2025-08-08

Briefly...

PXL_20250730_113508065 In the ever-decreasing intervals between me having to be elsewhere, I find time to write a few words.

First, if you've wondered where I've been, the answer has been France, and to a lesser extent Italy; see pix here if you really want to. Here's the summary page I wrote, though you may fail to read it.  Would suit fans of cathedrals or mountains mostly. My featured image is in the cloisters of St Jean Baptiste, in St Jean de Maurienne1.

Available Strava traces include the Col du Galibier from the north, very slowly; and the Gran Paradisio from the Emma Vittorio II hut, a lovely climb.

But what of the new DOE Climate report, I hear you cry? Well, ATTP has written a more sensible and well considered version of what I might have written, had I had time to read the thing. I did write The East is Red in 2017; do I need to change anything? I guess the question is what will come of it; I'd be more immeadiately worried about various other Trumpian madnesses, like cancelling a pile of mRNA research.

I leave you with me sleeping by the Loire by moonlight.

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* Phil was kind enough to link to the DOE report.

Notes


1. And not in Chalon-sur-Saone.