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Trump officials cancel major solar project in latest hit to renewable energy

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Rasmus E. Benestad @brasmus.bsky.social · 14h

Jeg tror at den amerikanske administrasjonen er i lomma på korrupte oljeoligarker som gjør alt for å holde på sin makt og sine privilegier, samtidig som de driter i våre barn og barnebarns generasjoner. Håper ICJ tar tak i det. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Esmeralda 7 in Nevada would have produced enough energy to power 2m homes

European far right follows Trump in calling for antifa to be declared terrorists

Rasmus E. Benestad @brasmus.bsky.social · 14h

Fascist creep back into Europe? I thought we had learned our lessons. Same thing happened with terrorists in 2001, when inexperienced America tried to teach experienced Europe. How to resist? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Netherlands and Hungary move towards designation as draft resolution reportedly backed by 79 MEPs in 20 countries

Tony Blair met Jeffrey Epstein while prime minister

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 1d

Tony Blair met with the convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in London during his time as prime minister, it has emerged

www.thenational.scot

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 1d

Milankovitch cycles—infinitesimal shifts in the planet's rotational axis that allowed marginally more sunlight to hit the planet over millennia—repeatedly brought the Earth out of its ice ages.

It was mad to think that 1.3C of heating in, like, a century wouldn't totally destabilize our climate.

David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells.bsky.social · 1d

“Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed as the region warms, with new seeps being discovered at an ‘astonishing rate,’ scientists have found.” www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/c...

Scientists discovered something alarming seeping out from beneath the ocean around Antarctica | CNN

Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed, with new seeps being discovered at an “astonishing rate,” raising fears that future global warming predictions may have been und...

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Rasmus E. Benestad @brasmus.bsky.social · 1d

Stupid not to impeach when there was a chance - www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Page one of the authoritarian playbook’: how Trump and allies are exploiting Kirk’s killing

The president and his Maga allies have used the rightwing influencer’s killing to justify attacks on critics, experts say

Rasmus E. Benestad @brasmus.bsky.social · 1d

Det ee jo en skandale at politiet pågriper demonstranter mot den veldig kontroversielle fotballkampen.

Weather tracker: South-east China swelters in summer-like heat

Rasmus E. Benestad @brasmus.bsky.social · 2d

www.theguardian.com/environment/... - heavier rainfall is both due to increased temperatures and the Clapyron Clausius effect and a more uneven dristribution of rainfall (more concentrated in time and space - DOI:10.1038/s41612-024-00794-z )

Inland areas have neared 40C, while in northern China a cold air mass clashed with warmth to produce heavy rain

klassekampen.no/utgave/2025-...

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Rasmus E. Benestad @brasmus.bsky.social · 3d

Idiotiske påstander

Fredag 3. oktober spør Jørn Siljeholm i Klassekampen om det var så dumt det Trump sa til FNs hovedforsamling 23. september. Ja, han sa dumme ting om k...

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Rasmus E. Benestad @brasmus.bsky.social · 5d

www.forskersonen.no/forskning-kr...

Øredøvende taushet om forskning i valgkampen

KRONIKK: Heller ikke i år ble forskning og høyere utdanning et tema i valgdebatten.

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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 9d

Italian unions launch general strike to support Gaza flotilla - as they promised they would if anyone so much as touches the flotilla

The flotilla is on its way to deliver food and medicine to children being deliberately starved by Israel in its genocidal series of grotesque and barbaric war crimes

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 9d

The maximum global mean surface temperature (GMST) was 15.48°C for the 1850-1900 pre-industrial period. In other words, the GMST never broke 15.50°C.

This graphic shows the number of times per year the GMST broke 15.50°C, from 1940 to 2024.

2025 is at 149 and counting.

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 9d

Your 'moment of doom' for Oct. 3, 2025 ~ Yes, and?

"As the world’s climate gets hotter, warming ocean waters combine with warmer air that can hold much more moisture, to create stronger and more destructive precipitation events."

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Climate change is messing with global wind speeds, impacting planetary health

Climate change is disturbing wind patterns across the globe in dramatic ways. And when combined with land-use change and desertification, these changes are spawning immense sand and dust storms that p...

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Rasmus E. Benestad @brasmus.bsky.social · 9d

Satan! Jeg trodde at helvete allerede har brutt løs... Er det snakk om Helvete v2.0? www.nrk.no/urix/trump-g...

Trump gir Hamas frist til søndag kveld til å godta fredsplanen

USAs president Donald Trump sier at en avtale med Hamas må være inngått innen søndag kveld, hvis ikke lover han et helvete for dem slik ingen har sett før.

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 11d

The Damage Done by @marianneguenot.bsky.social

Now out in Nature Medicine, featuring analysis from #GrantWitness and #SCIMaP and impacts on grants, clinical trials, patients, discovery, collaboration, and careers.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The damage done - Nature Medicine

When clinical trials are suddenly halted by US funding cuts, there are repercussions for investigators and patients, and they do not stop at borders.

www.nature.com

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Rasmus E. Benestad @brasmus.bsky.social · 11d

Should ban the word 'crime' to make sure there is no crime. Much ceaper than sending the military to cities with high **** www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US energy department cracks down on workers’ use of climate crisis language

Efficiency employees reportedly told to avoid ‘climate change’ and similar terms in their work in latest clampdown

Rasmus E. Benestad @brasmus.bsky.social · 13d

‘I couldn’t look’: European farmers on losing crops as the industry collides with worsening drought

Global heating means annual drought losses across Europe could reach €17.5bn. Shipping and power generation are also being affected by low water levels

Rasmus E. Benestad @brasmus.bsky.social · 13d

Environmental damage is putting European way of life at risk, says report

EU officials warn climate breakdown and wildlife loss ‘are ruining ecosystems that underpin the economy’

Rasmus E. Benestad @brasmus.bsky.social · 14d

Maybe the world needs to introduce CO2-debt on par with financial debt?

Rasmus E. Benestad @brasmus.bsky.social · 14d

‘Huge energy challenges’: how can India make the leap to become a green, clean country?

As deadly heatwaves become more frequent, demand for life-saving cooling is further straining India’s generation capacity

Rasmus E. Benestad @brasmus.bsky.social · 14d

‘Huge energy challenges’: how can India make the leap to become a green, clean country?

As deadly heatwaves become more frequent, demand for life-saving cooling is further straining India’s generation capacity

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Rasmus E. Benestad @brasmus.bsky.social · 14d

‘I don’t care’: Colombia president Petro hits back after US revokes his visa

State department said it would revoke Petro’s visa after he joined a pro-Palestinian rally in New York, where he called for US soldiers to ‘disobey’ Trump

Zuckerberg hailed AI ‘superintelligence’. Then his smart glasses failed on stage | Matthew Cantor

Rasmus E. Benestad @brasmus.bsky.social · 14d

Not really surprised. Is AI/ML a bubble? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Meta CEO fumbled a demo of his AI Ray-Bans, giving us hope that the robots might be too dumb to take over

‘Free speech for me, not for thee’: how Trump’s censorship blitz is splitting the right

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Rasmus E. Benestad @brasmus.bsky.social · 14d

The sad irony is that people who voted for this administration wanted less government and more civil liberty get the opposite and a tyrant instead: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i.... It shows that is pays to be knoweldgeable and ignorance is dangerous.

After Charlie Kirk’s killing, the US president has unleashed an assault on free speech. Some conservatives are questioning his razor sharp U-turn

Moldova heads to the polls in tense vote that could steer country closer to EU or Russia

Rasmus E. Benestad @brasmus.bsky.social · 14d

Russia should taste its own medicine: shhot down its own propaganda and reveal the real state of affairs. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

President Maia Sandu says parliamentary vote is Moldova’s ‘most consequential election’ and warns against falling deeper into Moscow’s orbit