Bettina Schwarzen
@bettinaschwarzen.bsky.social
21st June is #ShowYourStripes Day
Warming stripes credit: Professor Ed Hawkins (University of Reading), Get yours: https://showyourstripes.info
Warming stripes credit: Professor Ed Hawkins (University of Reading), Get yours: https://showyourstripes.info
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This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.
It’s Russian.
It’s Russian.
November 24, 2025 at 9:29 AM
This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.
It’s Russian.
It’s Russian.
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This is a remarkable paper on the climate-induced heatwave death in Europe and how they will increase in a warming world.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Increasing risk of mass human heat mortality if historical weather patterns recur - Nature Climate Change
The authors couple calculations of historical heatwave intensity at present and future global temperatures with exposure–response functions to quantify mortality from extreme heat events in Europe. Th...
www.nature.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:10 AM
This is a remarkable paper on the climate-induced heatwave death in Europe and how they will increase in a warming world.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Do the ideas associated with Trumpism lead somewhere, or are they a dead end? Can they stand on their own, without a reality star to animate them?
www.newyorker.com/culture/open...
www.newyorker.com/culture/open...
Does MAGA Have Ideas?
A new book traces the intellectual origins of Trumpism—straight into the void.
www.newyorker.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Do the ideas associated with Trumpism lead somewhere, or are they a dead end? Can they stand on their own, without a reality star to animate them?
www.newyorker.com/culture/open...
www.newyorker.com/culture/open...
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it would indeed seem that elites are capturing much of our politics
In the past decade, billionaires have been more empowered than ever before to spend money to influence American elections.
Here are the billionaires who make up the top 20 political spenders:
Here are the billionaires who make up the top 20 political spenders:
The top 20 billionaires influencing American politics
The group has spent nearly $5 billion on elections since 2015.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
it would indeed seem that elites are capturing much of our politics
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You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
November 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Es gibt einen Crash, vor dem nur wenige warnen. Er hat mit Unwettern zu tun und ist so verheerend wie alle anderen. Der Ausgangspunkt liegt wieder in den USA.
Klimarisiken in der Finanzwirtschaft: Vom Feuersturm zur Finanzkrise
Es gibt einen Crash, vor dem nur wenige warnen. Er hat mit Unwettern zu tun und ist so verheerend wie alle anderen. Der Ausgangspunkt liegt wieder in den USA.
www.zeit.de
November 21, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Es gibt einen Crash, vor dem nur wenige warnen. Er hat mit Unwettern zu tun und ist so verheerend wie alle anderen. Der Ausgangspunkt liegt wieder in den USA.
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Researching this week's column, I stumbled across something that amazed me:
the near-absence of reliable data about climate impacts over most of the
world. Due to the rich world's failure to fund research. We don't know
because our governments don't care. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
the near-absence of reliable data about climate impacts over most of the
world. Due to the rich world's failure to fund research. We don't know
because our governments don't care. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
There’s a catastrophic black hole in our climate data – and it’s a gift to deniers | George Monbiot
Climate sceptics tell us that more people die of extreme cold than extreme heat. What’s the truth? asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Researching this week's column, I stumbled across something that amazed me:
the near-absence of reliable data about climate impacts over most of the
world. Due to the rich world's failure to fund research. We don't know
because our governments don't care. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
the near-absence of reliable data about climate impacts over most of the
world. Due to the rich world's failure to fund research. We don't know
because our governments don't care. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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"Amazon now produces more carbon emissions than it removes from the atmosphere, moving closer to a “tipping point” after which it will be impossible to save the world’s largest rainforest. “We need urgently to get to zero deforestation in all Brazilian biomes, especially the Amazon,”"
The Race to Save the Amazon: Top Brazilian Scientist Says Rainforest Is at “Tipping Point”
As we broadcast from the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, we are joined by one of Brazil’s most prominent scientists, Carlos Nobre, who says the Amazon now produces more carbon emissions than it...
www.democracynow.org
November 20, 2025 at 4:47 PM
"Amazon now produces more carbon emissions than it removes from the atmosphere, moving closer to a “tipping point” after which it will be impossible to save the world’s largest rainforest. “We need urgently to get to zero deforestation in all Brazilian biomes, especially the Amazon,”"
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First electric cars and buses, now trucks: in the past we were often told that electric trucks would not be feasible.
But the market is picking up speed and electric trucks have become a reality. Expectations are for significant market expansion in the coming years.
But the market is picking up speed and electric trucks have become a reality. Expectations are for significant market expansion in the coming years.
November 20, 2025 at 12:11 PM
First electric cars and buses, now trucks: in the past we were often told that electric trucks would not be feasible.
But the market is picking up speed and electric trucks have become a reality. Expectations are for significant market expansion in the coming years.
But the market is picking up speed and electric trucks have become a reality. Expectations are for significant market expansion in the coming years.
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#COP30
Dangerous #ClimateChange
Understanding the Threat
James Hansen, 24 Oct 2025
drive.google.com/file/d/1NGOp...
Dangerous #ClimateChange
Understanding the Threat
James Hansen, 24 Oct 2025
drive.google.com/file/d/1NGOp...
November 19, 2025 at 3:29 PM
#COP30
Dangerous #ClimateChange
Understanding the Threat
James Hansen, 24 Oct 2025
drive.google.com/file/d/1NGOp...
Dangerous #ClimateChange
Understanding the Threat
James Hansen, 24 Oct 2025
drive.google.com/file/d/1NGOp...
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Trump has been secretly working with Putin to create a stitch-up peace deal which they will try to force on Ukraine.
As for Europe: “We don’t really care,” a senior official told Politico.
As for Europe: “We don’t really care,” a senior official told Politico.
November 19, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Trump has been secretly working with Putin to create a stitch-up peace deal which they will try to force on Ukraine.
As for Europe: “We don’t really care,” a senior official told Politico.
As for Europe: “We don’t really care,” a senior official told Politico.
Today 62 faith institutions announced their divestment from fossil fuel companies, ...(acting) on the urgent need for fossil fuel phase out, given the harmful climate, biodiversity and human rights impacts of extracting, transporting and burning fossil fuels.
laudatosimovement.org/divestment/
laudatosimovement.org/divestment/
laudatosimovement.org
November 18, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Today 62 faith institutions announced their divestment from fossil fuel companies, ...(acting) on the urgent need for fossil fuel phase out, given the harmful climate, biodiversity and human rights impacts of extracting, transporting and burning fossil fuels.
laudatosimovement.org/divestment/
laudatosimovement.org/divestment/
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In der Wikipedia häufen sich Quellen, die es nicht gibt – weil immer öfter die KI, nun ja, "hilft". Sie bedroht damit das Erfolgsprinzip: menschliche Intelligenz.
Wikipedia: Als die Wikipedia begann zu halluzinieren
In der Wikipedia häufen sich Quellen, die es nicht gibt – weil immer öfter die KI, nun ja, "hilft". Sie bedroht damit das Erfolgsprinzip: menschliche Intelligenz.
www.zeit.de
November 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM
In der Wikipedia häufen sich Quellen, die es nicht gibt – weil immer öfter die KI, nun ja, "hilft". Sie bedroht damit das Erfolgsprinzip: menschliche Intelligenz.
I'm looking for, ignited in millions:
a moment of clarity, from deep inside our heads or our hearts,
to radically change course for climate, nature and humanity. No looking back, no prevarication. Clarity.
We all have that power within us, if we keep ourselves open to inspiration.
a moment of clarity, from deep inside our heads or our hearts,
to radically change course for climate, nature and humanity. No looking back, no prevarication. Clarity.
We all have that power within us, if we keep ourselves open to inspiration.
November 17, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I'm looking for, ignited in millions:
a moment of clarity, from deep inside our heads or our hearts,
to radically change course for climate, nature and humanity. No looking back, no prevarication. Clarity.
We all have that power within us, if we keep ourselves open to inspiration.
a moment of clarity, from deep inside our heads or our hearts,
to radically change course for climate, nature and humanity. No looking back, no prevarication. Clarity.
We all have that power within us, if we keep ourselves open to inspiration.
Ich finde das absolut nicht normal. Und das sage ich, weil wir nur dann Errungenschaften wie Meinungsfreiheit und Respekt an Bullies verlieren, wenn wir aufhören, sie als das zu bezeichnen, was sie sind: unnormal, unanständig und zersetzend.
November 16, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Ich finde das absolut nicht normal. Und das sage ich, weil wir nur dann Errungenschaften wie Meinungsfreiheit und Respekt an Bullies verlieren, wenn wir aufhören, sie als das zu bezeichnen, was sie sind: unnormal, unanständig und zersetzend.
Listening recommendation
www.overshootpod.com
@laurielaybourn.bsky.social does a very good job of translating "all that climate stuff" into our very own realities.
www.overshootpod.com
@laurielaybourn.bsky.social does a very good job of translating "all that climate stuff" into our very own realities.
Overshoot podcast – a world beyond 1.5C
The world missed its goal for tackling climate change. What happens next? In this four-part documentary series, we explore the huge challenges that come from 1.5°C overshoot. We meet the people with ...
www.overshootpod.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Listening recommendation
www.overshootpod.com
@laurielaybourn.bsky.social does a very good job of translating "all that climate stuff" into our very own realities.
www.overshootpod.com
@laurielaybourn.bsky.social does a very good job of translating "all that climate stuff" into our very own realities.
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Read this ⬇️
I came to this country as a child refugee. No English, no certainty, no idea what my life could become. Britain gave me refuge.
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 15, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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If you read my stuff, you know I regularly go on about the Far Right being an interconnected, global threat that transcends borders.
Diplomatically unprecedented.
The German far-right opposition has reportedly been invited to Washington for an official strategy session with Republicans in the US Congress.
The German far-right opposition has reportedly been invited to Washington for an official strategy session with Republicans in the US Congress.
November 15, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Ist jeder Mensch in der Bundesregierung sich dieser immensen Verantwortung bewusst? Frage für meine Kinder.
November 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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In Sonntagsreden angeblich hinter dem Pariser Klimaabkommen stehen, aber in den Taten die Abrissbirne am Klimaschutz ansetzen?
Heute könnt ihr zeigen, was ihr davon haltet, in Berlin und vielen weiteren Orten. Die Mehrheit der Menschen will mehr Klimaschutz!
table.media/berlin/news/...
Heute könnt ihr zeigen, was ihr davon haltet, in Berlin und vielen weiteren Orten. Die Mehrheit der Menschen will mehr Klimaschutz!
table.media/berlin/news/...
November 14, 2025 at 8:26 AM
In Sonntagsreden angeblich hinter dem Pariser Klimaabkommen stehen, aber in den Taten die Abrissbirne am Klimaschutz ansetzen?
Heute könnt ihr zeigen, was ihr davon haltet, in Berlin und vielen weiteren Orten. Die Mehrheit der Menschen will mehr Klimaschutz!
table.media/berlin/news/...
Heute könnt ihr zeigen, was ihr davon haltet, in Berlin und vielen weiteren Orten. Die Mehrheit der Menschen will mehr Klimaschutz!
table.media/berlin/news/...
@drkatemarvel.bsky.social I very much liked the webinar with Project Drawdown today, thank you!
November 13, 2025 at 8:09 PM
@drkatemarvel.bsky.social I very much liked the webinar with Project Drawdown today, thank you!
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Damit Apple, Amazon und Co. hierzulande Steuern zahlen, ersann der Fiskus eine spezielle Regel. Die soll nun leise verschwinden. Ein teures Geschenk an die Tech-Branche.
Finanzministerium: Wie das Finanzministerium Tech-Giganten Milliarden schenkt
Damit Apple, Amazon und Co. hierzulande Steuern zahlen, ersann der Fiskus eine spezielle Regel. Die soll nun leise verschwinden. Ein teures Geschenk an die Tech-Branche.
www.zeit.de
November 13, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Damit Apple, Amazon und Co. hierzulande Steuern zahlen, ersann der Fiskus eine spezielle Regel. Die soll nun leise verschwinden. Ein teures Geschenk an die Tech-Branche.
Best one-liner yet on why appeasing the right (or anyone, really, in the long term) will always backfire:
"basically, the strategy of minimising the attackable surface doesn’t take into account that the other side also gets a say in deciding what’s attackable."
open.substack.com/pub/backofmi...
"basically, the strategy of minimising the attackable surface doesn’t take into account that the other side also gets a say in deciding what’s attackable."
open.substack.com/pub/backofmi...
the generalised problem factory
taking opps research seriously
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Best one-liner yet on why appeasing the right (or anyone, really, in the long term) will always backfire:
"basically, the strategy of minimising the attackable surface doesn’t take into account that the other side also gets a say in deciding what’s attackable."
open.substack.com/pub/backofmi...
"basically, the strategy of minimising the attackable surface doesn’t take into account that the other side also gets a say in deciding what’s attackable."
open.substack.com/pub/backofmi...
If you find your source of information serving things with
"there is zero, less than zero, stress put on the relation between those two “sides,” or their histories, or their sponsors, or their relative evidentiary authority, or any of it"
ditch them. And be better.
"there is zero, less than zero, stress put on the relation between those two “sides,” or their histories, or their sponsors, or their relative evidentiary authority, or any of it"
ditch them. And be better.
This is a scorching article on the absolute state of The New York Times, and much of the rest of the media.
Not just the billionaire media, note, but also the billionaire-*compliant* media, which both-sides every issue with purchased junktank talking points.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Not just the billionaire media, note, but also the billionaire-*compliant* media, which both-sides every issue with purchased junktank talking points.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
If you find your source of information serving things with
"there is zero, less than zero, stress put on the relation between those two “sides,” or their histories, or their sponsors, or their relative evidentiary authority, or any of it"
ditch them. And be better.
"there is zero, less than zero, stress put on the relation between those two “sides,” or their histories, or their sponsors, or their relative evidentiary authority, or any of it"
ditch them. And be better.