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A chart showing how early action on reducing emissions would have involved a smoother transition to meet our target of limiting global warming to 1.5°C and showing that delay has made more radical measures necessary if we are still to hit that target. Unfortunately, this chart is 7 years old, we still have not taken sufficient action and we have as a result already blown through the 1.5°C target.
The G7 leaders greet each other in advance of a group photo. They are all talking amongst themselves, except Trump who stands in the foreground, looking like a discarded sofa on a busy New York City sidewalk.
When I write, as I often do, about the fund managers who are unnerved about all this, I get grumpy emails from men in Florida with Hotmail addresses telling me I’m an idiot. I hope the act of correspondence makes them feel better. But it is a fact that investors are jumpy about this dynamic and unsure how to navigate a safe route through it.
BBC Test Card F - central image on the card shows Carole Hersee playing noughts and crosses with a clown doll, Bubbles the Clown, surrounded by various greyscales and colour test signals used to assess the quality of the transmitted picture.
One person familiar with the talks noted that if the European companies pulled out, US operators were the most likely to take over the concessions, an outcome that would be worse for Beijing.
He says Britain’s lack of dynamism can be attributed to the “marzipan layer”: the upper middle classes who are happy with the status quo and reluctant to push innovation. A marzipan layer? I wonder if, in this analogy, Farage is the icing or the fruitcake.
1937 photo. Original caption is: “Washington Street, east side, north from Perry (right) to W 11th Streets, showing a demolition at the N.E. corner of Perry Street that will provide a site for a 1-story garage. The four story houses adjoining the clearance on the left will be included in this project. Appearing on the right are Nos. 143 and 141 Perry Street. They will remain.” August 3, 1937. Photo: P.L. Sperr
Screenshot of post from Governor Newsom Press Office on X. Gavin Newsom shaking hands with FIFA President, Gianni Infantino under heading: Newsom awarded inaugural Kohl’s Peace Prize. Prize comes with $50 Kohl’s Cash. A Kohl’s storefront is photoshopped in the background. GNPO quote tweets the image WOW! AN HONOR! - GCN
Hundreds of generals seated in an auditorium in Quantico, VA. They have been hauled away from their stations around the globe to listen to a weekend TV host tell them the military now hates gays and fat people. Two officers talking to each other have been circled in the image. Meme text overlay: THIS COULD’VE BEEN AN EMAIL.
Cover of the The Spectator World with the headline Trump’s Drug War and an artist’s rendering of a portly Trump standing on the back of a truck surrounded by masked men in Nazi uniforms. In the lower right corner is a teaser for a Ghislaine Maxwell article.
London violent crime statistics heatmap July 2024 - June 2025 ( source: https://www.plumplot.co.uk/London-violent-crime-statistics.html )