Coherent longterm strategy: what the UK needs in so many areas of policy

Europeanen tegen elkaar opzetten, internationaal recht uithollen, luchtverkeer ontregelen: het zijn voorbeelden van hoe sluw en systematisch Rusland opereert. Het wordt tijd dat Europese politici een krachtiger respons formuleren, schrijft columnist Caroline de Gruyter. buff.ly/zJTGcLo

NEW: Biofuels globally emit more than the fossil fuels they replace, our latest study shows. The first-of-a-kind study looks at global biofuels production today and the potential impacts of government biofuel targets. 🧵⤵️

Growth! #Science, #tech & #innovation fuel green progress. From solar to EVs, STI drives change. Let’s measure it better. Dive into the @oecdinnovation.bsky.social report: www.linkedin.com/posts/kumli_...

it’s… the saddest story i can think of

As Trump champions fossil fuels, the world is betting on renewable energy. Despite a U.S. retreat, solar and wind are overtaking fossil fuels globally, according to two new reports. grist.org/internationa... #Renewables #Energy #Climate #Solar #Wind #Batteries

Two graphs in today’s FT. Notice the UK’s position on both graphs.

The EU says it has a new problem when it comes to artificial intelligence: Companies are not using it. But Brussels is looking to solve this.

Not sure people realize how INSANELY DRAINING data centers will be on our planet. If you imagine data centers as their own country, they'll rank fourth in global electricity use by 2035 — outranked only by China, India, and the U.S. Read this in @bloomberg.com👇 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

There's a very nice new report from @climateanalytics.org on precisely this: "Hard to abate" has become its own form of subtle climate delay --->> @billhare.bsky.social @cindybax.bsky.social ca1-clm.edcdn.com/assets/Clima...

Renewables have overtaken coal in the global electricity mix for the first time, @ember-energy.org has found www.linkedin.com/pulse/renewa...

New data shows the ways millions of people have integrated AI into their everyday lives. Also, it suggests that for now at least, AI is an individual productivity tool — both at work and in our personal lives — rather than the broader workplace disrupter many in Big Tech predicted. on.ft.com/47cKBVN

It's the main news on two Dutch newspapers today. The largest demo of this century in the Netherlands. For Gaza, and against government's complicity in Israel's genocide there.

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NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5). An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸 (🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

78% of the Dutch is now negative about Israel, mostly very negative. 19% is positive, mostly 'somewhat' positive. (neutral/ don't know not included)

Food must be taken seriously as an environmental problem. It uses ~38% of Earth’s land, drives ~70% of water use, and emits ~22-34% of greenhouse gas pollution globally. And beef and dairy alone drive a huge proportion of this. But there are solutions. Lots of them. go.ted.com/jonathanfoley24

Food causes 22-34% of climate change. But it only gets 4% of the media coverage. Why? Neglect. Misunderstanding. And a hell of a lot of greenwashing.

“.. His conclusion is very stark: not just that an economy already at stall speed will fall into recession as both the data-center and wealth effects plateau, but that they’ll reverse, just as in the dot-com bubble did ..” @marketwatch.com www.marketwatch.com/story/the-ai...

Denmark's military intelligence reports that Russian naval forces have aimed weapons at Danish warships and helicopters, disrupted navigation systems in key maritime straits, and even sailed collision courses, all clear provocations.

When I was a teenager there was a bus direct from my hometown in Germany to London - we had a British army base, and this direct bus connection was one of the benefits of that. One summer I went on that bus to go volunteer in an old people's home in Southend-on-Sea. I had just turned 18 and was... 🧵

exactly like the Chinese surveillance state

How serious is the Russian threat to ? Even after Ukraine, differences on this question persist within the alliance. The biggest change is that the United States has joined the cautious camp, and is no longer willing to beat when you’re threatened. My take. observer.co.uk/news/interna...

Frightening analysis of the use of Facebook and radicalisation of people to far right beliefs. This also reminds me of analysis of social media networks in enhanced exposure of anti vaccine rhetoric.

Renewables are winning — because they are cheaper and better. Trump has little to no effect so far. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"Today, we clear a soccer field’s worth of tropical forest every six seconds, a loss dramatically worsened by humanity’s growing hunger for meat" Wean ourselves off meat now, or the switch to a Pliocene climate that's locked in will do it for us www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“I’m a climate scientist. Trump’s U.N. address is a fire hose of misinformation” | My new op-ed in the @sfchronicle.com: www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open... #ScienceUnderSiege

On why Trump is wrong on climate, renewable energy, the next economic growth cycle, on powering data centres cost-efficiently, and on geo-economics. Very good by the FT‘s Gillian Tett. on.ft.com/3KkjVcU

The neatest and most hilarious debunking of Trump's climate disinformation you'll see this week, courtesy of @emorwee.bsky.social 😎 open.substack.com/pub/heated/p...

Service post for 'realistic', 'conservative' governments: "1 Euro invested in climate protection yields a return of between €1.8 and €4.8."

Inspired by this + fossil giant Eni's fusion investments to update my 'greenwashing habitable zone' conceptualisation of what techs seem to lend themselves to being the most useful for bullshitty climate delay Welcome to the zone, fusion, you finally made the cut Top right = The Altman Expanse

Poland never wants to be invaded by Russia again, so it has built the biggest army of any EU country. But as Putin knows, it has a different vulnerability: its split and distrustful society. That's where he's striking. Me @financialtimes.com after my recent visit to Poland on.ft.com/3IrSfC8

meanwhile, some US and European VC firms travel to China, and realize it's already "game over" and that lots of clean tech in the west is "uninvestable" bc China has already won www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

excellent Tooze analysis on the truly history-making China-led clean tech transformation washing over the world adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

Antifascisten worden door extreemrechts verdacht gemaakt. Het waren de antifascisten die tijdens de Nazi dictatuur (1933 in Duitsland, 1940 in Nederland-1945) de strijd aangingen met de nazi's. Velen moesten dat met de dood bekopen. 𝑨𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒇𝒂𝒔𝒄𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏. 𝑯𝒆𝒍𝒅𝒆𝒏 𝒊𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒕 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒛𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒆𝒈𝒆𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒕 𝒌𝒘𝒂𝒂𝒅. Deel 2

ICE vehicles waste a whopping 80% of the energy in their fuel. Electric vehicles are propelled by entirely different mechanisms. Energy enters the vehicle as electricity, which directly powers the drivetrain: EVs need not convert one form of energy to another resulting in much higher efficiency.

Post from @energyinnovation.org's @silviomarcacci.bsky.social "highlights 30 clean tech 'moonshots' along with 60 'innovation imperatives' identified by the Climate Tech Atlas in energy-intensive sectors that could unlock a net zero future." thepowerline.substack.com/p/30-clean-t... 🔌💡

Worrying development in the Netherlands.

Finland’s housing-first outperforms on cost. #econsky

What can we do against the rise of the hateful, anti-democratic far-right? Stay informed, speak out, support democratic parties and humanitarian organizations, vote! And more here:

🇦🇺 AUSTRALIAN DOCS IN GAZA: “70-80% of our patients are kids and pregnant women… It’s a nightmare… bombing after bombing… We’re making this video because we could die at any moment… Can someone please stop this terror and horror?” Full: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMRReCVY/

I spoke with the wonderful @jessdavis.bsky.social about why fatalism makes me so intensely mad, and how most of it comes from the fossil fuel industry, or its lobbyists, defenders and acolytes the whole piece on collapse is a great read -->>>> www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

The day after Dutch parliament voted to get Antifa activists earmarked as 'terrorist organization', copying Trump, the Fa side shows its colors at an anti-immigrant rally in The Hague: windows smashed at D66 (liberal) party office, violence against police. nos.nl/l/2583298

While Trump is attacking the free press with all possible means, Dutch public news site @nos writes that he's "successfully reigning in American media"...

💯. The free market alone won't save us. Private capital still prefers scarce oil and gas—on which it can make long-term monopolistic profits—to abundant renewables on which you cannot. Political funding & disinformation keep the playing field tipped towards fossil fuels. Only Gov can change this.

A 𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘥𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦 from Ember, showing exactly how electrotech is demolishing fossil fuels through 1) physics 2) economics and 3) geopolitics.

This paper shows that children are significantly less likely to enter the academic track if they come from a low socio-economic status family. A low-intensity mentoring program can improve long-run education outcomes of disadvantaged children and reduce inequality of opportunity.

Fun article about “outsider” scientists and their breakthroughs. “Academia filters most funding, publishing, and hiring decisions through senior insiders, which favors ideas within existing paradigms.” worksinprogress.co/issue/why-sc...

‘almost all the high-quality data that could improve an AI agent’s performance has been consumed’ Seeing more pieces recently worrying that generative AI is starting to get diminishing gains on.ft.com/4nvInGq