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Strange voice in the early morning

It is strange how some noises can rouse you from a deep sleep to full alertness in a moment. This morning I heard one such noise, a strange voice at about 03:30, the odd thing about this one is that… Continue Reading →

Another climate science rap

I am (or should that be was) a climate scientist, it is just a shame I can’t sing, or I could have made a rap video like this… … the important point it makes is that climate scientists are cool… Continue Reading →

What’s the story with Nitrogen?

There is much talk these days about the threat to our world from climatic change driven by the release of fossil carbon in the form of CO2. However, this is not the only pollutant gas released by the burning of… Continue Reading →

Climate Change: breaking the barriers to a low-carbon Scotland

As this is Climate Week 2011, it is a good time to look at the barriers to a low-carbon Scotland and how they can be broken down. Fortunately the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) has just released a report into… Continue Reading →

Climate Week. 21-27 March 2011

This is Climate Week 2011:   While there are issues with some of the sponsors using the event as green wash, I feel we should take a positive approach and think about what we can do, to actually save the… Continue Reading →

Normal service resumed

Last weekend I spent an hour looking out of the window as part of the “Big Garden Bird Watch” and how many birds did I see in that hour? None, zero, nada! This is rather unusual, as there are normally… Continue Reading →

Are cyclists at greater risk from air pollution?

I was struck by an article on the BBC News website today, claiming that “Cyclists are ‘unaware of the risks from pollution’“. Two things stand out in that piece: 1) “hard evidence on the impact of air pollution on the… Continue Reading →

Are our streets for people?

Here is a great wee video from Living Streets. It asks the question “Are our streets for people?” and suggests how they could be in the future, if we decide to put the priority on active travel. The proposed changes… Continue Reading →

300 Years of fossil fuelled growth in 5 minutes

The ultimate roller coaster ride: a brief history of fossil fuels… A short film from the Post Carbon institute, it is time to start planning for the future.

BotSoc winter lecture programme

With winter on the way the Botanical Society of Scotland has published it’s winter lecture programme. These lectures cover a wide range of botanical subjects and are free for anyone to attend. So if you are interested in plants and… Continue Reading →

Great Grey Shrike in Edinburgh?

This morning, sitting at breakfast looking out at a dreich and misty Arthur’s Seat, I started scanning the trees nearby, just as something to do. Over the last few years we have seen a wide range of birds around this… Continue Reading →

New Edinburgh Wildlife Website

An Edinburgh lawyer, Anthony Robson, has started a new website listing wildlife sightings in Edinburgh. The web site came about because he had taken a load of wildlife photos over the last year or so, and couldn’t find an on-line… Continue Reading →

First bird to sing

I didn’t sleep well last night, no particular reason it just happens sometimes, one consequence of this was that I was awake when the first bird started to sing. At 03:27 a robin (Erithacus rubecula) started singing followed by another… Continue Reading →

New Bot Soc web site open for business

After what seems like an age toiling away at the HTML/PHP/CSS coal face, I think that the new Bot Soc web site should be declared open for business. Not that I did most of the work, the scripting was done… Continue Reading →

A storm in a tea cup over climatic change

Listening to the Today programme radio this morning I couldn’t understand how John Humphrys could decide that the Climatic Research Unit at UEA had some how mislead us all on the basis of a reports he hadn’t even read. What… Continue Reading →

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