"It is now clear that, for Europe, decarbonization is no longer just a climate imperative; it is a matter of energy security ... policy approaches that balance the acute needs of the moment ...with the longer-term interests of the 🇪🇺 economy: decarbonization, competitiveness, and productivity growth"

Climate has almost disappeared from our conversation. But it remains the most pressing challenge of our times. Last week the WMO said the planet is “more out of balance than at any time in observed history.” Energy security and climate security are not competing priorities.

UK currently generating well over 100% of power with low carbon sources - 90.6% from wind, solar and hydro and 13.7% from nuclear. Unsurprisingly electricity prices are negative. The weather really showing up to highlight the way forward in the face of yet another fossil fuel driven crisis.

Afskaf palantir må også få stemmer på europæisk plan. Skriv under her ⬇️ #purgepalantir #stoppalantir #dkpol

This by Rheinmetall CEO is precisely the arrogance that will come to haunt 🇩🇪. It was arrogance vis-à-vis Chinese competitors that helped bring German carmakers in the ditch they are in. And it‘s this type of arrogance vis-à-vis lessons learned by Ukrainians that will cost us.

Lita Albuquerque, Southern Cross from Stellar Axis: Antarctica, Ross Ice Shelf, 2006 #Womensart

På en nylig tur til Ukraine besøgte jeg en af de kraftværker, Rusland har bombet sønder og sammen. Trypilska blev senest ramt tre dage før jeg landede. Nu er turbine hallen stille. Og det er ikke sikkert den kommer i gang igen før næste vinter. #dkpol #dkforsvar

I have been a huge LLM sceptic, but after testing @mistralai.bsky.social 's #LeChat (bonus points for sustainability, privacy + EU based), I'm actually impressed. Some interesting thoughts by @jburnmurdoch.ft.com : Social media is populist and polarising; AI may be the opposite -

Better go into your github settings and disable this 👇

(With the important caveat that I hate Goodwin and everything he stands for...) I don't think there's anything intrinsically wrong with using AI/LLMs for writing... as long as you don't use it stupidly. Here's how I use it: takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/how-ai-has...

Since they are wearing suits, brush their teeth and can string together sentences without grammatical mistakes it is tempting to forget how many Americans are completely nuts.

Australians now have better mobility into the EU than Brits “Under the new scheme, Australians can live and work in Europe for up to four years without needing a job offer before arrival.” Second class citizens in our own continent www.skynews.com.au/lifestyle/tr...

"The full delivery took about 30 minutes. For hours afterward, pairs of whales held the baby above the water until it was able to swim…What struck the researchers was how many mother, sister & daughter whales united to support the new calf, even ones that weren’t related." apnews.com/article/sper...

In spite of all the talk of Claude Code and Codex meaning the end of humans writing code, software job adverts are actually going up, according to @jburnmurdoch.ft.com's crunching of millions of job ads for this week's The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/7325...

Og ude i verden sker der ting og sager, mens #dkpol er optaget af at tælle stemmer og mandater, og blot skal have tiden til at gå indtil de skal på sommerferie i maj (og den varer til oktober). Mens USA flår verden i stykker går man i DK op i bogstavskombinationer. pov.international/iran-tager-o...

Hello again. It's 1492 - no, not the year Columbus "discovered" the Americas, but Day 1492 of Russia's illegal all-out war on Ukraine. After Trump's traitorous behaviour Ukrainians can be forgiven for rueing Columbus' decision to sail west 534 years ago! Here's the daily🧵

The pace tof battlefield development in #Ukraine is astonishing. It also raises some very uncomfortable scenarios Autonomous swarms are the future of drone warfare 🎁 www.economist.com/science-and-...

We are SO behind industry with hyperspectral satellites. Like 4 years till launch and use? Whew.

Very interanalysianabout what AI + LlMs mean for software and tech jobs. Chimes very much with how I see science requiring a lot of programming going too. The AI Shift: Will software engineers survive agentic AI? - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Ongelofelijk: in minder dan drie dagen € 15.000 voor kraamhulp in Ukraine. Al meer dan 300 mensen doneerden. You may say I'm a dreamer... maar dit geeft mij hoop en energie. whydonate.com/nl/fundraisi...

Eel smuggling was in the news again yesterday, and I got some questions. Like: "WFT?" & "Why? & "How?" So let's take a look. Eel smuggling is maybe the biggest wildlife crime going. It's a c. 4 billion a year black market industry. Interpol has called it "Europe's ivory trade." 1/7

Vote well Denmark...

It’s done. American taxpayers will pay $1 billion to TotalEnergies to *not* build new electricity generation capacity in America. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/c...

You think snowcover is good in the Alps? ❄️ Swiss glaciers are lagging behind, with snow depths below the 2010-2020 average! Familiar story by now! 😭 Next summer influenced by El Niño (🔥-than-average), final figure will likely once again be close to record lows! Data @matthias-huss.bsky.social

Sorry, medier, men når I vælger "udlændinge" som emne i partilederdebatten i stedet for klima, sundhed, skole, sikkerhedspolitik, velfærd eller 100 andre ting som har større indflydelse på vores dagligdag, så giver I racisterne plads og indflydelse.

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Despite the incessant pull of big tech towards large walled gardens on the web rather than free spirited individual content, there are those who push back. Kagi (the search engine folk) have a Small Web initiative - a catalogue of smaller scale human content blog.kagi.com/small-web-up...

"The European Union covers a largely urbanised continent, but it sometimes feels like a farming-subsidy club with a flag and a parliament. Around a third of the bloc’s budget goes to farmers". www.economist.com/europe/2026/...

CO₂ removal should not be used for luxury emissions. Moving a traveling circus around the globe and all the other activities associated with F1 are definitely luxury emissions.

In more Atlantic-leaning European capitals, the prospect of standing alone without America has prompted distress. In Paris, which maintains a fully independent nuclear deterrent and builds its own fighter jets, it feels like vindication

University of Copenhagen is hiring for 9 new positions! Individual job details below!👇 #ScienceJobs

The Cheshire cat in this tree was watching me when I went out to set up my telescope 🔭

I remain slightly nostalgic about the part of UK I come from, but upon returning it feels ever more alien. But is #TheTownIGrewUpIn diverging from the rest of Europe (where I now live), or is it just diverging from my memories of it 30 years ago when I lived there?

"Imagine being told, amid the Opec crises of the 1970s, that one region’s fossil fuels would still have this hold over humankind half a century in the future" The new old world - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Man I bought this was only a US problem! 😲 Our brilliant local library had a table where you could borrow books banned in other countries: looks like it needs a boost!

I am a little puzzled about the panic - yes it's stupid and unfair, but I had a scramble *last year* to get my kids UK passports, knowing that this was coming in. I am unsure how I found this out however, perhaps I was lucky?

@aaronsmith333.bsky.social: "This juxtaposition is crazy. Diesel near me just hit $3.59/L - about $280 to fill a Ford Ranger. At the same time, renewables via the grid were supplying my house at 5c/kWh today. At these rates, one Ranger fill-up costs more than charging my EV for a year."

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The recent increase in Antarctic Ice Sheet is driven by enhanced precipitation from frequent atmospheric rivers, stronger westerlies, and reduced sea ice, which together offset ice loss from outlet glacier discharge. @marlenkolbe.bsky.social @ruthmottram.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s43...

If you've ever wondered what would happen if a response to a review was filled with really bad puns and references to Star Wars, I’ve got you covered. I just hope the reviewers rise to the occasion because I think we can do something really special here.

Most climate solutions are local, nitty gritty decisions and not international treaties or tech revolutions. I suspect this lack of glamor is how we end up with bonkers shit like “launch mirrors into space to reflect sunlight” or “build a giant wall around the Antarctic ice sheet”.

I'm really, really, really tired I have not known economic growth in my adult life and just when I got a tiny bit of optimism some mad bastard starts a war.

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

My @dmidk.bsky.social colleague Abraham Torres Alavez did masses of simulations showing importance of winter sea ice to snowfall over Antarctica + especially the ice shelves. But main message: warmer atmosphere means a lot more snow - just as earlier scientists including the IPCC foresaw. 🥼🧪❄️⛏️⚒️🌊

I'll be talking about this and other things @esaclimate.bsky.social colocation meeting next week - in case you're there and want to say hello!

🚨 new paper alert🚨 Antarctica, after net losing ice through the noughts and teens started to level off and gain ice in spite of increasing discharge The brilliant @marlenkolbe.bsky.social led this paper showing atmospheric rivers, winds + sea ice explain how + why - but will it continue?

About a thousand people in front of me at the library voting early for next week's election. Danish democracy clearly in rude health...

Rusland sender eksperter i manipulation. JD Vance tager på støttevisit. Regeringen producerer desinformation og skræmmekampagner. Der er i sandhed lagt op til et møgbeskidt valg når ungarerne den 12. april går til stemmeurnerne. Læs eller lyt her: www.europanyt.dk/p/desinforma...

For the morning team: We're looking for scientists excited to work at the cutting edge of Polar science with the latest high resolution climate models and Earth Observation data. Funding support available for travel, accomodation + food costs covered 🧪🥼🌊⛏️⚒️❄️