Fightback has started.
With the climate crises getting worse, floods, extreme weather, heat, storms all being linked to climate change and this in turn being linked to fossil fuels, the fight back has started.
Climate Earth have filed a case against the board of Shell as detailed below.
In February 2023, we filed a case against Shell’s Board of Directors for failing to move away from fossil fuels fast enough. This is the first ever case of its kind seeking to hold corporate directors personally liable.
In May 2023, the UK High Court dismissed the case, but has since granted us an oral hearing at which we will ask the Judge to reconsider.
You can read more here
We need action NOW, there is a lot of pessimism within the science community as to if we are actually going to reach our aims of reaching our target of avoiding a 1.5 degree global temperature rise See previous post here which links to an article in Nature.
Global temperatures are rising and this is the case even if you factor in events such as El-nino.
Hopefully the judge in will allow the court case to go ahead.
American football – Torbay Trojans vs Portsmouth Home
Next game is Sunday 28th May 2023. We are playing Portsmouth at home, kick off 14:00 at Foxhole field, Bellfield Road, Paignton.
Pitch marking will take place on Saturday 27th May.
Links
Fixtures
23rd April Wyverns vs Trojans 2pm Kick off
30th April Trojans vs Storm 2pm Kick off
21 May Dreadnoughts vs Trojans 2pm Kick off
28th May Trojans vs Dreadnoughts 2pm Kick off
4th June Trojans vs Monarchs
16th July Trojans vs Wyverns
30th July Storm vs Trojans
6th August Monarchs vs Trojans
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#Trojans,#Football,#Training,#TorbayTrojans,
#AlwaysTrojan,#Fixture,#PortsmouthDreadnoughts,#Dreadnoughts,
#Portsmouth
Saturn Moon count Jumps
This was posted to Fedi on 19th May. New Scientist report on the moons around Saturn thanks to new research in to the rings. We are now up to 140, which surpasses the moons around Jupiter.
Saturn’s Youthful Rings and Newfound Moons Put It in Stargazing Spotlight
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#Astronomy,#Science.#Saturn,#Rings,#Moons,#MoonCount
Write Free Software – Education resource
This was mentioned on the fediverse earlier. What looks like a new resource “A comprehensive educational resource for the Free Software movement”
This can be found here it is always good to see, fresh, new resources like this to add a new take on the issue of software freedom.
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#FreeSoftware,#Education,#Website,#Resource
What is Free Software ? Explained in 3 minutes
Really good video to explain what free software and the ideas behind the movement.
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#FreeSoftware,#FSFE,#Video,#Explanation,#DigitalFreedoms,#Use,Study,
#Share,#Improve
LibreOffice 7.6
I saw this on the LO fediverse account on 17th May, LibreOffice 7.6 is coming and is available now for Alpha testing
See here for announcement or here for download
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Other links
This video I made to illustrate how to install LO 7.4 on Debian may be useful so giving it a mention anyway.
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#LibreOffice,#Alpha,#Testing.#FreeSoftware
Code Club 20/5/2023 Write up
Today we carried on with with the Python activities that we started last week. Attendees are mostly undertaking the same path just different activities within that.
Useful Links
If you also sign up to the Raspberry Pi foundation, you can track progress and collect badges. This is optional, as this presents more ways for data to be collected.
This is one of the projects that we built today – Target Practice *
- NOTE : This video is of the project preview and not the final project, which looks the same.
We also looked at a Raspberry Pi Pico and had a quick look at how Chat GPT can be used to generate code. It did seem however that it produces example code from using the older gpio libraries, rather than the newer GPIO Zero library.
But it did produce the code required, regardless of library being used.
Something to look at next time, so the plan is to experiment more with this. This raspberry Pi also uses Micro Python
There is no Code Club on Saturday 3rd June, so the next event will be the STEM Group on 10th June.
#CodeClub
Climate Change
Report in nature, that Top climate scientists are sceptical that nations will rein in global warming. I think these warnings are really plausible, as we have seen much higher than average temperatures this winter, well above this 1.5 degree rise we are meant to be avoiding.
The fact so many scientists don't think we are going to even meet these targets is also worrying.
This was posted to the Fediverse I commented to make the point about higher than normal temperatures.
We are really in trouble and need to wake up.
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#Nature,#Science,#Climate,#Warning,
Scismic : Making a PostDoc Stand out for industry
This is the next Scismic Webinar
You gain additional technical skills and increased research independence during a postdoc. These can help you in non-academic employment, if you know how to pitch your experience. This workshop will help you identify the best qualifications you bring from your postdoc position to a new role, and how to effectively communicate these throughout the job search process.
Date and time
Wednesday, May 24 · 7 – 8pm BST
Tickets via eventbrite here
#Webinar,#Scismic,#PostDoc,#BioTech,#Science
Code Club 20/5/2023 reminder
The next Paignton Library code club is on Saturday 20th May 2023 10 am to 12:00. We will carry on with with the Python activities, unless you are following the Scratch or other projects.
The next project in Python is Rocket launch which I had a go at during Saturdays STEM Group meeting. To find the projects, please follow code club link and click projects.
Useful Links
If you also sign up to the Raspberry Pi foundation, you can track progress and collect badges. This is optional, as this presents more ways for data to be collected.
As before if you would like to save work, please sign up for a scratch or Trinket account so you can save project progress and carry on at home or at the next session.
Due to it being the Airshow, the next Code Club won't take place until 17th June, but the STEM Group will run as normal on the 10th June.