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With CO2 at over 429 ppm, it's getting to be too late - that is higher than during the Mid-Piacenzian Warm Period of the Pliocene. If it wasn't for the sulphate & particulate aerosols, global warming would be far worse than it is now, as Hansen et al, have pointed out.

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We've been busy confirming the next saltmarsh restoration planting dates today.
If you are in Fife, near Tayport or St Andrews and like getting muddy while restoring habitat, reducing coastal erosion and creating a carbon store, we have a day out (or more) for you.
Dates and how to sign up to volunteer on our webpage:
greenshores.wp.st-andrews.ac.u…
Please share.
#Fife #Saltmarsh #Muddy #NatureRestorationFund #NatureScot

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Beavers, birds, and biodiversity—sometimes, nature really does know best. And our love for the natural world can be a powerful driver of climate action.

🌿 Good news: In the Czech Republic, a government dam project stalled for years… until a colony of beavers built a network of dams in the exact same spot. As one expert put it: “Beavers do it for free—one thousand times better than people.”

🐸 Not-so-good news: Amphibians are in hot water—literally. A new study shows that if temperatures rise 4°C, nearly 1 in 13 amphibian species could face extinction.

🐦 What you can do: Get outside and go birding! It’s a simple, joyful way to deepen your connection to the natural world. Paying attention to nature starts right in our own backyards.

Read more: talkingclimate.ca/p/critters-t…

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Saltmarsh planting day at the reservoir today- we do warn people that they will get muddy, no one seemed to mind, though some get muddier than others.
#saltmarsh #NatureScot #NatureRestorationFund #mud

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More saltmarsh harvesting today for our work with the University of St Andrews Transition group. Tomorrow we’ll be planting up the reservoir we started restoration planting last year.
Sunny, muddy fun.
#SaltmarshRestoration #NatureScot #NatureRestorationFund

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in reply to Dr. Katharine Hayhoe

In a minivan parked at a two-story home in the wealthy enclave of Piedmont, California, researchers watch as their instruments display rapid increases inside the home in carbon monoxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and nitrogen dioxide pollutant levels spike as soon as the stove is switched on.
ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/…
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@GreenFire
I was glad to see the paragraph starting with the words "Regardless of heat source" in that article. When I put chops under our electric grill, the concentration of particulates in the kitchen air goes right off the scale, even at the other end of the room. Just as the article says, switching to electricity for cooking (healthier though it is) does not remove the need to ventilate the kitchen.

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A seascape from Dornoch Firth. It was taken at the end of a field day, as the tide was returning and the sun was setting. Such a beautiful place to work.
#MeerMittwoch #DornochFirth #NatureScot #NatureRestorationFund

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More planting last week and a total of 800 polytunnel grown plants (these were from stock from the Eden estuary) planted over the two days.
Very happy to have had help from the regular polytunnel volunteers and the BioSoc society to get these plants into the Eden estuary, to help restore the saltmarsh, protect the coast, increase biodiversity and help store carbon.
#NatureScot #NatureRestorationFund #Satlmarsh #volunteers #plants

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Also delighted to have space in the polytunnel again, for more plant propagation!


Florida


My brother-in-law took this photo in Florida. Nothing special about it, you’re thinking? Zoom in to the right of the base of the tree.


Claude Malhuret, Senator of the French Republic, speaks the truth about what is happening in the US


(With English subtitles)

This is excellent.



Rothamsted Research's Long-Term Experiments


I made a video of a talk given by a scientist from Rothamsted Research.


The Rothamsted Long-Term Experiments: From 19th Century Trials to 21st Century Science


The Rothamsted Long-Term Experiments, established by Lawes and Gilbert, are world-renowned and are as important to scientists now as they ever have been. Join Andy Gregory as he takes you on a 180-year journey of discovery, from fertilisers to fungi, from manures to microplastics, and from superphosphate to soil health.



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And we are off! First planting session for the year, 520 plant plugs in today, & another group are coming to plant tomorrow.
Saltmarsh restoration on the Eden Estuary today.
#saltmarsh #NatureScot #NatureRestorationFund

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in reply to Dr. Katharine Hayhoe

Reforestation as a panacea for big city problems was already pointed out by our professor of water management in the mid 1990s.

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Eden estuary saltmarsh, aster seed heads late last year when we took a group of University of St Andrews students to see one of the Green Shores saltmarsh restoration sites
#MarshMadness #SaltMarsh #NatureRestorationFund

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The polytunnel volunteers have been working hard, we’re nearly out of space in the tunnel.
Fortunately we’ll be starting this year’s saltmarsh restoration planting next week, getting the plants out of the tunnel and into the estuary. Making more space for more propagation.
#saltmarsh #NatureRestorationFund #NatureScot

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Eating gels


Hi !cycling group,
I have a box of Clif Athlete Series Bloks Energy Chews. The "Recommendations for use" on the box say "Eat 3 to 6 pieces every hour during activity." There are 6 pieces in each wrapper. Eating 1 piece every 10 to 20 minutes seems like a lot to me. Are they just trying to get me to buy more of the product? Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Dirk
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graham obree says the gels are a rip off and just eats blocks of marzipan because they don't crumb

thebikeshow.net/the-obree-way/