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Willem Huiskamp

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Postdoc in oceanography and paleoclimate @pik-potsdam.bsky.social, formerly @ccrc.bsky.social

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Unexpected consequences of climate change #726: a bridge got too hot and now it can't close 😐

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"...the failure to address the climate crisis is evidence the political and economic system is fundamentally broken and the only logical response is a wartime campaign of resistance" 100% correct.

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The creeping authoritarianism in Australia is really bleak. HRLC examines two decades of governments eroding the right to protest.
"These laws have disproportionately targeted environmental defenders and people advocating for action on climate change."
www.hrlc.org.au/reports-news...

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Green with envy right now...

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“The extraordinary pace of China’s green energy investment in recent years may trigger defensive reactions in the west. But it is our best hope of actually achieving climate stabilisation in time to stave off planetary disaster.”

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The English speaking world should really take notice. Offering up do-nothing centrists is not the solution.

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Sam Burgess's avatar Sam Burgess @oceanterra.bsky.social
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Data released by Copernicus Climate shows:

📈 June 2024 was the warmest June on record
📈 The global average temperature for the last 12 months is the highest on record, 1.64ºC above pre-industrial
🌡️ 15th months that SST has been the warmest on record

More: climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-j...
🧪⚒️

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As of today, speed limiters are required in the EU.

All new cars sold in the EU and in Northern Ireland must have a range of technical safety features... The most notable of these is intelligent speed assistance – or colloquially, a speed limiter.”

www.theguardian.com/technology/a...

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Yes, but again, the poorer deciles are not flying to begin with and again, we should be disincentivising flying across the board. The point is that this reduction needs to occur on a much greater scale amongst the higher deciles, and a tax of sufficient size would do that.

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Ignoring the fact that flying is comically under-taxed to begin with, the point here is that a frequent fliers tax *specifically* targets wealthier individuals, as they are the only ones flying multiple times per year.

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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

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I think a tax is the most effective solution in an environment where international rail is still very inefficient and expensive. The trick is to make it big enough to properly impact behaviour.

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Fingers crossed. Our Labor party just turned out to be an enormous disappointment.

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As an Australian, I'm much more sceptical ...

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Carbon footprints among different income deciles in Germany are pretty similar.... until you look at transport. Once again, a very strong argument for a frequent fliers tax.
www.diw.de/documents/pu...

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Yeah, I'm being overly generous - they're just neoliberals. We have the same problem in Australia with the Labor party, who are essentially just centre-right at this point. Given the chance, they *always* side with the right over the left. It's nice to see some on Macron's side bucking the trend.

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"Le Monde estimated that 218 candidates – including 130 from the left and 82 from the Macron camp – withdrew from races by the deadline.
This left an estimated 91 three-way races and 2 four-way races on Sunday."
Pleasant surprise...
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

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Centrists tend to have a reeeeally bad track record here. Genuinely curious to see if Macron will buck the trend.

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Hey everyone, I finally got a new role at the Met Office. I'm scoping what a data-driven climate model might look like. So, if you're into ML and climate, foundation models or something more lightweight, get in touch. It would be great to chat.

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Me on a Friday afternoon

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"I hope this email finds you well." how your email finds me:

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"Australians (52%) are the least likely to think the costs of climate impacts and pollution will outweigh the costs of acting on those problems" Boy are they in for a surprise.

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manu chander (he/him)'s avatar manu chander (he/him) @profchander.bsky.social
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twenty thousand children

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Nice article (focussing on Aus.) on what you can do to reach a sustainable carbon footprint (because switching to renewables isn't gonna be enough).

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"New Delhi has clocked 38 consecutive days with maximum temperatures at or above 40C since May 14, according to weather department data." We haven't even reached 1.5 degrees of warming, by the way

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Peter Dutton’s flimsy charade is first and foremost a gas plan not a nuclear power plan | Simon Holmes à Court

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Oh no! But what if there was some rare lichen on them? Maybe some endangered moss?

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2) You're for some reason assuming that the LNP deserves to be one of these major parties. You don't! The indies are being elected because they offer policies people like! If you can't do that, enjoy becoming increasingly irrelevant (if only...).

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And finally, yeah I guess lasting change does require major party engagement (to some extent) but you're making two key mistakes. 1) As the electorate fractures away from a 2 party system, independents and minor parties have real power to get things done and...

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And don't get me started on the fucking 'climate wars' bullshit. Not only does this ring particularly hollow from a party more or less owned by the fossil fuel industry, the Labor party isn't much better!

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Secondly, this boils down to "vote for us or our policies get worse"... like, ok? That seems like a 'you' problem, as your party continues to lose relevancy and seats.

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Absolutely delusional stuff from NSW LNP member here... Where to begin? You can't blame voters for electing moderates when your party has done its best to purge those voices.

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This is *awesome*. I hoped for so long wet bulb would be integrated (great little explainer on why it's important, too).

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Yeah, I mean even if you don't care about climate change happening tomorrow, surely you care about pollution killing people today. PM10 doesn't discriminate.

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Dr. Dawn Wright's avatar Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social
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"Instead of Mining the Deep Sea, Maybe People Should Just Fix Stuff"
New report contends that deepsea mining not just an environmental risk, but won't meet the world’s renewable energy needs EITHER.
www.wired.com/story/instea...

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I never got a reply, by the way 🙃

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He makes a good point - he'd be further lining the pockets of fossil BILLIONaires, not those pathetic millionaires in the renewables sector. /s

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As someone who has recently been running simulations draining the ocean (and who is also Dutch), this video greatly pleased me.
youtu.be/Jpy55EgMQgY?...

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"“I’m not interested in lining the pockets of rich green millionaires,” said Dutton" It's lines like this that threaten to send me over the edge and become the joker

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Yup, he tagged me in a post. Thanks anyway though :)

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Nuclear will never be built in Australia. It’s too expensive, we don’t have a trained workforce, and nobody wants it. The danger here is that it takes the pressure off Labor’s weakness on climate. The inane binary of our politics means the next election is nukes vs gas. Our task is to stop both.

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Literally every media outlet should be doing editorials crucifying the LNPs moronic nuclear energy policy. Don't leave it to the opinion section (though this one is good).

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