"What sparked Carney’s intervention was not Sudan, Venezuela or Gaza. It was the US threat to Canada/Greenland.
A western prime minister took umbrage only when the US threatened to treat the prosperous West in the same way it has long treated the Global South."
www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/carn...
MAGA!
Rye loaf baking - this is what you do on Bluesky, right?
Come to this if you're in London on 5 November. A talk on the Gaza genocide and its broader contexts by one of the leading authorities on the Middle East (and my former PhD supervisor) @gilbert-achcar.bsky.social. It will be well worth your time.
www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
Sinister argument-shopping considerations behind denial of @declassifieduk.org of a parliamentary press pass. Worrying.
Join me in telling Westminster that you also care about freedom of the press in the UK. I've just signed my name. secure.declassifieduk.org/page/178447/...
Today, we’re welcoming the very first cohort of students joining our MPhil in Global Risk and Resilience!
Why is SAI framed as the solution to the air pollution-cooling dilemma?
A student of ours modelled and found that temperature anomalies resulting from a reduction of China and India’s AQSLCFs under SSP3-7.0 might be negated by a 0.05% reduction in global carbon emissions!
Is SRM more realistic?
I never really started, but mainly force of habit. Must blue better.
CSER is looking for a part-time Research Assistant to work closely with Centre Director Prof S. M. Amadae (@amadae.bsky.social)
Deadline: 6 July 2025
Find out more and apply below ⬇️
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51403/
Direct Air Capture (DAC) without the hot air?
Interesting calculations on the mind-boggling scales involved if plans to mechanically capture and store CO2 from the atmosphere for global climate abatement are taken seriously.
By @cer54.bsky.social
mlg.eng.cam.ac.uk/carl/climate...
Awesome...
Apparently this was 'intelligence-led':
"30 Metropolitan police officers, some armed with stun guns, smashed down the door of the Grade II-listed building and arrested the young women inside."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
4 people having a lovely time discussing Inter Barca @barryglendenning.bsky.social , Mark Langdon and Jonathan Fadugba @footballweekly.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/football/aud...
Still only roughly one sixth of Exxon's total investment expenditure, and conditional on Biden money and tax-breaks continuing.
At least 5/6ths, probably more, to be spent on high-carbon fossil processes - forwards to 2030!
And how low is 'low carbon', really?
Just read it. @georgemonbiot.bsky.social is right. What more can I add? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It never ends. She’s dead, along with her entire family. #FreePalestine The Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassona, killed along with ten family members in an Israeli air strike on her home in northern Gaza, is the star of a doc…
Fascinating article 👇 #HistIR academic.oup.com/dh/advance-a...
"Forsvarsanskaffelser er en god kandidat til å toppe den uhellige kåringen av det temaet som er av størst samfunnsmessig viktighet og har den høyeste økonomisk kostnad – men som er gjenstand for minst kvalifisert analyse og debatt." @bergtora.bsky.social
statogstyring.no/en-samfunnsv...
I used to admire The Economist for being well reasoned even if I disagreed.
The Economist's racist, deceitful spiel on Gaza taken apart www.owenjones.news/p/the-econom...
Fascinating paper by Jenny Andersson and E. Rindzeviciute on the "co-production of technoscience and political governance that was explicated in the work of IIASA", and a resulting "redefinition of the world and reshaping of the political role of technoscience"
sciencespo.hal.science/hal-01361235/
The idea of an 'energy transition' falsely projects a history of technological change onto the cumulative history of energy/materials. - Fascinating insight.
The "Energy Transition" is a Pipe Dream | Jean-Baptiste Fressoz www.planetcritical.com/p/jean-bapti...
Fascinating read: science, start-ups, security state, solar radiation modification and secrecy - all in one ill boding story.
undark.org/2025/03/17/s...
"like all techne - the extraordinary sophistication of these
technologies coexists, cooperates in an essential way with sophistry, psycho-rhetoric, and the most cursory, the most archaic, the most crudely opinionated psychagogy, the most
vulgar psychology" - Derrida on nukes and nuke-speak.
Velskrevet og oplysende essay af historiker Niels Brimnes om dansk slaveri. Argumenter og oplysninger fremfor holdninger i præcis fremstilling af afgørende karakteristika ved forskellige typer af slaveri - illustreret ved eksempler fra Caribien, Osmannerriget, Nord- og Vestafrika.
shorturl.at/rbl5T
'Carbon removal is the next big fossil fuel boom, oil company says' www.theverge.com/news/616662/...
Occidental CEO about Direct Air Capture originally funded by Biden adm & corporations to pursue net-zero:
“We believe the next round of technology that’s going to add significant barrels - 50 to 70 bn barrels of reserves - will be production that comes from the use of CO2 in enhanced oil recovery”.
Russian military spending over past decade = roughly two thirds the combined UK & France total, and roughly half the combined UK + France + Germany total (source: SIPRI)
Those who think even more should be spent should be made to work a lot harder to justify it
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Cycling is 10 times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities and 100 times more fun.
In a new article in Science this month www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @olafcorry.bsky.social and I argue that the geopolitics of solar radiation modification (SRM) demands prior agreement on non-deployment to make space for well-governed research. (Abridged here, but still a long thread ... 2/33)
There is something really spooky going on at the Presidential Inauguration. Apparently, no women can enter the room where it is happening unless they are on the arm of a man, who appears to be there to guide them, as if they are unable to walk unaided. Is this the new America that Trump wants?