Is the reason super rich people don't build monuments (museums libraries etc) anymore because they don't think they are going to die or because they think everyone is going to die and either way there's no point?
JP Morgan's report on tipping points is both extremely terrifying and extremely weird how they aren't screaming in 72-point font AND THIS IS WHY WE NEED TO KILL FOSSIL FUELS jpmorgan.celero.site/s/ab29c67c/c...
Bluebells in Brussels
Happy Earth Day!
These are the things I'm doing to help protect our shared environment:
-Not flying (7.5 yrs)
-Living in a highly insulated house with an ASHP & PV
-Reducing car journeys by using electric bike/public transport
-Low meat diet, no takeaways
-Voting Green
What do you do?
Planning my wedding was one of my least favourite things, and that was back in 2017 without using Instagram. Obviously I do still have a since unused Pinterest account full of unrealistic floral&hair arrangements
Can we finally agree that burning wood for energy is a terrible idea and won't be carbon neutral, let alone carbon negative, in our lifetimes? BECCS using wood certainly shouldn't qualify as CO₂ removal (CDR).
Modern Wood Stoves: More Broken Promises
Modern certified wood stoves were supposed to be 'clean-burning' but in the UK they have helped create a new pollution problem
#AirPollution #WoodBurning #Health #Environment
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Watermael-Boitsfort #1170
Brussels street scene from a balcony with cherry blossoms out in force
Prettiest time of the year on our street in Brussels.
Full-Time Mom Drunk On The Job
Full-Time Mom Drunk On The Job
Increased exposure to air pollution, such as particulates from fossil fuel combustion, correlates with increased rates of suicide.
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This is hilarious but also should be used as a seminal warning text in AI classes
Any serious analysis of "sustainable" aviation fuel comes down to this. The land use implications alone mean that SAF will never be more than a greenwash marketing term.
My child (6) complaining they are not tired even as it goes past the point of being an hour past their usual bed time.. vs me (42) unbelievably happy to be able to legitimately go to bed at what will feel like 830 but is now 930 #clockchange
The Iran War is Revealing the Messy Middle of Our Renewable Energy Transition www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/m...
Very strong article by @dwallacewells.bsky.social on the transition problem: it's easy to see a future world that's better than the one we have but getting there can be messy and v. hard.
Ban wood fire burners for the biggest improvements in PM2.5 emissions #airpollutionkills
Obviously not all new build houses necessarily come with MVHR (mechanical ventilation with heat recovery) but to have the most energy efficient home possible they are needed
The part about allowing new homes to have wood burners is also insane. As someone who has a new-build house in Brussels w/PV, HP and MVHR I can tell you that MVHR really doesn't go with wood burners, we are sucking in smoky air from all our neighbours and the filters can't get rid of all the smoke
Decades of Increased Emissions from Forest-Fueled BECCS Timothy Searchinger 1 ORCID Email Liqing Peng? Email Daniella Russi Charles Canham 4 ORCID へ 1 Princeton University, 2 Hong Kong University, 3 World Resources Institute, 4 Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies This is a preprint; it has not been peer reviewed by a journal. V https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-9038129/v1 This work is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License Abstract Should climate policies encourage bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) using wood from existing forests? Although mitigation pathways in integrated assessment models often rely on BECCS fueled by energy crops, European governments are moving to financially support BECCS sourced instead from existing forests. To estimate its emissions and financial costs, we develop a model that transparently tracks carbon flows from forest to end use and allows policymakers to easily alter assumptions. Modeling multiple wood- sourcing scenarios, we find that BECCS is unlikely to generate negative emissions within 150 years, is likely to produce higher emissions for decades than using natural gas without carbon capture and is likely to increase electricity costs by ~ 3.5-fold. Only limited improvements occur even if half of the wood comes from residues and half from fast-growing plantations. These results reflect that most emissions occur before the power plant and therefore cannot be captured, and that wood has twice the carbon intensity of natural gas and generates electricity less efficiently. These results counsel against emerging BECCS policies, and our easy-to-use model allows policymakers to evaluate results and different scenarios themselves.
In a preprint, researchers from Princeton, Hong Kong U, & WRI find that the form of carbon removal called "bioenergy w carbon capture & storage," or BECCS, is "likely to produce higher emissions for decades than using natural gas without carbon capture."
This is a Big Deal because the IPCC...
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Three years into the AI era, educators say they face a major crisis. Bosses and clients replacing tutoring jobs with AI. Replacing *athletic coaching* with AI. Many students now cannot grasp why they would *not* use AI for schoolwork. And worse.
The 5th installment of AI Killed My Job—educators:
Biofuel SAF needs crops like palm, soy, rapeseed.
Result? Deforestation, biodiversity collapse, water shortages, rising food prices.
We already saw this disaster when road transport scaled biofuels.
Now they want it for planes too?
#NotSustainable
Tech jobs suck right now. Teaching jobs suck, nursing jobs suck, higher ed really sucks. Non-profit jobs suck in a way that was unimaginable two yrs ago
Jobs that were once good are bad; jobs that were never great are worse than ever. Do *all* jobs suck right now?
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I wrote about everything happening too much in 2026 and the rise of ‘monitoring the situation. How total bombardment is partly a surrender to the internet and its logic and algorithms—a kind of attentional death
New: The number of days where extreme heat makes it too dangerously hot to walk the dog, sweep the porch and engage in other ordinary pursuits has doubled since 1950. Older people experience a month a year when heat prevents them from routine activities. Free link.
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2/2 and with no insurance, no mortgages; and with no mortgages, no property market. Insurance protects investments against loss and is therefore a pillar of the economic system. If it goes, economies are destabilised."
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Do rich people not know they need to breathe too? After binge watching The Agency and Selling Sunset and seeing so many high end properties with open fire places/inserts (even in LA??!!! It's not cold!) it would appear not. #airpollutionkills #PM2.5
2) Overshoot will not be temporary or even reversible. Some of the proposed plans to reverse temperatures are, upon inspection, extremely threadbare, serving as little more than mood music intended to maintain optimism. The reality is that large-scale carbon dioxide removal, does not exist. 5/11
“Thanks for the explanation.” = If you had told me this last week, you would’ve saved me a lot of time.
“Perhaps there was a misunderstanding.” = You didn’t fucking listen to me.
“I suppose that’s one way to go about it.” = Stop improvising and just do what I asked you to do.
🧠🌍New EEA briefing: Pollution exposure linked to depression, anxiety and suicide risk.
#MentalHealth disorders are among the leading causes of disease burden in Europe. While their origins are complex, a growing body of scientific evidence points to pollution as a contributing risk factor [...]
This is nuts and my take away is that I shouldn't play football with my nephew anymore (which happens about once a year and is the most intense 20 minute exercise of my year-he is 6) because I will blatantly tear my ACL
