I'm sorry, what?

Kirjoittelin käristyskupoleista, ilmastoinnista ja siitä, miksi olin viime viikon Ikävää Seuraa.

Media reaction: How climate change intensified Europe’s record-breaking June heat ✍️ Written by @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org @giulianaviglione.bsky.social @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org and @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social Read here ➡️ buff.ly/cySkDf0

Beginning next week, Australians get free electricity for three hours every afternoon. That's what happens when you build out wind, sun, and batteries open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

Remember that heat pumps can also be cooling infrastructure. This is an issue with a partial solution progressives can and should own. geopolitique.eu/en/2023/03/0...

im genuinely worried about what happen when the political right in europe figures out that they can tie the academic climate movement to an anti-airco position, while europe is experiencing 40C+ heatwaves, and popular demand for aircos is gonna skyrocket

I feel a deep sense of loss as the temperatures reach the mid thirties here in England multiple days in a row. These were the scenarios I read about as a teenager that originally brought me to the climate issue. Can they still galvanise us when they are real?

Here's the CCC's @elpinchbeck.bsky.social speaking today in front of the Met Office's new "future forecast" for a... ..."plausible 2056 heatwave". Yes, that's showing 45C (113F) in the Bristol area! With exquisite timing, the UK's all-time June temp record is due to be broken this week.

eavesdropping on a couple of english lit academics in st. john, i overheard confirmation of what is surely going to be the biggest literary news story of the year

Kirjamme Palavan maailman politiikka Kulttuuritoimituksen "Parasta juuri nyt" -listalla!

Oxford, the longest running continuous weather station in UK history, with temperature observations stretching back to 1815, has preliminarily broken its maximum temperature record for May yesterday by OVER 3ºC with a temperature of 33.7ºC. Unprecedented in its 211-year history.

I can confirm that the minister is not engaging in hyperbole here – but I also think the Swedish way of life deserves all the attacks we can throw at it

A NEW TWIST in Africa's soaring solar story: It's now manufacturing its own panels. The factories use imported Chinese cells, which are 40% of the value of panels, keeping much of the value domestically. 9 GW of cells+wafers in Mar/Apr alone🧵

StupidSuez, meet StupidCubanMissileCrisis

I wrote a piece for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social on the historic Santa Marta conference that addressed how, not if, to phase out fossil fuels. It named the problem, forged new alliances and drew attention to the legal and financial architectures that block phaseouts tribunemag.co.uk/2026/05/lett...

Many thanks to Chiara Cordelli for this masterclass with our PhDs and postdocs ahead of her Brian Barry Lecture this evening www.lse.ac.uk/government/e...

Mendelssohn und Jacobi be like 😵🔫🧐

Kiitos YLE, joka tiedottI radiossa ja nettisivujen uutisissa ajantasaisesti vaaratilanteen ja myös sen päättymisen. Terkkuja YLE-kriitikoille, lopettakaa Suomen luotettavimmalta medialta leikkaamisen vaatiminen. 112-sovellus ei toiminut ja ministerit luulevat X:n olevan virallinen tiedotuskanava 🤯

Ensin tulee Nato-kielto, sitten tulee Nato-viha, seuraavaksi Nato-neuvottelu ja vielä Nato-masennus ennen Nato-hyväksyntää.

Unless they’re tracking Chinese clean tech export data - which I think only Ember does consistently? - all the energy scenarios models etc are just plain wrong.

Researchers Find Crows Smart Enough Not To Let On How Smart They Really Are https://theonion.com/researchers-find-crows-smart-enough-not-to-let-on-how-s-1844081510/

Happiness = getting your hands on a new translation of Krasznahorkai <3

❗Confrontational tactics like street blockades and food attacks on art hurt activists' image, but not their cause. 📄 New paper out in Political Behavior (@polbehavior.bsky.social) w/ @dasalgon.bsky.social @sophiahunger.bsky.social & @swenhutter.bsky.social. 🧵1/7

Been thinking about this text a lot recently

Huomenna @lottanarhi.bsky.social haastattelee minua ja Amosta Oodissa klo 17 kirjastamme. Tänään voin jo todeta myös itse kirjaesineen olevan aika miellyttävää lehteiltävää. Sinne siis kuulemaan kirjan aiheista ja kenties semmoinen - signeerauksineen päivineen - ostamaan?

Mielenkiintoinen tilaisuus mahtavan haastattelijan kanssa tulossa!

Haastattelen painotuoreen Palavan maailman politiikka -kirjan kirjoittajia @peperaikkonen.eurosky.social ja Amos Wallgrenia tiistaina Oodissa. Aiheina ilmastopolitiikan epäonnistuminen ja maailman pelastaminen tilanteessa jossa se jo palaa. Tervetuloa!

Travelling back home by land and I WILL subject you all to a thread of TRAINS and TRAIN STATIONS for the next two days. (grim looks courtesy of the 5am wakeup)

Great piece, but I do think it also engages in some spectacular shadowboxing. Sure, strategic decarbonization is meh, but are we supposed to conjure up the political know-how and technological base out of nothingness? Every partial victory is also a "not-good-enough" to some marxist out there.

An important intervention from Casey A. Williams in the debate over how war is reshaping decarbonization. Against the "passive optimism" of those see the war's impact on global energy as proof of the inevitable advance of renewables, Williams makes the case for a far more purposeful politics.

Kleine Geschichte des Liberalismus vor seinem Sieg! In seiner faszinierenden Kulturgeschichte des Frühliberalismus geht Albrecht Koschorke der heute wieder drängenden Frage nach, wie sich kollektives Handeln auf Rationalität und Zukunftsfähigkeit hin orientieren kann. Out now!

He could have gone for cheap shots (there were plenty of opportunities) but David took the time to write a thoughtful and super informative rebuttal to the drivel in Monthly Review. Worth a read even if you didn't see the original

📚🎆 Ilolla voin viimein ilmoittaa että Amos Wallgrenin kanssa kirjoitettu esikoiskirjani lähti tänään painoon! ✍️🫡 Kunhan kerkeän tästä Suomeen niin sen ympäriltä kaikennäköistä häppöninkiä. Pysykää linjoilla!!

📚🎆 Ilolla voin viimein ilmoittaa että Amos Wallgrenin kanssa kirjoitettu esikoiskirjani lähti tänään painoon! ✍️🫡 Kunhan kerkeän tästä Suomeen niin sen ympäriltä kaikennäköistä häppöninkiä. Pysykää linjoilla!!

The Science on AMOC-tipping is... well, the word "depressing" doesn't cut it. Once again most new observational data and estimates based on it show greater slowdown and thus more probable tipping. This is not something you just adapt for.

Something left-wing critics of the EU get right – and takes like this always ignore – is that supranationalism does not mean some other form of exclusion is not operative. See e.g. Kundnani’s concept of eurowhiteness. This becomes much less puzzling.

Rikkaita ei ole riittävästi, että veronkorotuksilla voitaisiin tasapainottaa julkista taloutta. Köyhiä sen sijaan on yhä enemmän, joten heiltä leikkaamista voidaan jatkaa ”hamaan tappiin”.

Glad to see this meme is now official US policy

the iranian president, but close enough

People who still have this debate would do well to read Chapter 3 of Deleuze's Difference and Repetition. Not the rest of the book necessarily (it can be very annoying). But the critique of the dogmatic image is genuinely a masterclass in synthetic scholarship and (imo.) quite clear as well!

No niin, ehdin viimein tehdä ketjun UTAKin tuoreen selvityksen keskeisimmistä tuloksista. Vuodesta 2031 alkaen velkajarru edellyttää, että Suomen julkinen velkasuhde laskee keskimäärin vähintään 0,75 %-yks. vuodessa, kunnes velkasuhde on alle 40 % BKT:stä. 1/x

Finally: Empedocles, in his own words...

An Easter message from the president which should really force the VP and the cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment.

76/ The amount of pain and misery that the US is heaping upon the world is staggering. Everyone knows that fuel fertilizer food shocks are coming. While millions go hungry & governments are destabilized www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/war... bsky.app/profile/bloo...

»Können wir jetzt endlich eine ernsthafte Diskussion über eine antifaschistische Wirtschaftspolitik führen?« Unser Buch des Monats kommt erst im Oktober – kann aber jetzt schon vorgemerkt werden: »Antifaschistische Wirtschaftspolitik« (shrk.vg/Wirtschaftsp...) von @isabellamweber.bsky.social.

And even though the 🇭🇺 public is considered rather conservative, the data here show that, together, ~50% are actually left-liberal-leaning. These people are currently barely represented (and won't be under a Magyar government). That's a crisis of democratic representation then, if you ask me. 9/

Really pleased to advertise these 4 LSE postdocs in the history of popular government as part of our ERC Synergy Project "Popular Government in Global Perspective (POPGOV)"