He/Him // Director at Hoare Lea // Lighting Design // Passionate about light, our planet & making spaces people love // Opinions expressed are my own
London, UK
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UK’s richest people avoid social housing rules in £1.2bn London flats project theguardian.com/news/2022/oc…
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🚨EXCLUSIVE: Yvon Chouinard, who founded the outdoor apparel maker Patagonia and became a reluctant billionaire with his unconventional spin on capitalism, has given away the company. All Patagonia’s profits will now be used to fight climate change.🧵
nytimes.com/2022/09/14/clima…
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More that 59°C was measured on the soil surface in Spain 🇪🇸 and 48°C in the south on France 🇫🇷.
This is not « just summer ».
It is « just hell » and will pretty soon become « just the end of human life » if we continue with our climate inaction.
#heatwave
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Those promoting the idea of citizen science may want to take note, here’s the response you’re going to get from industry.
“Your kits [are] not calibrated, we disagree with the readings, take it up with the @EnvAgency”
Not just the Rib with off the scale phosphate levels and raw sewage dumping. The response from @thameswater to our secretary’s enquiry…..
“Your kits not calibrated, we disagree with the readings, take it up with the @EnvAgency”
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Next Tuesday (21st June) is #ShowYourStripes day!
We encourage people to use the warming stripes in creative ways to start conversations about climate change.
Download the graphics for any country: ShowYourStripes.info
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Burning 1 million barrels of oil raises the planet's temperature by about 0.2μK.
That may not sound much but we are burning ~100 million barrels of oil every day.
Burning oil produces around ⅓ of global CO₂ emissions.
Earth's temperature is increasing at around 0.02°C per year.
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“The rate of global warming has tripled in the past 20 years.”
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The current extreme #heatwave in #Pakistan and #India as seen today, on the fourth intense hot day, by #Copernicus #Sentinel3 LST (Land Surface Temperature, not Air!). LST collected on April 29 shows max value exceeding 62°C/143°F. Gaps due to cloud/snow/nodata. #ClimateEmergency
