound), sitting right next to each other.

#Books #ocean #science

helenczerski, 2 months ago to books

The Hay Festival (23rd May - 2nd June) isn't far away and the OCEAN will be there! If you're there and hear the excellent Helen Scales and I discussing what an ocean really is, what it means to be citizens of an ocean planet, and talking about a positive future for the blue of our blue planet.

Blue Machine will just have arrived in paperback & HS's book What the Wild Sea Can Be will just have been published.

https://www.hayfestival.com/hay-on-wye/home

@hayfestival #HayFestival2024 #Books #ocean

helenczerski, 2 months ago to random

Ooh, look... for International Womens Day, Fully Charged is offering 50% off tickets for women to the Everything Electric shows is London (28th-30th March) & Harrogate (24-26th May).

These shows are all about the future of clean energy & transport - home heating, micromobility, wind power, an electrified world, but also just better ways to live sustainably. Do join us!

"Use code WOMEN for 50% off tickets* to Everything Electric LONDON and Everything Electric NORTH! "

https://everythingelectric.seetickets.com/content/ticket-options

helenczerski, 2 months ago to science

It's high time we redefined "exploration:". It should NOT be about being big - drawing a map of something named after your sponsor, planting a flag, being "first". It should be about being small: sitting inside a system/place and learning how it works with humility, looking at the way it does things, not at what we see most easily or want to see. A map is not the end goal of exploration. It's just the tool that tells you where the starting point could be.

#exploration #science #nature

helenczerski, 2 months ago to Podcast

In today's Rare Earth, we're looking at how much we demand of our rivers, the history of how we got here, and how things could improve. There's far more to this than sewage! And hope is on the horizon. We also find out about some surprisingly calibrated (but relevant) pigs.

Broadcast on BBC Radio 4 at noon today and podcast will be here:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001wrhm

#Radio #podcast #Rivers #climate #environment

helenczerski, 2 months ago to photography

This evening I had the pleasure of opening this wonderful photography exhibition at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, timed to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the RNLI (on Monday). It focuses on the women in the RNLI, and it’s great. Do go! It’s free…

https://www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/national-maritime-museum/women-of-the-rnli
#RNLI #RMG #photography #London

helenczerski, 2 months ago to mastodon

University College London shoutout! UCL is unwilling to set up a Mastodon account now, but they say that if there's lots of UCL presence here already it will nudge them in this direction. If you're at UCL or know someone who is, and you're on here, please reply to this to let us know! Current chief plotters: @sellathechemist , me and maybe more)

#UCL #Mastodon #Universities

helenczerski, 2 months ago to climate

Are you a Geography or History teacher, or do you know one/lots? The UCL Centre for Climate Change Education is doing excellent work in making materials/CPD for teachers who want to include climate change in all subjects. They have new material for Hist/Geog available now. Please share.

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/departments-and-centres/centres/centre-climate-change-and-sustainability-education/teaching-sustainable-futures

#climate #teaching #CPD #schools

helenczerski, 2 months ago to Energy

Ooh, I've just seen the final schedule of sessions for the FullyCharged & Everything Electric LONDON show on March 28th, 29th and 30th: https://uk.everythingelectric.show/london and we have a FANTASTIC show for you. We'll be covering all the big questions about the future of energy and transport, with lots of new topics and amazing exhibitors. And it's definitely not just about cars - plenty of home energy, micromobility and society-level stuff. Do join us!

#energy #London #climate #electric

helenczerski, 2 months ago to climate

OMG, and there we have it. In a historical paper describing an argument from the 1840s about whether sewage systems should be one-way (and just take stuff "away") or circular (and spread sewage on the field to feed more people) this line about the disagreements between Edwin Chadwick and engineers like Bazelgette sets out reason that so much of modern engineering has caused environmental problems - it's been all about local solutions and not systems.

#climate #environment #history