Andrew Yool
@dryool.bsky.social
Novel reader, 🐱 lover, amateur 📸, gamer 🎮, slow 🚲, coattail-rider, rare blogger & ocean 🌊 biogeochemistry modeller (in that order). Views=own, RTs≠endorsement.
Environmental science
47%
Geology
23%
Union leaders resist political donations cap after Reform given £72m
General secretaries say union funding is ‘cleanest money in politics’ and different to that from wealthy individual donors
www.theguardian.com
I hate to say it, but UK union leaders, when faced with a choice that potentially threatens their influence, are pretty great at choosing the wrong answer. Even when - as here - they're good at spotting the serious threat to wider civic society that unlimited political donations presents.
Scrap windfall tax on oil and gas firms early, North Sea industry urges
Labour should replace levy in 2027 rather than 2030 as energy bills are poised to surge over the winter, says lobby group
www.theguardian.com
More accurately: Resource extraction business that pays no downstream externality costs and has no plan for future other than "continue extraction" urges govt to let it keep more profit behind fig leaf of "helping consumers" and continuance of "ignore socioeconomic / environmental costs" model
Nice - but they need it in a shareable one-PNG-to-rule-them-all format! 😂
Earth's orbital environment is a finite resource.
Our latest Space Environment Report shows the long-term impact of our activities in space worsened by an order of magnitude in just one year.
The time to tackle space debris is now.
Read more: www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
@operations.esa.int
Our latest Space Environment Report shows the long-term impact of our activities in space worsened by an order of magnitude in just one year.
The time to tackle space debris is now.
Read more: www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
@operations.esa.int
Another generation, another #Commons. We're now treating low-Earth orbit just like we've been treating the atmosphere for decades. Short-term gains for some create long-term problems for us all. Again. But, of course, doing anything else would be government red-tape, regulation, anti-freedom, ...
Reposted by Andrew Yool
Earth's orbital environment is a finite resource.
Our latest Space Environment Report shows the long-term impact of our activities in space worsened by an order of magnitude in just one year.
The time to tackle space debris is now.
Read more: www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
@operations.esa.int
Our latest Space Environment Report shows the long-term impact of our activities in space worsened by an order of magnitude in just one year.
The time to tackle space debris is now.
Read more: www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
@operations.esa.int
It reminded me to get hold of the similar, if more parochial, table of ocean 🌊 profiles of the elements ...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
(Although I can't find a more global ocean version of this - does one exist?)
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
(Although I can't find a more global ocean version of this - does one exist?)
APOD: 2026 September 14 – Where Your Elements Came From
A different astronomy and space science
related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
apod.nasa.gov
So, this is *fanastic*: a #PeriodicTable explaining the #Astrophysics processes responsible for the elements!
There are more artificial elements than I thought, although I don't think my high school table had the #Rutherfordium to #Oganesson row on it.
There are more artificial elements than I thought, although I don't think my high school table had the #Rutherfordium to #Oganesson row on it.