Ruth_Mottram

Ruth_Mottram, 1 year ago to random

Interesting piece in #TheEconomist who attribute 68,000 excess deaths in #Europe to high energy prices. Who to blame?

Putin obviously for weaponising #energy in the invasion of #Ukraine.

Successive governments for not #Decarbonising and #insulating buildings faster?

Voters and consumers for not demanding #EnergyEfficiency and a resilient robust society?

Ultimately perhaps blame is not constructive: but I feel this analysis does show where to focus efforts

https://social.platypush.tech/@economist_bot/110348931361311866

Ruth_Mottram, 7 months ago to random

How to use Mastodon

Lots of people have asked me about mastodon, and lots of people have said they've found it difficult. SO I wrote a post, because I believe we should think carefully about where and how we engage, and who benefits.

With big thanks to @feditips
@micron

and many others for the suggestions

http://sternaparadisaea.net/2023/10/04/how-to-use-mastodon/

Ruth_Mottram, 4 months ago to random

Ok mastodon, (or at least the part of it currently going through a big freeze), show me your strange ice pictures, your weird ice spikes, needle ice, hair ice and frazil ice, your beautiful ice crystals.

Is #icetodon a thing year? It should be. I'll start.

Ruth_Mottram, 9 months ago to BBC

So, the #BBC got here. And they're hosting their own server it seems...

https://social.bbc/about

Ruth_Mottram, 6 months ago to Ukraine

Danish farmer about #Ukraine's membership of the #EU :

"I had not imagined that there would be war in Europe again. But if EU membership for Ukraine can ensure that it doesn't happen again, I would be more than happy to pay 25 per cent of my agricultural subsidies from the EU to them," says Leif Hougaard.

• "This would mean a lower income and less to fall back on. But that's how it is and should be. Because no one is dying here."

https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/udland/eu/det-kan-blive-dyrt-landmanden-leif-hougaard-hvis-ukraine-kommer-med-i-eu-men-han

Ruth_Mottram, 1 year ago to random

Still thinking about this article in #SamvirkeDK : it's a bit counter-intuitive but Danes actually cycle 20% less than in 2014. The article is clear that it's not because we're getting lazy but because we don't invest enough in #cycling.

The Netherlands spends 5x per head each year than #Denmark does.
Especially outside + on the edge of the big cities cycling becomes hard. Given #cyclingLife has so many benefits from health to clean air to congestion it's a scandal

https://samvirke.dk/artikler/cykelglaeden-ruster-hvorfor-vaelger-vi-cyklen-fra

Ruth_Mottram, 3 months ago to Ukraine

This is quite possibly the least reassuring video @anderspuck has ever made, but it might also be the most important.

#BePrepared #Ukraine
How soon can a NATO-Russia war happen?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptnboLDPS38

Ruth_Mottram, 7 months ago to random

So the scrapping of the #insulation scheme is probably the most baffling of all of the roll-backs that #Rishi Sunak announced yesterday - at least when seen from Scandinavia - British houses are legendary for their leakiness.

And hasn't the #UKgov heard of Russia?

Ruth_Mottram, 11 months ago to cycling

TIL, NL has an annual #bicycle ride along the 0 sea level line for #Climate

There's a surprising amount of #TheNetherlands below sea level...

https://www.h2owaternetwerk.nl/h2o-actueel/climate-classic-375-km-fietsen-langs-nap-nulmeterlijn-voor-het-klimaat

Ruth_Mottram, 8 months ago to ClimateAnxietySupport

Occasionally I am contacted by people who have severe climate anxiety (or climate depression). In my experience there is very often something else in the background going on. But I wonder if anyone on here has good resources to point people towards (other than psychological help) #ClimateAnxiety #KlimaAngst #KlimaDepression #ClimateDepression

Ruth_Mottram, 9 months ago to tesla

I doubt many people on here will be surprised by the grifts that #Tesla and Musk are pulling, but reading them all in this oner compiled by @pluralistic , it does make me wonder why on earth anyone actually buys Tesla cars? (Or are all car companies this bad? I've never owned a car so it's hard for me to know?)

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/110791855391524106

Ruth_Mottram, 8 months ago to Copenhagen

Trying to plan work trip to #Bergen for meeting and not for the first time, I'm left wondering why exactly the train connection between major Scandinavian cities is so awful ..?

#Copenhagen to #Oslo via #Göteborg requires a bus mostly. Where on earth is the #HighSpeedRail link?

#FlyingLess #InternationalRail #CrossBorderRail

Ruth_Mottram, 10 months ago to california

I learnt several things from this article, including that in #California, insurers are banned from using #ClimateModels to estimate risk because it would increase premiums too much 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

We need a new #ClimateScience # now. We understand the physics of #climate pretty well (with a few notable exceptions) it's #adaptation we need to work on.
How about #CliSciNewWave? Who's in? #ClimateDiary

🎁
Why people struggle to understand climate risk from The Economist
https://econ.st/3rtIMBz

Ruth_Mottram, 6 months ago to random

I gave in and joined bluesky. Just to see what it's like.

First impression, and perhaps a lesson for mastodon: There seem to be a lot of old #ClimateTwitter people there and unlike here, it was very easy to find them because I could simply scan other people's followers lists.

I guess that's what people mean when they say it's hard to find people on #ClimateMastodon ?

Regardless, not going to leave this place, I like it here and I like not supporting yet another VC-funded walled garden

Ruth_Mottram, 10 months ago to fediverse

Would love it if the #fediverse could recommend some good resources for tweens/teen on basic principles of #onlineSafety + personal #cybersecurity . Ideally something fun + not necessarily involving parents (who god knows that age group often don't listen to, or who may in worst case be actively abusive).
I'm thinking from basics like using password managers to how to organise cloud backups to what data #privacy + tracking actually means...
Ideally in English, could also be Danish
#fælleshjerne

Ruth_Mottram, 9 months ago to random

Ok. Now I'm utterly confused. 1minute after crossing the Danish border my 3G connection is faster than all the German 4G and quite a lot of the German 5G signal when on the web.

Is my provider deliberately slowing things down in our neighbour to the south?

#MobileNetwork #3G #4G #5G

Ruth_Mottram, 9 months ago to random

Huh. Did not know that hotels in Copenhagen have been using sea water to cool bedrooms instead of traditional electric air conditioning.
What a smart solution..

https://pro.ing.dk/gridtech/artikel/fjernkoeling-erstatter-i-stigende-grad-traditionel-aircondition-i-koebenhavn

Ruth_Mottram, 8 months ago to random

I suffer from chronic time optimism (tidsoptimist - a Danish expression)

I assume everything will take 1 or 2 hours. In fact, I used the 4 hour journey from Aalborg to CPH to compile some reports (financial and written), I was sure would not take more than an hour or so.
I've probably written more than necessary and it will probably form basis of a scientific publication, but it's no wonder I always feel a bit pressed.

Is this a common thing? How to handle it best?

Ruth_Mottram, 7 months ago to hamburg

Off to #Utrecht today for @PolarRES + #PolarCORDEX annual meetings. Looks like this #CrossBorderRail journey is going to be cosy... The platform for the #Hamburg train is packed, and unusually the train is an old #DeutscheBahn coach series rather than DSB...
Somewhere on here @Hansen_Nicolaj should also have a seat (I hope)

#TrainToPolarCORDEX

A train carriage in pale grey with a distinctive red stripe of DB livery next to a paved train platform with elaborate ceiling tracery just visible behind.

Ruth_Mottram, 5 months ago to firefox

Waiting at the hairdresser so time for one of my periodic #ClearTheTabs threads on random stuff I have open in my #Firefox...

First up a paper I think @DrEvanGowan shared on Palaeo #SeaLevels from Australia that appear to confirm the vulnerability of #Antarctica to loss under #ClimateChange 1/many

https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.adg3035

Ruth_Mottram, 4 months ago to random

Most of the specialised computers/servers at work are named for DWEMs* (or pagan gods/goddesses), so at casual lunch conversation yesterday we brainstormed a few #WomenInSTEM names for the next generation of servers (we came up with Meitner, Hammer + Lehman, maybe Curie is too obvious) - but why stick with white women, what other more diverse candidates should we have for naming servers etc after? Would love some more suggestions to take to IT.
#EDI #Diversity

*(Dead, White, European Males).

Ruth_Mottram, 5 months ago to random

Watched #BillyElliot for #FamilyFilmEvening. It's aged rather well, though possibly a little too nostalgic for the bad old days. Kids have gleefully learned a whole new stable of swearwords and how to use them. Youngest is now going round trying to talk in County Durham accent.
A bit of a relief from their endless Americanisms.

Would love some suggestions from the fediverse for other family films suitable for tweens/young teens with perhaps slightly challenging subjects...

Ruth_Mottram, 4 months ago to mastodon

I asked, #mastodon answered...

https://fediscience.org/
Ruth_Mottram - Ok mastodon, (or at least the part of it currently going through a big freeze), show me your strange ice pictures, your weird ice spikes, needle ice, hair ice and frazil ice, your beautiful ice crystals.

Is #icetodon a thing yet? It should be. I'll start.
#NeedleIce in the park today.. typically forms.when ground is warm (above zero) and air temperature cold (well below zero).

#Ice #BigFreeze #StrangeIce #IceSpikes

Ruth_Mottram, 5 months ago to random

I looked up a hardware problem with kid's laptop yesterday and AI-generated "content" is already grit in the gears of the online world. 🤨

https://mastodonbooks.net/@mutinyc/111451099936827522
@mutinyc - I think folks need to understand that within a number of years, AI-generated "content" will be the microplastic of our online ecosystem.

Ruth_Mottram, 2 months ago to random

"Climate models can’t explain 2023’s huge heat anomaly — we could be in uncharted territory
Taking into account all known factors, the planet warmed 0.2 °C more last year than climate scientists expected. More and better data are urgently needed."

Good piece in Nature this week by Gavin Schmidt covers the extremely anomalous temperatures in 2023, well before El Nino got started as well as the loss of #Antarctic #SeaIce and aerosols...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00816-z