It's a while since I've had one of these, and not in response to anything specific - I've been very inactive on #WesternSahara lately. Must be a quiet day on a troll farm somewhere in #Morocco. Anyway, I have a rule that whenever I'm trolled by agents of the #Moroccan state, I post photos of the Sahrawi controlled areas of #WesternSahara, to highlight the conflict & #Morocco's partition of this non-self-governing territory. Here's the view from Tin Gfuf, Southern Sector

Some thoughts that I presented at this conference on 'measuring' heritage loss & damage.

1. Use IPCC risk framework to characterise risk to different aspects of heritage (tangible & intangible). Can be quantitative or qualitative, data or experience driven.

https://twitter.com/CarbonBrief/status/1643541687413735426

2. Make sure #heritage is considered in national risk assessments & adaptation plans. Not just $ value, but inventories of tangible & intangible heritage @ risk, & registers for degrees of risk.

I don't disagree with anything these scientists are saying (and I've worked with four of them in varying capacities). But none are endorsing the 6-8 years. Also, the concept of 'civilisation' and ideas about its collapse are thrown around very loosely here. A thread 1/

https://twitter.com/TTTMediaXR/status/1490829146100203521

First, I'm going to say that I fully expect climate change to be associated with a fair amount of civilisational collapse. But what does that actually mean? None of my respected colleagues here are specialists in this area. But others are, and I've at done some work on it. 2/

We have x yrs left until until n% chance (based on certain assumptions) of breaching (uncertain) carbon budget for scientifically-informed but to-an-extent arbitrary 1.5°C warming threshold, after which action is still critical to prevent much greater warming. Just pinning this here as a translation service in the context of the discussion about 'we have X yrs until climate breakdown/catastrophe / Earth becomes uninhabitable / all oceans on fire / etc.'

As it's announced #Morocco will normalise relations with #Israel in exchange for US recognition of the former's claim to the disputed non-self-governing territory of #WesternSahara, I will point out that Morocco controls only ~3/4 of this territory. Some pics from the other 1/4. Morocco entered #WesternSahara by force in 1975. The indigenous Sahrawi fought them until 1991, when the UK brokered a ceasefire based on the promise of a referendum on self-determination. This has never taken place.

Today's #WesternSahara photo. There may be more. Fossil sand ripples, Wadi Erni, Northern Sector. Enigmatic rock engravings, Wadi Erni. Similar to some I've been looking at today from the Canary Islands, but then, we know there was a link. I like to think the one of the right is a comet. But that's based on nothing except my fevered imagination.

The application to the economic and social spheres of ideas that blend evolutionary theory with ideas of progress is the heart of the free-market ideology that has been promoted by right-wing think tanks for some 60 years. No surprise that they find a welcome in this government. Of course, these ideas are deeply dodgy. While evolution involves adaptation to variable environmental pressures that have have nothing to do with morality, free-market evolutionism replaces this with the idea of evolution as decontextualised continuous improvement.