I watch too many Downfall parodies.

Serendipity? @quasibooks.bsky.social · 3h

As probably only 10 -15% of the world’s population is really on anything resembling a Net Zero path there is probably little hope. Time to party as in Fuhrerbunker!!

As probably only 10 -15% of the world’s population is really on anything resembling a Net Zero path there is probably little hope. Time to party as in Fuhrerbunker!!

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 3h

Supersized heat storms are now swarming the planet, upending life. #climatecrisis

www.reuters.com

The Age of Heat Storms

Trump -19?

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 3h

Brent Crude is now above $110 a barrel and rising.

Russia is killing numbers that are below a threshold that might elicit a response from China. What that threshold could be is an open question. A second question would be what level will the US continue to ignore.

Serendipity? @quasibooks.bsky.social · 5h

Russia can grind on unless there is a favourable coup, which appears unlikely. Because Ukraine has limited target options in Russia but Russia recognises no constraints, there must come a point where the Donbas etc has to be weighed against 80% of the Ukrainian population.

Russia can grind on unless there is a favourable coup, which appears unlikely. Because Ukraine has limited target options in Russia but Russia recognises no constraints, there must come a point where the Donbas etc has to be weighed against 80% of the Ukrainian population.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 5h

Zelenskyy must have the patience of a saint to go through the charade of sitting down with the world’s comedy negotiating duo, Dim Philby and the International Vampire.

www.bbc.co.uk

Zelensky prepares for Oslo talks with US envoys as Rubio denies withholding intelligence

Whilst I might have some sympathy for some aspects of the Tory Covid response, this was indefensible.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 6h

Four years today since Liz Truss announced her resignation as Prime Minister after wrecking the UK economy in a matter of days.

While rightly ministers take the blame, the real question is are the civil servants who both advised and acted really responsible and still in place i.e. how much better would a different administration have actually performed. It’s the mechanism that needs addressing.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 6h

Another failure in the Conservative government’s Covid response.

www.theguardian.com

UK government failures led to Covid spreading ‘like wildfire’ in care homes, inquiry finds

All about oil just like the original SNP. The SNP then got a new gripe - Brexit, but where will Alberta be able to pivot

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 9h

The proto-Americans in Canada’s Alberta look like they’ve been crushed in their independence campaign, according to very early results. Counting is ongoing but Prime Minister Mark Carney is confident enough to issue a victory statement.