Bec Jones

@jbfarthing.bsky.social

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Seabird ecologist and conservationist. Biophile worried about climate change and biodiversity loss. Migrant. Views my own.

Picture of a headline from The Telegraph for an opinion piece by Allister Heath, which says “We’ve lost the war against climate change. Time to scrap net zero”. “Net Zero” is a term used to describe the aim of ensuring we do not cause more greenhouse gas emissions than we can remove from the atmosphere, with the aim of limiting future climate change. The term has become widely politicised, particularly by those with vested interests in the fossil fuel industries. Without significant action to reduce emissions, scientific predictions of future climate change impacts range from the scary to the apocalyptic (see https://www.ipcc.ch/). Many people are sadly uninformed or misinformed about these predictions and the science behind them. Others deliberately propagate misinformation for their own personal and political interests.
Insects in the evening sunlight above wildflower meadows
Cartoon of a dog smiling and saying “this is fine” while the house around him burns. A meme commonly used to represent complacency and inaction around climate change.
An area of grass cut ridiculously short in the name of tidiness, baked dry and brown by the heatwave. If it had been left long, it would have retained water and stayed green as well as providing food and habitat for our declining insect populations. Not cutting it so short so regularly would also save money and emissions. Missed opportunity.
Two female Large Rose Sawflies (Arge pagana) sawing a rose stem to lay their eggs. They saw, but they not flies (Sawflies are Hymenopterans)
Two Dark-edged Bee Flies (Bombylius major) basking on a fence.
Photo of the sea at Filey Bay: a mixture of foggy and sparkly this morning