Though created primarily for amphibians, this cluster of newish ponds on edge of Humberhead Peatlands produced a decent invertebrate fauna including the Near Threatened water beetle Hydrochus elongatus. Location matters: new habitat close to existing can draw on a large pool of potential colonists.
In almost 30 years of living in and around Death Valley I have never seen the calthaleaf phacelia this dense and abundant, coating the barren rock hills with purple. They are having a banner year in this hyperarid part of the Mojave Desert
This gem of a pond is on a remnant of common land near York. I last sampled here 20 years ago, so reassured to find the scarce and declining diving beetle Agabus labiatus still present. The surrounding fen and wet grassland supports a rich invertebrate assemblage including several other rarities.
A message of "we will manage the decline slightly better than the other guys" simply does not inspire the kind of massive, grassroots mobilization required to overcome deeply entrenched, aggressive opposition from the billionaire interests in both parties.
NYT is a repeat offender pushing the idea that activists are scary radicals
Excellent! Thank you!
Deforestation: Why a "no-risk" category would jeopardize the EUDR’s effectiveness and Why the current regulation is already fit for purpose: www.wri.org/insights/no-...
#carbon #deforestation #timber #beef #cattle #palmOil #oilPalm #emissions #landUse #agriculture #rubber
DAG: skin cancer is caused by age and sunburn (via moving to Florida)
Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) and Regression for Causal Inference
by Susan Alber (2022) health.ucdavis.edu/media-resour...
#intervention #policy #causality #causalInference #stats #statistics #counterFactuals #probabilities #causation #confounding
We also push back on the idea that “consumption” is irrelevant. We don't mean it as individual guilt or footprint obsession but as collective, everyday politics. It's vital to push for building new infrastructures and desires that make another way of living feel normal (and worth fighting for).
I will wait to read.
Does the preprint address?: Whether engaging the capital is an investment or an expenditure 🙂
Decolonisation and knowledges of decolonisation produced outside academia supersede the fraction of knowledge pooled in by academia on the topic. This realisation, not a hindrance in the labour of epistemic decolonisation, invites us to engage other formations of knowledge.
Thank you for the study.
Prohibition is a firm "stepping stone" (i like your wording).
You mention "expending significant political capital" but i understand that the driver's reputation was not consumed by the law. Is that correct?
NEW ARTICLE: How can fossil fuel non-producer contribute to the transition away from fossil fuels?
🇸🇪🛑Drawing on extensive interview data from my fieldwork in Sweden, I trace the political dynamics of Sweden’s 2022 fossil fuel exploration and extraction ban: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
High-grade semiconductors may be delivered for still some time.
The lack of sulfur from Africa to India already is preparing starvation in Q4.
I think i remember that there was even a paper that showed that the academic system rewarded the number of papers.
This is correct, papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
"CATE plot – interaction between income (quadratic) and treatment." "The effect of the experimental treatment on willingness to reduce consumption is conditional on income. However, that conditionality is non-linear. The effect of the treatment becomes more intense as income increases, achieving a level of statistical significance at higher levels of income." From https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2026.2633837
"Making people aware of intergenerational climate justice increases individuals’ willingness to accept near-term economic sacrifices."
Study confirms that public awareness campaigns and educational programs have more effect on the individual consumption of the rich.
h/t @doctorvive.bsky.social
Three-panel chart. Top: bar chart of annual fossil CO₂ 1959–2025 with linear fit, as above. Middle: cumulative emissions as a percentage of the 1850–2025 total, shaded blue pre-UNFCCC and orange post-UNFCCC, annotated at 45.3% by 1992 and 80.5% by Paris 2015. Bottom: year-on-year change in emissions as orange (positive) and blue (negative) bars, showing no systematic trend.
2/ Global fossil CO₂ has risen in a near-perfect straight line since 1959.
UNFCCC, Kyoto, Paris, all marked. None produces a visible change in trajectory.
53% of all industrial-era emissions have happened during the policy era.
The situation is a mouthful!
Your examples are informative but there might be a misunderstanding: i do not have a substack account.
On the contrary: i mostly publish from my own domain: data.yt
I stand warned. Thank you!
I found you thanks to this article.
Such prospects of fewer molecules are comforting.
But i guess your question mark indicates irony (over the propagation of catastrophic disruptions). Suffering is mounting.
"How One Reservoir, One Strait, and Five Manufacturers Became the Hidden Operating System of Seven Global Industries"
By Shanaka Anslem Perera:
See published PDF: www.jasonhickel.org/s/Principles...
Or Open-access version: zenodo.org/records/1904...
Credits to my colleagues: Vivien Fisch-Romito, Jason Hickel, Jarmo Kikstra, Joel Millward-Hopkins, Yannick Oswald, and Julia Steinberger,
"While post-growth will encounter stronger socio-cultural and political opposition from affluent classes and pro-capitalist actors who would see diminished power, it faces weaker geophysical and technological feasibility concerns by decreasing demand for energy, materials, and land."
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Europe's Annual Solar Installations The graph shows continuous and regular increase of solar installations from 2016 to 2023.
Thank you for the pointer!
The graph indeed shows continuous and regular increase of solar installations from 2016 to 2023.*
Yet Bloomberg does not remark that there also is a plateau at 2024: solar deployments in the EU stalled after state incentives vanished.
"A kilogram of CO₂ in the atmosphere has a warming effect that lasts millennia. You put a kilogram of methane in the atmosphere, the warming effect will disappear almost entirely after 20 years. So the amount of warming you get depends on the emission rate of methane".
via @jessimckenzi.bsky.social
I accept that. Thank you.
