Lara Williams

@lararhiannon.bsky.social

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I write about climate change for @opinion.bsky.social and pursue the outdoors

UK maternal mortality rate, three-year rolling average Maternal Death Rates Are Rising in the UK line chart comes down from 2004 until 2013 and then starts steeply rising again in 2018
math lady meme: woman looks confused at math diagrams and equations
Illustration with imported, domestic, outdoor and fake flower options under the subheading "pick a bouquet." Outdoor is picked and it says: Using exclusively 15 outdoor grown stems from a flower farm local to your wedding is not only a way to support small business but produces just 1.71kg CO2e. You may also get more of a choice of delicate flowers, such as sweet peas, which are hard to transport over longer distances. However, you’ll have to be flexible about flower choice.
Line chart of Expected electricity prices for the second quarter of the year (€/MWh) showing Spain, Germany, Italy, France. Spain and France are far lower than the others.
shocked pikachu face
the us lags the world in cleantech. bar and line chart showing annual energy transition investments. us is in blue bars, slowly rising to about 250 billion dollars in 2025. rest of world, china and the EU/UK are in lines, rising much faster and higher than the US. China is the highest, dropping slightly to 700 billion dollars in 2025.
On 27 May 2017, Goodwin predicted that the Labour Party would not reach 38 per cent of the vote in the 2017 United Kingdom general election and said he would eat his book if they did.[62] As the party won 40.0% of the popular vote, Goodwin chewed one page out of his book, live on Sky News, on 10 June 2017.
stacked bar charts showing percentage of households by age and occupancy rating. Households where all residents are aged 65 and over are far more likely to live in under-occupied homes.
percentage point change in selected daily activities between 2019 and 2024 -- chatting down 12.2%, playing down 20.2%, reading down 15.6%, singing down 20.9% and painting/drawing down 15.8%
PISA mean reading scores for denmark, oecd average, norway, germany, france, uk. all have seen recent declines
bar chart showing amount of microplastics found in human organs (brain, liver, kidney) in 2016 and 2024. Liver and brain levels have increased a lot, with the brain having by far the most -- 4.9 micrograms per gram of tissue in 2024.
screenshot of spotify daylist described as english folk traditional thursday afternoon, consisting of irish bangers from Lankum, Lisa O'Neill, OXN and John Francis Flynn
bar chart showing total uk spring sunshine hours using data from the met office national climate information centre. data is variable with a sharp dramatic increase from 2024 to 2025 -- which is the tallest bar
screenshot of CCC's progress report. For the required emissions savings to achieve the 2030 NDC: • Credible plans exist for 38%. This mostly covers emissions savings from the projected roll-out of renewable electricity generation and EVs, as well as some progress in decarbonising the iron and steel sector in industry. • Some risks are attached to 23%. These are predominantly delivery risks for planning, grid connections, and successful Contracts for Difference auctions to deliver the rest of the renewables deployment required by 2030 under the Clean Power 2030 Action Plan. There are also some risks around the ability of the Clean Heat Market Mechanism to deliver the required roll-out of heat pumps. • Significant risks are attached to 20%. This is predominantly for policies to drive industrial electrification and the uptake of CCS in industry, improvement to efficiencies of petrol, diesel, and hybrid vehicles, the decarbonisation of public sector buildings, and plans for peatland restoration and tree planting. • Insufficient plans exist for 14%. The key area this applies to is the roll-out of heat pumps, where existing programmes and funding cover only a portion of the required market scaleup. There are also insufficient plans for a proportion of the engineered removals required in the Government’s plans. There is a gap of 4% between the quantified plans in the CBDP and the 2030 NDC. Two parts are highlighted: credible plans exist for 38% and there are also insufficient plans for a proportion of the engineered removals required in the Government's plans.
Simpsons meme; bus driver in first frame says don't make me tap the sign. in the next frame he's tapping the sign which says "a US brain drain doesn't benefit anyone"
subaru 360 kei car
woman stands next to a series of tiny white people carriers
Scatterplot showing the earliest opening date of the harvest in the Champagne region each year. Dates range from mid-October to mid-August, getting steadily earlier. A trend line shows the trend getting earlier.
area chart showing meat consumption per person per week since 1974. It's steadily declined
pie chart showing tons of carbon removal purchased by company. About 60% is Microsoft, followed by frontier, google and airbus. the remaining 27% is labelled "other".
bar chart showing quantity of oil spilled from tankers in metric tons, since the 1970s. Oil spills have gone down.
stacked area chart showing engineered carbon removal growing from nothing in 2023 to more than 30 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2050. Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage makes up the most capacity, followed by direct air capture, then enhanced weathering and biochar
Most People in the UK Are Worried About Climate Change bar chart showing survey results to the question how worried are you about climate change. 80% said they were very worried or somewhat worried.
Europe’s Aviation Sector May Be Burning the Same Amount of Fossil Fuel in 2049 as in 2023 Fuel burnt, in million metric tons of oil equivalent. Fossil kerosene, biofuels and e-kerosene. Biofuels and e-kerosene absorb most of the growth in fuel demand by 2049, but fossil fuel use goes down very slowly after peaking in 2034
Installation Numbers Have Dropped As Low-Hanging Fruit Picked Off. Bar chart showing number of domestic and non-domestic smart meters installed per year. The bars peak in 2018 at 5.1 million before slowly coming down. The last full year, 2023, saw just 3.5 million meters installed
Jasmin Paris sits exhausted, eyes closed, by the yellow gate/finish line of the Barkley Marathons
. Exposure controls Engineering measures: Ensure there is sufficient ventilation of the area. Respiratory protection: Respiratory protective device with particle filter. Hand protection: Protective gloves. Eye protection: Safety glasses. Ensure eye bath is to hand. Skin protection: Protective clothing. Environmental: Prevent from entering in public sewers or the immediate environment.
four by four Grid matrix showing warning impacts. Y axis is unlikely to very likely; x-axis is very low impact to high impact. Red is the top right square (very likely and high impact).
2024 winner card for press 30 under 30 awards
Line chart showing path to end deforestation by 2030 and deforestation levels globally 2015-2023. There is a big gap between 2023 and the target path
Doubt in Climate Scientists’ Understanding Has Increased. Stacked bar chart showing percentage of Americans who say climate scientists understand the best ways to address climate change in 2016, 2021 and 2023. More people believe climate scientists don't understand the best ways to address climate change in 2023.
bar chart showing quarterly notifications to the EU Alert and Cooperation Network related to olive oil. Alerts reached a record high at the start of the year
bar chart showing metered dose inhalers vs dry powder inhalers carbon footprint per inhale. metered dose are at least 10x more polluting
stacked bar chart compared existing projects, pipeline projects with a committed CfD with Labour's 55GW offshore wind target. There's a big shortfall
Donations and funding received by political parties in the first three weeks of the campaign, dating between May 30 and June 19. Donations over £11,180 must be reported. Labour has the most with a total of £9.3 million, while green party received just £40 thousand in donations.
map of the arctic with the locations of INTERACT research stations marked. the ones in Russia, covering nearly half the area, are paused.
surprised pikachu meme
i am sat on a wooden sculpture of a troll, in the troll hands and the words the world is in our hands is on the wall behind