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"Around Europe, labor parties have alienated their base by forming grand coalitions with the center-right . In Denmark, Mette Frederiksen’s Social Democrats have pursued this strategy with the same dismal results."
From my analysis Jacobin on the state of Danish politics after the local elections
From my analysis Jacobin on the state of Danish politics after the local elections
In Denmark, Social Democracy Is Failing
Around Europe, old labor parties have alienated their base by forming grand coalitions with center-right forces. In Denmark, Mette Frederiksen’s Social Democrats have pursued this same strategy with t...
jacobin.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:47 AM
"Around Europe, labor parties have alienated their base by forming grand coalitions with the center-right . In Denmark, Mette Frederiksen’s Social Democrats have pursued this strategy with the same dismal results."
From my analysis Jacobin on the state of Danish politics after the local elections
From my analysis Jacobin on the state of Danish politics after the local elections
Not so fun climate realism fact: Today's rate of warming is significantly faster than the end-Permian.
Billionaires and tech bros cosplaying volcanoes will surely do the trick.
Billionaires and tech bros cosplaying volcanoes will surely do the trick.
This is the paper www.nature.com/articles/s41..., and this is a quote from the author of the paper Ben Black when I interviewed him about it
November 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Not so fun climate realism fact: Today's rate of warming is significantly faster than the end-Permian.
Billionaires and tech bros cosplaying volcanoes will surely do the trick.
Billionaires and tech bros cosplaying volcanoes will surely do the trick.
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Andre Lago just mentioned that his initiative for the fossil fuel phase-out roadmap will indeed benefit from the first phase-out conference in Colombia next year.
Now, THIS is historical. A clear signal that if they intend to create a roadmap, they will have to do it alongside civil society.
Now, THIS is historical. A clear signal that if they intend to create a roadmap, they will have to do it alongside civil society.
November 22, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Andre Lago just mentioned that his initiative for the fossil fuel phase-out roadmap will indeed benefit from the first phase-out conference in Colombia next year.
Now, THIS is historical. A clear signal that if they intend to create a roadmap, they will have to do it alongside civil society.
Now, THIS is historical. A clear signal that if they intend to create a roadmap, they will have to do it alongside civil society.
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And as I've been saying for a few years, if we go rid of the possibility of adding ridiculous self-congratulatory clauses in these declarations, they may actually read as less cynical when they underdeliver each year.
4/ As per my tweet yesterday, language on overshoot (bad!) and hilarious congratulations on reducing warming from 4C to 2.3-2.5C. We’re doin’ great folks!! FIN
November 22, 2025 at 3:14 PM
And as I've been saying for a few years, if we go rid of the possibility of adding ridiculous self-congratulatory clauses in these declarations, they may actually read as less cynical when they underdeliver each year.
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After more than 10 years of “the Danish Model”, nativism is hegemonic in the country, the far right polls near level highs again, and the Social Democrats lost Copenhagen and poll at historic low.
European Social Democrats should look at the facts, not the myths!
Me in @theguardian.com
European Social Democrats should look at the facts, not the myths!
Me in @theguardian.com
The ‘Danish model’ is the darling of centre-left parties like Labour. The problem is, it doesn’t even work in Denmark | Cas Mudde
This week’s local elections are the latest reminder that when social democrats move rightwards, they’re making a mistake, says academic and author Cas Mudde
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:59 PM
After more than 10 years of “the Danish Model”, nativism is hegemonic in the country, the far right polls near level highs again, and the Social Democrats lost Copenhagen and poll at historic low.
European Social Democrats should look at the facts, not the myths!
Me in @theguardian.com
European Social Democrats should look at the facts, not the myths!
Me in @theguardian.com
The reaction and mobilization over on the other site against the UK Covid Inquiry's rather obvious conclusion that a well-timed lockdown works better than an ill-timed lockdown shows, yet again, that in their efforts to understand contemporary authoritarianism/fascism, the Scandinavian left's...
UK Covid Inquiry concludes: 23,000 deaths could've been prevented if the March 2020 lockdown had been imposed just a week earlier.
No mistake by any prime minister in living memory has caused so many deaths in the UK.
The tragic and catastrophic price of Boris Johnson's incompetence & negligence.
No mistake by any prime minister in living memory has caused so many deaths in the UK.
The tragic and catastrophic price of Boris Johnson's incompetence & negligence.
November 21, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The reaction and mobilization over on the other site against the UK Covid Inquiry's rather obvious conclusion that a well-timed lockdown works better than an ill-timed lockdown shows, yet again, that in their efforts to understand contemporary authoritarianism/fascism, the Scandinavian left's...
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Kamikkallalii (One with Short Boots)
Ningiukulu Teevee ~ Inuk
2025
Ningiukulu Teevee ~ Inuk
2025
November 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Kamikkallalii (One with Short Boots)
Ningiukulu Teevee ~ Inuk
2025
Ningiukulu Teevee ~ Inuk
2025
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While the Reuters report says an AMOC shutdown "could trigger a modern-day ice age", this is not what we scientists call an ice age. Rather, it is a regional cooling, plus other severe impacts on sea level, rainfall patterns, weather extremes, marine ecosystems and ocean carbon uptake.
November 18, 2025 at 10:57 AM
While the Reuters report says an AMOC shutdown "could trigger a modern-day ice age", this is not what we scientists call an ice age. Rather, it is a regional cooling, plus other severe impacts on sea level, rainfall patterns, weather extremes, marine ecosystems and ocean carbon uptake.
"Less than 10 percent of all plastics that go into waste streams are recycled. Because of their chemical composition, plastics are extremely difficult to recycle—and of those few recyclable plastics, they can only be recycled once, downcycled into lower-quality and disposable plastics."
"The environmental consequences of plastics production are nothing short of catastrophic." www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...
Plastic Planet | Venus Bivar
Stalled negotiations and accelerating accumulation in the global petrochemicals industry
www.phenomenalworld.org
November 18, 2025 at 8:45 AM
"Less than 10 percent of all plastics that go into waste streams are recycled. Because of their chemical composition, plastics are extremely difficult to recycle—and of those few recyclable plastics, they can only be recycled once, downcycled into lower-quality and disposable plastics."
The ultimate "we'll update our understanding but keep the old praxis" is when public health (like in Norway) made the pretty effing huge epistemic shift from droplet to aerosol, while simultaneously keeping recommendations of surgical masks, 2m, and FFP for AGP and highly symptomatic patients only.
Omfg why can infection control not get their 🤬 clown car in order and do their 🤬 jobs and tell people that for an aerosol hazard you need aerosol PPE?
Seriously, wtf is wrong with medicine that it tolerates this constant amateur-hour incompetence? We know this is killing people!
"Do no harm"?
🤬🤡
Seriously, wtf is wrong with medicine that it tolerates this constant amateur-hour incompetence? We know this is killing people!
"Do no harm"?
🤬🤡
France: "Wearing a mask is once again mandatory in Paris hospitals"
"Faced with a rapid rise in respiratory infections, several hospitals in the Île-de-France region have decided to reinstate mandatory mask-wearing for healthcare workers, visitors, and patients over the age of 6."
archive.li/ZeKtJ
"Faced with a rapid rise in respiratory infections, several hospitals in the Île-de-France region have decided to reinstate mandatory mask-wearing for healthcare workers, visitors, and patients over the age of 6."
archive.li/ZeKtJ
November 15, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The ultimate "we'll update our understanding but keep the old praxis" is when public health (like in Norway) made the pretty effing huge epistemic shift from droplet to aerosol, while simultaneously keeping recommendations of surgical masks, 2m, and FFP for AGP and highly symptomatic patients only.
Your regular reminder that a not insignificant part of Scandinavian public health and medicine, including top public health officials, have expressed support (privately) for the likes of Bhattacharya, Kulldorff, and the contrarian milieu thriving under RFK jr.
A new approach to pandemic preparedness:
1️⃣ Stop preparing for pandemics
2️⃣ Rewrite history of the last major pandemic
3️⃣ Go to the gym
Simple - 🤷♂️.
www.city-journal.org/article/nih-...
1️⃣ Stop preparing for pandemics
2️⃣ Rewrite history of the last major pandemic
3️⃣ Go to the gym
Simple - 🤷♂️.
www.city-journal.org/article/nih-...
NIH Directors: The World Needs a New Pandemic Playbook
The old one failed to cope with Covid and may even have caused it.
www.city-journal.org
November 15, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Your regular reminder that a not insignificant part of Scandinavian public health and medicine, including top public health officials, have expressed support (privately) for the likes of Bhattacharya, Kulldorff, and the contrarian milieu thriving under RFK jr.
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When Bill Gates Yelled At Me About Climate Change
Oh, this is good from @davidfenton.bsky.social and @theframelab.bsky.social
Oh, this is good from @davidfenton.bsky.social and @theframelab.bsky.social
When Bill Gates Yelled At Me About Climate Change
David Fenton recalls Bill Gates yelling at him in 2010 about climate change. 15 years later, Gates still gets it wrong and he's not alone.
www.theframelab.org
November 14, 2025 at 1:17 PM
When Bill Gates Yelled At Me About Climate Change
Oh, this is good from @davidfenton.bsky.social and @theframelab.bsky.social
Oh, this is good from @davidfenton.bsky.social and @theframelab.bsky.social
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In case you're wondering how cozy AI giant Nvidia, and its CEO Jensen Huang, are getting to the Trump administration, Huang's now showering praise on Energy Secretary Chris Wright, a climate denying fracking executive.....
My reporting for @desmog.com ⤵️
www.desmog.com/2025/11/12/n...
My reporting for @desmog.com ⤵️
www.desmog.com/2025/11/12/n...
Nvidia CEO Praises Trump Energy Chief — a Climate Denier — and his 'Passion' for Science
Jensen Huang gives "a shout-out for Secretary Chris Wright" as Nvidia and Trump administration partner on a massive AI buildout.
www.desmog.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
In case you're wondering how cozy AI giant Nvidia, and its CEO Jensen Huang, are getting to the Trump administration, Huang's now showering praise on Energy Secretary Chris Wright, a climate denying fracking executive.....
My reporting for @desmog.com ⤵️
www.desmog.com/2025/11/12/n...
My reporting for @desmog.com ⤵️
www.desmog.com/2025/11/12/n...
Vi mangler en nyansert debatt om opprustning, det er et problem. Hjelper ikke at rød-brun-venstre kupper kritikken.
Godt gjort av Friis å ikke ta opp faren for at opprustingen i Europa kan føre til utstrakt austerity-politikk, som igjen vil gi sterk grobunn for ytre-høyre kreftene han advarer mot!
Godt gjort av Friis å ikke ta opp faren for at opprustingen i Europa kan føre til utstrakt austerity-politikk, som igjen vil gi sterk grobunn for ytre-høyre kreftene han advarer mot!
Dette er hvorfor jeg gikk fra (hypotetisk) militærnekter til opprustningsforkjemper.
Europa er i stor fare
Kan ytre høyre vinne fram i Europa om vi ikke klarer å stanse Vladimir Putin i Ukraina? Det er dessverre et fullt mulig utfall.
www.dagsavisen.no
November 12, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Vi mangler en nyansert debatt om opprustning, det er et problem. Hjelper ikke at rød-brun-venstre kupper kritikken.
Godt gjort av Friis å ikke ta opp faren for at opprustingen i Europa kan føre til utstrakt austerity-politikk, som igjen vil gi sterk grobunn for ytre-høyre kreftene han advarer mot!
Godt gjort av Friis å ikke ta opp faren for at opprustingen i Europa kan føre til utstrakt austerity-politikk, som igjen vil gi sterk grobunn for ytre-høyre kreftene han advarer mot!
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By providing spatially and temporally resolved meltwater fluxes, our dataset could enable a large set of models to explore how AMOC might respond to realistic freshwater forcing, not just idealised pulses. This is a key step toward understanding future climate dynamics under continued ice loss (5/n)
November 8, 2025 at 3:52 PM
By providing spatially and temporally resolved meltwater fluxes, our dataset could enable a large set of models to explore how AMOC might respond to realistic freshwater forcing, not just idealised pulses. This is a key step toward understanding future climate dynamics under continued ice loss (5/n)
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This week's column is on Billionaire Brain: the condition which seems to prevent extremely rich people from perceiving the utterly bleeding obvious.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I wish we could ignore Bill Gates on the climate crisis. But he’s a billionaire, so we can’t | George Monbiot
Money talks – and his essay denouncing ‘near-term emissions goals’ at Cop30 mostly argues the case for letting the ultra-rich off the hook
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:19 AM
This week's column is on Billionaire Brain: the condition which seems to prevent extremely rich people from perceiving the utterly bleeding obvious.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The insidious rhetoric of Lomborg has broad appeal (J.W. Moore is a huge Fazi stan!)
November 6, 2025 at 8:49 AM
The insidious rhetoric of Lomborg has broad appeal (J.W. Moore is a huge Fazi stan!)
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Dr. Craig Spencer: "It’s not a stretch to say this administration is touting a eugenics agenda, which was perfected by the U.S. in the 1920s and 1930s and later adopted by the Nazis. People don’t want to call it that because it feels unsayable. But it’s real.."
Public Health Professor Warns Trump’s ‘Eugenics’ Policy Echoes Nazism
Eminent ER doctor says Trump’s shutdown push defies the law.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 1, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Dr. Craig Spencer: "It’s not a stretch to say this administration is touting a eugenics agenda, which was perfected by the U.S. in the 1920s and 1930s and later adopted by the Nazis. People don’t want to call it that because it feels unsayable. But it’s real.."
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A good article on what is going on in Serbia, feat. your favourite sociology and philosophy professor explaining why there has, historically, been only one way for a true system change ;) www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
After a year of street protests, Serbia’s students split on what should come next
As a radicalised generation presses its calls for political change, a debate has opened up over whether to join battle by the ballot box
www.theguardian.com
October 31, 2025 at 10:52 AM
A good article on what is going on in Serbia, feat. your favourite sociology and philosophy professor explaining why there has, historically, been only one way for a true system change ;) www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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NEW: Extraordinary scenes in the Serbian city of Novi Sad right now.
Hundreds of thousands of students have marched for days across Serbia.
A huge protest against Vučić’s government as they commemorate the anniversary of the Novi Sad rail station disaster, a year ago today.
(🎥 Lazar Stojakovic)
Hundreds of thousands of students have marched for days across Serbia.
A huge protest against Vučić’s government as they commemorate the anniversary of the Novi Sad rail station disaster, a year ago today.
(🎥 Lazar Stojakovic)
November 1, 2025 at 3:39 PM
NEW: Extraordinary scenes in the Serbian city of Novi Sad right now.
Hundreds of thousands of students have marched for days across Serbia.
A huge protest against Vučić’s government as they commemorate the anniversary of the Novi Sad rail station disaster, a year ago today.
(🎥 Lazar Stojakovic)
Hundreds of thousands of students have marched for days across Serbia.
A huge protest against Vučić’s government as they commemorate the anniversary of the Novi Sad rail station disaster, a year ago today.
(🎥 Lazar Stojakovic)
Dette er svært uredelig, på grensen til konspiratorisk argumentasjon:
Skyrud viser først til en ikke navngitt gruppe fagpersoner som hevder Covid vil føre til samfunnskollaps, og hevder lenger ned i tråden at:
"ett av de sentrale argumentene til de som mener at samfunnet ikke vil tåle...
Skyrud viser først til en ikke navngitt gruppe fagpersoner som hevder Covid vil føre til samfunnskollaps, og hevder lenger ned i tråden at:
"ett av de sentrale argumentene til de som mener at samfunnet ikke vil tåle...
Tror det er viktig å ikke glemme at en gruppe fagpersoner har spådd at koronaviruset vil gjøre oss alle sjukere og sjukere og sjukere (fordi det visstnok ødelegger immunforsvaret), og at samfunnet derfor er på vei til å kollapse. Viktig å gjøre opp status sånn innimellom.
November 1, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Dette er svært uredelig, på grensen til konspiratorisk argumentasjon:
Skyrud viser først til en ikke navngitt gruppe fagpersoner som hevder Covid vil føre til samfunnskollaps, og hevder lenger ned i tråden at:
"ett av de sentrale argumentene til de som mener at samfunnet ikke vil tåle...
Skyrud viser først til en ikke navngitt gruppe fagpersoner som hevder Covid vil føre til samfunnskollaps, og hevder lenger ned i tråden at:
"ett av de sentrale argumentene til de som mener at samfunnet ikke vil tåle...
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Every single chance I get I teach the history of Haiti.
Because it absolutely did teach the world not just about freedom but also the violent repercussions often inflicted on those who seek freedom and justice.
Because it absolutely did teach the world not just about freedom but also the violent repercussions often inflicted on those who seek freedom and justice.
Finally someone bold enough to ask, is new york ready for a mayor who opposes slavery? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...
October 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Every single chance I get I teach the history of Haiti.
Because it absolutely did teach the world not just about freedom but also the violent repercussions often inflicted on those who seek freedom and justice.
Because it absolutely did teach the world not just about freedom but also the violent repercussions often inflicted on those who seek freedom and justice.
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In some climate models abrupt cooling in the subpolar gyre region is found, corresponding to a collapse of convection. Such tipping of the subpolar gyre might already occur around 2040 and could impact the stability of the AMOC.
For an analysis of abrupt shifts see: doi.org/10.1111/nyas...
For an analysis of abrupt shifts see: doi.org/10.1111/nyas...
October 28, 2025 at 12:27 PM
In some climate models abrupt cooling in the subpolar gyre region is found, corresponding to a collapse of convection. Such tipping of the subpolar gyre might already occur around 2040 and could impact the stability of the AMOC.
For an analysis of abrupt shifts see: doi.org/10.1111/nyas...
For an analysis of abrupt shifts see: doi.org/10.1111/nyas...
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Worried about shutdown of the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC? The collapse of the subpolar gyre is a likely step on the way to that and could happen a lot sooner. Not quite as bad as full AMOC shutdown, but could bring major impacts already in 10-20 years. Important study on the mechanism ⬇️!
📢 New paper out!
🌊 We discuss how well mechanisms of variability in the subpolar gyre are represented in climate models, finding that models that do this best are also the models in which abrupt shifts are found 😬.
It's a technical story, so here's a simple overview 🧵
doi.org/10.5194/esd-...
🌊 We discuss how well mechanisms of variability in the subpolar gyre are represented in climate models, finding that models that do this best are also the models in which abrupt shifts are found 😬.
It's a technical story, so here's a simple overview 🧵
doi.org/10.5194/esd-...
Causal mechanisms of subpolar gyre variability in CMIP6 models
Abstract. The subpolar gyre is at risk of crossing a tipping point under future climate change associated with the collapse of deep convection. As such, tipping can have significant climate impacts; i...
doi.org
October 29, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Worried about shutdown of the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC? The collapse of the subpolar gyre is a likely step on the way to that and could happen a lot sooner. Not quite as bad as full AMOC shutdown, but could bring major impacts already in 10-20 years. Important study on the mechanism ⬇️!