May 9th #EuropeDay 2026 #stronger2gether 🇪🇺!

Lots of people getting their heat pump before the heating season begins. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

AMOC collapse on front page. If it happens, effects for the Netherlands can be bad: cold winters, heavy storms, drought, extra sea level rise. Some scientific research now estimates a probability of 50%. Still, it's hard to get a few millions of funding for ocean measurements, scientists complain.

Happy International Workers’ Day. May 1st.

If this is legit then all the energy modelling, scenarios and projections you have seen are wrong. electrek.co/2026/04/27/c...

I got inside a European AI energy summit in Brussels last month, and the mood among gas industry players was buzzing. The UK and EU are about to unveil regs determining whether Europe's AI boom can be gas powered - even if its a disaster for the climate. Will they bow to Big Tech pressure? More👇

European reality: 👉 Heatwaves extend from the Arctic to the Mediterranean 👉 Sea surface temperature is highest on record 👉 Wildfires burnt the largest area on record 👉 70% of rivers had below-average annual flows Not sustainable. Not distant. Now. wmo.int/news/media-c...

Clear expectations to the EU from citizens to act while at the same time many govts (esp. Germany) declare action taboo.

It's World Book Day. My current read: The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco.

De gehele economische wetenschap en praktijk zegt: arbeid zal stromen van waar lonen laag zijn en arbeid overvloedig naar waar lonen hoger zijn en arbeid schaars is. En in Europa denken sommigen dan: als ik heel duidelijk zeg dat, dat niet de bedoeling is, dan zal dat wel anders uitpakken. 🙄

Ze weten het allemaal wel, maar het openlijk uitspreken is politieke zelfmoord... www.universiteitleiden.nl/nieuws/2024/... cmsny.org/importance-o...

Finally. This week Von Der Leyen said "electrifying Europe means making Europe more independent" in her response to the Oil price crisis. Compare that to the response to the Gas price crisis 2022/2023 when VDL announced the creation of a hydrogen bank..

Het systeem is niet alleen duurzaam, maar potentieel ook financieel voordelig. „In zeven jaar is dit terugverdiend”, zegt Baltussen. „En als de Straat van Hormuz dicht blijft twee keer zo snel.”

Onnodige bangmakerij. Lucht-luchtwarmtepompen zijn een prima optie om verwarming fossielvrij te maken. Deze aircobezitters hebben in feite de veel gepushte hybride warmtepomp.

🔌 Europe’s fossil fuel dependence remains a vulnerability. Diversifying imports won’t fix it: it just shifts the risk. Enter “independence kits”! Tailored combinations of clean heat solutions, from heat pumps to solar, designed for each household. 🧵👇 #EnergySky #EUSky

The oil and gas companies profiting from war must be made to pay to protect vulnerable people from rising prices This money must also be used to reduce the EU's dependence on fossil fuels – boosting renewables, insulation, public transport, electrification – to avoid future crises like this

Pope Leo at Chrism Mass: “The imperialist occupation of the world is disrupted from within; the violence that until now has been the law is unmasked. The poor, imprisoned, rejected Messiah descends into the darkness of death, and brings a new creation to light.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

A new op-ed by our director @tomvasseur.bsky.social, and Barbara Metz, director of @umwelthilfe.bsky.social explores why Germany’s proposed heating reform risks undermining the transition at a critical moment. 🇩🇪 #EnergySky #EUSky 🧵👇

Five books to get to know me by: Václav Havel, Open Letters: Selected Writings, 1965-1990 Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own Bram Stoker, Dracula George Elliott, Silas Marner Paul van Ostaijen, Bezette stad (Occupied city)

Het is raar dat de @nieuws.nos.nl nu al 3 dagen lang gekopt heeft met "leeft VS-piloot nog" (met alle respect: niet zó boeiend) en dit nieuws gewoon *niet* te vinden is.

He's not wrong. That's why millions of Europeans are trying to get solar panels, EVs and heat pumps. They provide energy security. We need to make them available to as many people as possible, as quickly as possible.

Electrify.

The big question for Europe is how fast it can electrify and deploy renewables/alt energy to bring down inflation and prevent a stagflationary trap. Europe needs to be thinking along the scale of NextGenEU. www.csis.org/analysis/eur...

🔌💡⚡ EU energy ministers gather to tackle the energy crisis; while many measures might be discussed, the root cause lingers: for Europe to establish its energy independence, it is necessary to ensure decarbonised, renewable, and affordable solutions for households across Europe. #EnergySky #EUSky

russian troops invaded Bucha on February 27, 2022. The city remained under occupation for 4 weeks. In those 4 weeks, over 500 innocent people were executed by the invaders. 4 years ago, Ukraine’s defenders liberated Bucha. Remember those who didn’t live to see the day🕯️

Het is tijd voor een nieuwe Rode Lijn-demonstratie.

Scratch a Dutch finance minister and a bigot bleeds. Asked why the govt is not taking some financial support measures unlike other EU countries, minister Heinen said "I hear examples like Spain, Italy, and Greece. I doubt if we should take ***that*** type of country as examples to follow."

Beetje overkill PRO.

🛢️In a time when energy is being used as a weapon to undermine the policies and autonomy of entire economic regions such as the EU, empowering citizens to control their own heating and cooling should be a priority. 👉It’s also a measure that brings positive political momentum for legislators.

🇪🇺 Independence kits for Europe! To achieve energy independence, we must scale and combine clean heat solutions where they’re most needed. As @davidesabbadin.bsky.social highlights, €78bn/year is missing to deliver this by 2050. This gap must be plugged and reflected in the next EU budget.

Europese landen kochten voor $750 miljoen aan Amerikaanse wapens voor Oekraīne, maar volgens de Washington Post legt Trump de facto beslag op die wapens en wil hij ze naar het Midden-Oosten sturen voor zijn oorlog. Als dat klopt mag EuroNATO / de EU nu wel eens flink boos worden.

Gister, in verslaggeving uit Heerenveen: "‘‘Progressief’, dat zegt mensen hier niets’, denkt het voormalige raadslid. ‘We hebben nog een lange weg te gaan, maar ik ben bang dat veel mensen afhaken.’" www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/g...

Nederlandse provincies die verhoudingsgewijs (als % van grondgebied) gelijkaardig zijn aan het gebied dat Israël nu van Libanon wil stelen: - Friesland - Noord-Brabant - Drenthe - Overijssel In oppervlakte ongeveer even groot als de provincie Utrecht.

every environmentalist who has for DECADES been saying we need to get off oil and gas, watching governments panic at this energy crisis

The last LNG tankers from the Gulf arrive in the next 10 days. After that, many countries face a sharp drop in supply. Qatar’s Ras Laffan plant — 20% of global LNG — could be offline for 3-5 years. Reminder that fossil fuel import dependence is an energy security problem, not just a climate one.

Weet je wat anders ook altijd nog kan, en dit geldt ook voor FvD en PVV: “de onder nazi’s populaire partij”

Europe spent years debating whether the energy transition was affordable. Spain quietly answered the question: gas now sets its electricity price in only 7% of hours. Strategic autonomy doesn’t arrive via summit communiqués. It’s built in advance — in wind farms, solar parks, and grid investment

BREAKING: The blackout in Spain and Portugal in April 2025 did NOT happen because of renewables. The final ENTSO-E report on last year's Iberian blackout is out — and it's essential reading for anyone working on the energy transition. www.entsoe.eu/news/2026/03...

Ik verbaas me erover dat in dit stuk met geen woord wordt gerept over de energietransitie: stoppen met fossiele brandstoffen en overstappen op elektrische energie. Dat zou ik heel logisch vinden. Snap ik niet. Kabinet neemt adviezen IEA niet over: 'Geen tekorten in Nederland' - nos.nl/l/2607053

It is terrible to see a large part of Lebanon getting "the Gaza treatment" and nobody is stopping Israel. Many innocent civilians are dying and good to remember, Lebanon is another country and not part of Israel.... #israel #lebanon

"decarbonising Europe’s energy system is both more necessary and more achievable than previously thought." "a positive lesson from the last energy shock." The EU "managed to economise on energy use and to switch sources, including to renewable power, much better than expected."

Nee @deweverbart.bsky.social , de oorlog gaat voort om 2 redenen: 1) omdat we Oekraïne net genoeg steun geven om te overleven; niet om te winnen. 2) omdat Putin denkt een wig te kunnen drijven tussen Europese landen. En gij zijt mee verantwoordelijk voor allebei! Stuur verdomme die F16s eens!

»Wer sich solidarisch verhält, ist bereit, sowohl im langfristigen Eigeninteresse wie im Vertrauen darauf, dass sich der andere in ähnlichen Situationen ebenso verhalten wird, kurzfristig Nachteile in Kauf zu nehmen.« Jürgen Habermas, 2018.

"Zwischen Kapitalismus und Demokratie besteht ein unauflösliches Spannungsverhältnis; mit beiden konkurrieren nämlich zwei entgegengesetzte Prinzipien der gesellschaftlichen Integration um den Vorrang." - RIP Jürgen #Habermas

Afschuwelijk wat er vannacht heeft plaatsgevonden bij een Joodse school. Dit zorgt voor zoveel verdriet, zoveel angst. Iedere school en ieder kind in onze stad zou veilig moeten zijn. In Amsterdam is er geen plek voor antisemitisme en geweld.

Energy policy déjà vu in Europe. Oil reserve release. Gas price cap debate. State aid on the table. The toolkit looks like 2022 because fossil fuel dependence remains. Renewables and electrification reduce exposure. Crisis management does not.

Make no mistake. The Israeli govt wants to destroy int. law as we know it so it can commit atrocities without any consequences. The most "moderate" coalition party (Likud, Netanyahu's party) is an associate of PfE, the alliance of European far-right. All the others are even further right.