Not a Trump supporter, but it’s actually rather surprising how normal he is outside of his speeches and rallies.

There was this video of him playing golf with Bryson DeChambeau.

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That's all!
Here's the link to the book and the dataset if you're interested:
academic.oup.com/book/55270

Dataset: www.alessandro-nai.com/negative-cam...

3. My personal favourite claim: narcissistic voters are less likely to support narcissistic leaders.

Makes a lot of sense. If you think you're better than everyone, you'd hate if you see someone else who shares the same view!

2: In Ch.3, he claims that being a dark politician generally has no impact on their electoral chances.

I have some scepticism to this claim and might investigate this further. But I think it does have some credit. If Nai is right, then the rise of dark politics might not be a strategical decision.

1: Nai finds that dark politicians have no effect of voter turnout. I find this perhaps most intriguing.

He does acknowledge that it could simply be that new engaged voter groups are directly substituting disengaged disengaged voter groups. But this is definitely something worth looking into!

Didn't realise ACX was on BSKY. Check out their account and other articles.
@astralcodexten.com.web.brid.gy

Source: IEA (2024) Coal: Analysis and Forecast to 2027
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Again – this is not suggesting that the EU is not doing enough. There is more to the story. One of the reasons are that industries that were easy to transition (the low hanging fruits) have done so, and hence other industries are harder to transition.

(5/5)

This by no means go against the conclusion of their report.

What is misleading is that we might intuitively believe that the villains are China and India from the graph. Instead, they will be the ones driving the plateau, as EU's ability to phase out coal declines.

(4/5)

By that same logic, the IEA also expects the rate of China, India, and ASEAN to reduce coal consumption. Take India as an example, they saw a 70Mt increase between 2023-24. But the increase average annual increase between 24-27 is merely 36Mt. That's nearly half!

(3/5)

But there's more to the story:

The reduction of fossil fuels in the European Union has decreased. Between 2023-24 they reduced 42Mt. However, between 24-27, they will only reduce an average of 23Mt a year. IEA expects the EU's coal phaseout to slow down.

(2/5)

That being said – it's not surprisingly that these two events are ever so slightly correlated.

Both Germany and South Korea are countries that are strong economic hubs, but are at risk of being left behind in the climate race. Maybe this has led to increased levels of political volatility?

That being said – I'm a bit sceptical about what I am reading here. I've tried to look for a different source and the original agreement that states the UK gov will compensate BP and Equinor. Can't seem to find anything on it.

Love to hear from anyone if they can provide a source or context!