Dr Kirsty Breaks-Holdsworth 💙
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Outdoors, walk, run, cycle, fun. My views are my own.
Leeds, England
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Dr Kirsty Breaks-Holdsworth 💙 Retweeted
You can do your bit to help save water - with a drought being declared in Yorkshire this is urgent!
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Dr Kirsty Breaks-Holdsworth 💙 Retweeted
It's not stained glass. It's a dragonfly's wing close-up.
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Working through that whole meds aren’t working on legs yet but the tablets are making me feel really sick. Gets pretty wearing waking up feeling like crap every day 😔
#feelingsorryformyself
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Dr Kirsty Breaks-Holdsworth 💙 Retweeted
1/ Ok here’s the detail of our hydrological assessment that led to the changes in Drought Status today. Firstly a map showing the 8 areas now formally in drought. Now a hydrological 🧵….
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Dr Kirsty Breaks-Holdsworth 💙 Retweeted
🚫Don’t be tempted to cool off in ponds, lakes or other bodies of water during the heatwave this week. Water that looks inviting on the surface might have hidden dangers underneath. The only safe place to take a dip is at places specifically designed for swimming 🚫
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Totally irresponsible
‘No evidence’ to support claim we’re in climate emergency, Lord Frost claims
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Clear example of how this works & definitely a concern 😞
Dry ground takes more time to soak up water following a
#heatwave
than if it were during a normal summer.
This experiment shows how heavy rainfall following an extended period of extreme heat could lead to flooding.
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Dr Kirsty Breaks-Holdsworth 💙 Retweeted
Yorkshire, it’s time to put the hosepipes down for a bit.
From 26th August we’re asking everyone to pop away the hosepipes so we can help get our reservoirs back to normal.
Thank you for helping for using water wisely. 💙
Find out more:
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Dr Kirsty Breaks-Holdsworth 💙 Retweeted
When our environmental predicament is so vast and so obvious, why are so few eminent and powerful people prepared to confront it, or even seriously to discuss it?
Here’s a thread that seeks to explain the Great Silence.
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The country is like a rudderless sinking ship where those of sound mind left long ago on any available lifeboats & we’re left with nonsensical rambling & fantasy. It is utterly depressing 😔
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Dr Kirsty Breaks-Holdsworth 💙 Retweeted
With the loss of a number of the UK's swimmimng pools making the news today, a good time to remember some of the the lost lidos of the Yorkshire coast the South and North Bay pools at Scarborough with the ones at Whitby and Withensea.
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Dr Kirsty Breaks-Holdsworth 💙 Retweeted
Squirrel trying to scare off a bird..
Sound on..
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