Secondary Geography Teacher 👩🏼🏫 @RGS_IBG Scholar 19-20 🌍 / Alumni of @univofstandrews @_SMRU_ 🐋 and @LivUni 🌊 / Explorer🗺, scuba diver🤿, SUP🏄🏼♀️
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Lucy Houghton retweeted
I was just asked if I was “ready for Christmas”.
It is the 23rd of November. I’m not even ready for this afternoon.
Job advert for #geographyteacher in Milton Keynes for anyone interested! Large secondary school with post-16 college. Loads of great facilities inc interactive boards in every classroom, fully resourced curriculum with amazing HoD & unlimited tea/coffee!
mynewterm.com/jobs/136842/ED…
Lucy Houghton retweeted
This @UK_CEH graphic for 31st October shows why a large swathe of Great Britain is prone to flooding at the moment.
Soils over many areas are very wet (blue) and are unable to soak up much water.
This means that even modest amounts of rainfall can potentially cause problems.
My thoughts go out to any other teachers who are in a similar position 🤧🦠
I’m on day 4 on flu symptoms with no signs of it getting better yet, being ill in half term truly sucks 😭
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Lucy Houghton retweeted
Right now, here’s the way to think about this.
You’re a kid in school and another kid with a legitimate grievance against your grandparents (that wasn’t your fault or his) is coming at you to beat you up. You manage to subdue him—you’re sitting on top of him now, your hands pinning his wrists to the ground. “Let me go!” he says. “I don’t want to fight,” you say. “If I let you go, do you promise not to hit me?” But he’s silent. If you let him go, he punches you out. But if you don’t let him go, you’re a bully forcing yourself on this younger, poorer kid. It’s hopelessly deadlocked.
Lucy Houghton retweeted
A really good question from a great headteacher I know. If a member of staff used the same language as the Home secretary used yesterday, would they be failing in their safeguarding duties if they didn't flag this up with Prevent as a person who has potentially been radicalised?
Lucy Houghton retweeted
And, given the #ClimateEmergency roads are not what we need.
Rail electrification will help.
Investment in agriculture and industry closer to cities.
Making use of brownfield sites.
Retrofit homes.
Lucy Houghton retweeted
Does feel sort of mad that a Prime Minister who wasn't even a full ranking cabinet minister at the time of the 2019 election & is 20 points behind in the polls just gets to cancel the country's largest infrastructure project, which his party's manifesto committed to completing
Lucy Houghton retweeted
Actually, in the real world it is poverty.
Lucy Houghton retweeted
After a summer of wildfire and floods, and records broken here in the UK, yesterday's announcement is barely fathomable. Future generations will ask why, after these stark signs, the government would put this country’s global leadership on climate change into reverse.
Fairness should absolutely be central to any change, but it is not fair that our children will have their future blighted by the poor decisions made today. It isn't fair that businesses that have invested heavily in pioneering green technologies and the jobs of tomorrow will have to put their plans on ice, nor that changes in policy endanger our much-loved cultural heritage and natural environment, undermining everything from food security to our health and wellbeing. And it isn't fair that the poorest in our society will lose out most in the future.
Progress towards Net Zero must be sustained, not kicked down the road for political expediency.
We urge the Prime Minister and his Government to rethink.
ALT A view across burnt land near Little Sea at Studland Bay, Dorset
Lucy Houghton retweeted
If you’re going back tomorrow and feeling anxious, I’ll offer the same advice that I give every year.
Try and remember that nobody else knows what they’re doing either.
Lucy Houghton retweeted
Treating #beef like #coal 🪨 would make a big dent in greenhouse-gas emissions
Cattle are a surprisingly large producer of greenhouse gases - time to stop eating beef
34% of global greenhouse gases i from food production
#climatechange #vegetarian
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Lucy Houghton retweeted
Every year, I watch twitter fill up with laminated resources. As soon as you add plastic to paper, that resource will be round for thousands of years. Is that a legacy you want to leave? Is that the sustainability you wish to model to your pupils? Limit your laminating!
Lucy Houghton retweeted
🌡️Heat+💧water+💩fertilizer➡️🌿crops➡️🧑🤝🧑ppl
I go into a lot more detail in the article below:
unchartedterritories.tomaspu…
Lucy Houghton retweeted
If you are an educator and are teaching about the impacts of climate change, like this terrible coral bleaching event, the new National Geographic MapMaker has live data from @CoralReefWatch to assist you and help your students understand the impacts arcg.is/1Xb9uj0
Many of Florida's #CoralReefs have been hit with severe bleaching and significant mortality due to extremely warm ocean temperatures, and @NOAA's @CoralReefWatch has been tracking the threat.
In this Bleaching Alert animation, you can see how the threat has grown over the last two weeks.
More: bit.ly/3rsJ1wM
Lucy Houghton retweeted
Eating less meat is 'like taking eight million cars off road', new study suggests bbc.in/44KCps8
Lucy Houghton retweeted
A massive landslide on the Jurassic Coast east of Seatown Beach took place overnight!
It's the same location as the one in April 2021, which was described as 4,000 tonnes and the biggest landslide in the area for 60 years. This definitely breaks that record.
#rockfall #dorset – at South West, England
Lucy Houghton retweeted
The temperature in China hit 52.2°C (126 °F) Sunday 16th July 2023
That beats the old record by an almost inconceivable 1.7°C
Extreme heat all around the World - when will politicians wake up to #ClimateChange
Stop denying it is happening - as it just makes you look crazy.
