A strong windstorm and rainfall have hit Unaizah in the Al-Qassim region, Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 🤣 Saudi Arabia is the world's second largest oil producer ❌ The latest IPCC report makes it clear no new fossil fuel projects can be opened.

Fossil fuel subsidies are never, ever the right answer. Quite the opposite.

What does the future hold for the thawing Arctic? Two experts unpack how trends in climate and geopolitics might unfold to shape the far north.

The lovely folks @nature.com asked me to review @cryopolitics.com & @klausdodds.bsky.social's book *Unfrozen* 📘 A great introduction for newcomers to the Arctic regions, Bennett & Dodds manage to "make the complex accessible and the mundane memorable" 🧑‍🚀 ❄️

You can read my review at rdcu.be/felxH

Almost half of EU’s busiest flight routes are ‘hard or impossible’ to book on trains – report ‘Stone age’ system of booking cross-border rail tickets holding back climate action by consumers, says thinktank

‘Stone age’ system of booking cross-border rail tickets holding back climate action by consumers, says thinktank

What physics gaps still stand between today’s stellarators and a future reactor?

Read more: buff.ly/A0IrSfu

#EUROfusion #EURATOM #FusionEnergy #Stellarator #HELIAS #Wendelstein7X

The 'dumb machine' promising a clean energy breakthrough A stellarator is difficult to build, but could it be the best way to make fusion energy work? www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yvm11xrn...

The 'dumb machine' promising a clean energy breakthrough

The 'dumb machine' promising a clean energy breakthrough

A stellarator is difficult to build, but could it be the best way to make fusion energy work?

I’m old enough to remember when talking heads scolded us for supposedly being in an echo chamber over our repeatedly stated global warming concerns. Almost as if we weren’t the ones in the chamber.

Nicht zwingend: bei aneutronischer Fusion ist auch Direktumwandlung in Strom mittels Magnetfeld möglich

What the historically low snowpack in the American West means for water and wildfire this summer Snow is a resource that will likely be in shorter and shorter supply in the years to come in the West, where researchers expect climate change to shrink snow-supplied water by about a quarter by…

"The amount of water stored in the snowpack historically peaks around April 1. But this year, the snowpack in many places was absent, or nearly so, by then—the lowest level in the 45 years since automated measurements began," writes
Anna Marija Helt @ahelt.bsky.social.

IEA: Solar overtakes all energy sources in a major global first Solar led global energy growth in 2025 as electricity demand surged, driven by EVs and data centers, the IEA says.

IEA: Solar overtakes all energy sources in a major global first | Electrek share.google/nVJ9KbYivo9n...

Decades of increased emissions from forest-fuelled BECCS - Nature Sustainability Governments are considering subsidies for bioenergy with carbon capture and storage fuelled by wood from existing forests. However, a transparent model estimates that this will probably increase emiss...

Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) doesn't work: "... 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"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Bei den Startups gibt es solche und solche, z.B. beschäftigt mit ca. 1.500 Mitarbeitenden @cfs.energy mehr Experten als das PPPL oder @plasmaphysik.bsky.social , viele kommen auch von diesen Einrichtungen, bei anderen bezweifle ich auch oft, ob die wirklich genau wissen, was sie tun

FIA Launches Fusion Spacecraft Propulsion Roadmap - Fusion Industry Association Fusion has the potential to revolutionize space propulsion as we know it. One leg of a mission to Mars using conventional chemical propulsion can take up to nine months. In contrast, a fusion-powered ...

Pulsar plans a first orbital test 2027, maybe it will get 2028, but doesn't tell the exact goals - here is a message by the @fusionindustry.bsky.social www.fusionindustryassociation.org/fia-launches... , Pulsar Fusion, Princeton Satellite Systems and Helicity Space are members of the FIA

maybe @formbar.bsky.social knows more or at least a colleague of him, who is more deeply into fusion propulsion

Direct Fusion Drive - Wikipedia

I am physicist, but no plasma expert, but what Pulsar Fusion is doing is just the Princeton proposal of a direct fusion drive, look here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_... it's considered as feasible and the numbers Pulsar gives are not exaggerated for a first generation fusion propulsion system

das ist keine Glaubensfrage, am Ende zählt nur, was Physiker und Ingenieure tatsächlich hinbekommen, v.a. hinsichtlich Strompreis daraus

Sánchez ist seit knapp 8 Jahren Ministerpräsident, der Mindestlohn stieg in seiner Regierungszeit um 66%. Er kontrollierte den Strompreis zu Beginn des Ukrainekrieges, und in der aktuellen Erdölkrise schnürt seine Linkskoalition ein Paket, das auch den einfachen Haushalten hilft.

DUH reicht Klimaklage gegen Bayern ein • Bayern verstößt mit unzureichendem Klimaschutzprogramm gegen landeseigenes Klimaschutzgesetz• DUH reicht Klage ein und fordert die Staatsregierung zur sofortigen Fortschreibung des Klimaschutzprogra...

Neue #Klimaklage gegen #Bayern: Freistaat verschleppt Fortschreibung des Klimaschutzprogramms und verstößt damit gegen bayerisches Klimaschutzgesetz. Wir werden wirksame Maßnahmen jetzt gerichtlich durchsetzen. www.duh.de/presse/press...

WHEN the AMOC collapses, temps in Europe will drop precipitously. Scientific consensus places the date when that tipping point is reached ever closer, so, as @lassessostehen.bsky.social put it: hey Europe, this would be your actual #collapse.

Care to have a conversation about it? No? Thought so.

Titel und Abstract des Artikels "The obscenity of hope". Link zum Artikel im Posting.

"Die Obszönität von Hoffnung" ... im Anthropozän. Ein vielversprechender Start in die Woche. Sagen was ist, statt Wunschdenken und falsche Illusion.
Hoffnung ist ja gut und recht, die Frage ist aber: Hoffnung auf was? Was erhofft ihr Euch von einer Zukunft >2C? www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

In China battery electric trucks and hybrid trucks now outsell diesel trucks for the first time.

Japan has issued tsunami warnings and advisories for northeastern coastal areas, including Iwate, Aomori, and Hokkaido, following a magnitude 7.5 earthquake that struck off the coast of Sanriku around 16:53 JST today.

Find out the latest from Japan Meteorological Agency: bit.ly/4tmp7Pb

.. außer eine Mehrheit versteht, was da passiert, lernt mit unlösbaren Problemen und Verlusten angemessen umzugehen, v.a. auch angesichts faschistischer Erfahrungen anderer Länder. Faschismus in multiplen Krisen ist zwar die Default-Einstellung aber kein Naturgesetz.

Politik im #Kollaps handelt nicht von der Lösung der Probleme (die in vielen Fällen unlösbar geworden sind), sondern davon, Sündenböcke für all das zu finden, was nicht mehr lösbar ist.

Deswegen wird Politik im Kollaps immer dümmer und faschistischer.

HISTORIC HEAT WAVE IN SOUTHERN AFRICA

Incredible hot night again in SOUTH AFRICA & MOZAMBIQUE

Min 26.7C Inhambane
25.0C Durban
24.9C Virginia
24.7C Mt Edgecombe
16.3C Shaleburn

HOTTEST APRIL NIGHT IN HISTORY

Next 2 days Mozambique can approach 40C !
Historic.

NEU im SPRIND 🎧 #Podcast:
Welche Ansätze gibt es in der Kernfusion? Wie konkurrenzfähig sind die europäischen Start-ups? Unser Host spricht mit Markus Roth, Plasmaphysiker an der TU Darmstadt und Co-Gründer des Fusionsstart-ups Focused Energy.

🔗 Episode #124 des SPRIND Podcast ist jetzt online.

morgen 21.4.26 19 Uhr wieder Piratentreffen in Stuttgart-Vaihingen im Maulwurf: wiki.piratenpartei.de/BW:Stammtisc...

Richtig, alle Sterne und technischen Fusionssysteme sind auf den Tunneleffekt angewiesen, um nennenswerte Reaktionsraten bei der Fusion zu erzielen, da zu wenige Ionen im Maxwell Schwanz der Geschwindigkeit schnell genug sind, die Coulomb-Abstossung direkt zu überwinden

Graphic produced by Climate Central showing daily global sea surface temperatures in °C for all years since 1982 with the long-term mean and 2026 annotated.

Global ocean sea surface temperatures have surged to the highest on record for this time of year!

Join me in our monthly webinar next week to discuss these recent global climate extremes, as well as reviewing the historic March heatwave.

➡️ Register here: climatecentral-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...