Wenn ein Fördersystem wegen der Antragsflut so überlastet ist, dass es zu der Zwangsmaßnahme rückwirkender(!), mehrjähriger Sperrfristen gegen Wiederbewerbungen greift: Ist das noch Exzellenzförderung – oder eine kafkaeske Lotterie der Karrierechancen? #IchBinHanna
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“These deaths are incomprehensible, given there is environmental water sitting in the dam. This could save the turtles, but WaterNSW is just not allowing its release,"
- Prof Deb Bower
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How to stop fascism and the far right.
In a nutshell: offer voters a non-establishment eco-left alternative that *genuinely* stands for people and planet.
It's not complicated.
My latest for @sciam.bsky.social is all about the real biology, ecology, and climate science that is used to create the world of Pokémon, and how scientists use it to teach science in the real world.
This is just about the most fun I’ve ever had interviewing anyone, and I hope you enjoy! 🧪🌎
The research combined real-world ocean observations with the models to determine the most reliable, and this hugely reduced the spread of uncertainty. They found an estimated slowdown of 42% to 58% in 2100, a level almost certain to end in collapse. The Amoc is a major part of the global climate system and brings sun- warmed tropical water to Europe and the Arctic, where it cools and sinks to form a deep return current. A collapse would shift the tropical rainfall belt on which many millions of people rely to grow their food, plunge western Europe into extreme cold winters and summer droughts, and add 50-100cm to already rising sea levels around the Atlantic. Dr Valentin Portmann, at the Inria Centre de recherche Bordeaux Sud-Ouest in France and who led the new research, said: "We found that the Amoc is going to decline more than expected compared to the average of all climate models. This means we have an Amoc that is closer to a tipping point." Prof Stefan Rahmstorf, at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, said: "This is an important and very concerning result. It shows that the 'pessimistic' models, which show a strong weakening of the Amoc by 2100, are, unfortunately, the realistic ones, in that they agree better with observational data." He added: "I now am increasingly worried that we may well pass that Amoc shutdown tipping point, where it becomes inevitable, in the middle of this century, which is quite close."
How can anyone claim that halting global heating is not a critically urgent priority or that we need more fossil-fuel development?
Coal, oil, and gas have already heated the world so much that this👇now seems likely to happen in our grandchildren's lifetimes.
Climate news stories across the globe have dropped nearly 40% since 2021, notes @maxboykoff.bsky.social, director of UC Boulder’s Media and Climate Change Observatory. www.loe.org/shows/segmen...
The amount of money and effort spent on keeping people hooked on fossil fuels over the last five decades is simply astounding. What if the same people had spend that much money and effort into developing alternatives?
This diagram shows the incentive structure of a world built to engineer its own destruction
Once you notice that fascism only has prominence in our society because of lavish subsidies, not any sort of organic or natural demand for the ideology, it’s hard to unsee it… and you’ll be angry about it, a lot.
Invest in/support policies that adopt and advance renewable energy, public transit, walkable cities, job training for transitioning from fossil fuels to renewable energy jobs, energy efficiency, etc. Simply by transitioning off of fossil fuels and adopting renewables, some 40% less energy is used.
Bad news - we'll soon blow through the carbon budget for stabilizing global temperature at 1.5C
Good news - progress on clean energy suggests it is possible to stabilize by 2C www.nature.com/articles/s41...
What does the science say? Neither is a magic threshold. Every bit of warming matters.
WORLD VIEW 15 April 2026 Why more fossil fuels won’t fix the Iran energy crisis Climate-friendly technologies are the best way to stymie rising inflation — and will get better and cheaper over time. By Gernot Wagner Spend any time discussing solar and wind power as a solution to climate change, and you are sure to encounter someone who asks about reliability. The Sun does not shine at night and the wind does not always blow, so fossil fuels will be needed forever as a back-up, they argue. But how reliable are fossil fuels? In the past two months, conflict in Iran has created an energy crisis — the latest in a series. Oil prices spiked within days of the start of US, Israeli and Iranian bombing in the Gulf region on 28 February. Fuel prices remain high and volatile, and the ripple effects are set to increase inflation in the coming months. Isabel Schnabel, a member of the European Central Bank’s executive board, memorably named this effect fossilflation in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. There was, and is, one clear winner: renewables and other low-carbon technologies, from batteries to electric vehicles (EVs) and heat pumps. That is what distinguishes this Middle East oil and gas crisis from the Arab oil embargoes of the 1970s. Then, renewables were mostly unavailable, and industrial decarbonization was on few people’s radars. Solar power cost at least 500 times more than it does today, and EVs, heat pumps and induction stoves were a pipe dream. Ditching fossil fuels is not all smooth sailing. In 2022, European natural-gas prices spiked to ten times their levels before the Ukraine invasion, resulting in long waiting times for solar panels and heat pumps. Prices for these rose as demand outpaced supply, an effect Schnabel dubbed greenflation. She used a third term, climateflation, to describe the economic effects of climate-induced weather extremes, such as food-price rises from crop failures (M. Kotz et al. Commun. Earth Environ. 5; 2024).
The Iran War has once again led to a bout of what @isabelschnabel.bsky.social memorably dubbed 'fossilflation'.
It's en vouge to talk about the solution as some massively complex undertaking. It really isn't. Get off fossil fuels faster.
My latest just out @nature.com
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"I entered this project in good faith, working with the mining company to help determine whether or not deep-sea mining at Solwara I could be conducted with minimal harm to the marine environment. I exited convinced that there is no viable path forward for hydrothermal vent mining, anywhere...."
Erica Payne, founder of @patrioticmillionaires.org: "Doing it around the edges is what got us this freak show in the WH sending out memes about him being Jesus & getting in a fight with the Pope in a country that prides itself on the separation of church and state. For heaven's sake! Enough already"
Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen:
Der Irankrieg hat nicht „die Energiepreise“ erhöht, sondern die für Öl und Gas.
Es werden nicht „die Autofahrer entlastet“, es werden Kosten für den Teil der Bevölkerung reduziert, der einen Verbrenner fährt. Auf Kosten aller anderen.
Jedes Auto, was abgeschafft wird, weil Menschen anerkennen, wie übel es ist, Ressourcen aus dem Globalen Süden zu rauben für ein Ding, was nur rumsteht, ist das beste Auto.
Leider gibt es hierfür NULL Anreize.
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Why does the world allow genocides in places like Congo, Palestine, & Sudan? Racism.
Why can the US instigate an illegal war in Iran with no real pushback? Racism.
Why is ICE allowed to freely murder & brutalize people? Racism.
Why can’t we truly progress as a society? Racism.
Putin keeps explaining to me how afraid of me he is so I should probably do exactly as he says
The common world, a shared reality in which we can test truth, include voices, and hold power to account, was never given to us. It was always built, and it can be built again, but only if we understand what we're building and why we lost it.
A regenerative populist stack looks different. Moral authority is grounded in harm caused by unaccountable power, not abstract identity. Certainty is assertive but corrigible. Evidence is expected to constrain claims. Correction weakens the claim but doesn't collapse belonging.
The #UNEP-FI Climate Pathways Navigator allows to compare results from Integrated Assessment models to industry and government scenarios to derive benchmarks for sectoral decarbonization.
A useful tool for scenario analysis & data visualization developed by the #IIASAvienna #ScenarioServices team!
NOW: B52 bombers are literally in the air on their way to Iran and hundreds of thousands of Iranians are in the streets waving flags and surrounding bridges & power plants.
Difficult to imagine this has any precedent in modern warfare.
(🎥 Al Jazeera)
I can't believe we have reached this point, but this bears crystal clear emphasis: Our global climate system ensures that even "limited" use of lower-yield "tactical" nuclear weapons against civilian or industrial targets would have major regional-to-global scale consequences.
heute journal: Wirtschaftsweisin lehnt Spritpreisdeckel ab - Dieser sei "ökonomisch verkehrt", so Wirtschaftsweisin Schnitzer. Es wäre "eine gute Stunde" um ein Mobilitätsgeld einzuführen. Die gesetzlichen Voraussetzungen seien geschaffen
@monika-schnitzer.com @svrwirtschaft.bsky.social
y'all.
🧵 Democracy feels like it's in a rough state at the moment across the globe, and we hear various explanations, like polarisation, extremism, disinformation, and loss of trust. But what if those explanations are mainly symptoms and we've been trying to treat them rather than the underlying causes?
Die Länder, die Klimaschutz früh umsetzen, sind besonders gut gegen externe Schocks gewappnet. Die explodierenden Benzinpreise sind ein starkes Argument, Innovation und den Ausbau der erneuerbaren Energien rasch voranzutreiben – egal, was andere tun.
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