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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 8h

Record high temperatures are currently being set across the northernmost portions of the #Arctic. In fact, it is effectively ice-free on the Atlantic side of the Arctic all the way up to about 85°N latitude! This includes record low sea ice around Svalbard.

Graphic by zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe...

Line graph time series of 2025's daily 2-m temperature in the Arctic compared to each year from 1958 through 2024. There is a long-term warming trend for every day of the year. There is also large interannual variability and a clear seasonal cycle.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

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Håkon Nordhagen @hakonnordhagen.bsky.social · 2h

Black Mirror episode «Eulogy»

Håkon Nordhagen @hakonnordhagen.bsky.social · 2h

Saw «house of dynamite», and couldn’t help think of the similarities between the ‘weapon race’ and ‘carbon race’.

Perhaps a «carbon jockey» might do.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12h

We have truly not yet figured out how to cope with a person or institution that is "aware" of climate change, "accepts the science", but then decides to continue actively worsening it anyway

We don't even have a word or a phrase for this!

theconversation.com/mark-carneys...

Mark Carney’s climate inaction is at odds with his awareness of climate change’s existential threat

Climate action no longer seems to be a priority for Prime Minister Mark Carney, despite his previous activism. This is bad news for Canadians and the climate.

theconversation.com

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Håkon Nordhagen @hakonnordhagen.bsky.social · 2h

Peter Altman and Sam Thiel.
Why do I keep mixing those two?

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Håkon Nordhagen @hakonnordhagen.bsky.social · 12h

«House of dynamite». Go and see it! I’ve never felt as terrified after a movie before.

Note, according to Annie Jacobsen, the interceptor missile hit rate is closer to a «coin toss» than portrayed in the movie. About 55%. And there are presumably only 44 of them, not 64 as said in the movie.

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 3d

My brief address at the Spanish Parliament last week, on how capitalism is driving the polycrisis, and how we can begin to align production with democratically ratified objectives.

(Part 2 below)

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Håkon Nordhagen @hakonnordhagen.bsky.social · 13h

Have they found any suitable metal to deal with the super critical water?

Hey, how do you even define the pH in the SC state, let alone if you have plenty imuprities? Nuclear knows how handle pure SC water.

We had quite some surprising material challenges/effects when we did SC conditions in 2018.

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Håkon Nordhagen @hakonnordhagen.bsky.social · 18h

One of the five members of the Nobel commitee, Mrs Clemet, leads a think-tank (Civita) that for several years have been under the umbrella of the Atlas Network. It is well known Atlas is a great fan of Machado (and «brain» behind project 2025).

www.desmog.com/atlas-econom...

Atlas Network

Atlas Network (Atlas Economic Research Foundation) Background Atlas Network is a Washington, DC-based non-profit organization that describes itself as working to support a growing network of more than...

www.desmog.com

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Håkon Nordhagen @hakonnordhagen.bsky.social · 18h

Need more evidence for the absolute lunacy among the broligarchy?

Look no further.

Thiel: «an Antichrist will emerge who will create a one-world government on the promise of something like stopping nuclear, AI or climate-induced disaster.»
www.reuters.com/world/us/pet...

Exclusive: Peter Thiel in talk on 'Antichrist' says he told Elon Musk not to give wealth to charity

Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist and early supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump, has urged long-time associate Elon Musk to quit the Giving Pledge under which signatories leave the majority of their wealth to charity.

www.reuters.com

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Håkon Nordhagen @hakonnordhagen.bsky.social · 21h

Brilliant! Isn't that the Succession theme song in the end?

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Håkon Nordhagen @hakonnordhagen.bsky.social · 22h

I wish I knew more about why and what he gave a short talk about at Cicero in Oslo in 2024!

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 22h

This is the climate equivalent of all the 'you can't say anything anymore!' comedians doing highly paid gigs at the Saudi comedy festival.

Roger Pielke Jr was always this guy, he just doesn't need to be pretend to just be interested in Ethics in Climate anymore, he can openly play dirty

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 22h

Roger Pielke Jr spent years moaning about being "cancelled", and now he's just spending his days at a fossil-funded think tank directly attacking climate scientists, and he has a fascist dictatorship to help him out now too

So seriously gross

www.eenews.net/articles/cli...

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Climatewire
Climate critics try to discredit IPCC author for linking disasters to global warming
By Lesley Clark, Sara Schonhardt, Chelsea Harvey | 10/09/2025 06:22 AM EDT

Roger Pielke Jr. and oil industry supporters are attacking climate scientist Friederike Otto, whose work has been used in lawsuits against polluters.

Friederike Otto.
Fossil fuel industry allies have launched a campaign against the inclusion of scientist Friederike Otto in the next United Nations climate review. They say her work to attribute extreme weather to human-caused global warming is bolstering climate lawsuits against oil companies. The First/Facebook | The First/Facebook

Critics of mainstream climate science and allies of the fossil fuel industry are taking aim at a prominent expert who’s helping coordinate the next United Nations review of global climate research, arguing that her work aims to bolster multibillion-dollar lawsuits against oil and gas companies.

In an August New York Post op-ed, Roger Pielke Jr., a political scientist at the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute, raised concerns about the appointment of Friederike Otto as a coordinating lead author for the seventh assessment report of the influential Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The criticism is aimed at extreme weather attribution, a popular field of research that studies whether and to what degree human-caused global warming has made an extreme weather event, such as a heat wave or heavy rain, more severe or likely to occur. Otto co-founded World Weather Attribution, which develops analyses showing climate’s role in extreme weather events.

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UN Abandons Science and Hires Climate Change Zealots Who Damn the Facts
By Roger Pielke Jr.

New York Post

August 22, 2025

Life would be impossible without experts — doctors help us when we get sick, mechanics fix our cars when they break down, farmers produce our food, to name just a few.

But we live in a time when too many of these roles have become politicized.

President Trump recently fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics after the agency released a jobs report he did not like. Similarly, soon after his election, President Joe Biden fired the climate scientist leading the US National Climate Assessment and replaced her with a communications professional.

Not surprisingly, public confidence in medical and scientific institutions has dropped overall and become more partisan as politicians increasingly select experts to advise them based on their politics rather than their willingness to call things as they see them.

The ongoing politicization of scientific institutions is not limited to politicians or to the United States.

Now we’re seeing it in the organization tasked with periodically assessing climate science under the United Nations, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which distills the thousands and thousands of research papers on climate change to help inform decision-makers on the nature of the problem and possibilities for response.

The IPCC is so important for clarifying what we know and don’t know about climate that I have testified before Congress that if it didn’t exist, we would have to invent it.

Last week, the IPCC announced its list of authors for its seventh assessment report, which is just getting underway and will take several years to produce.

One of its most important chapters is on extreme weather events — how they may have changed over time, and understanding the reasons for any identified changes.

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

The attack on @frediotto.bsky.social was seeded years ago by Roger Pielke Jr, who started arguing that this table from a recent @ipcc.bsky.social report proved that climate science cannot attribute extreme weather to climate change.

But Roger is of course lying. And we know this for 2 reasons.

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CLIMATEWIRE
Climate critics try to discredit IPCC author for linking
disasters to global warming
By LESLEY CLARK, SARA SCHONHARDT, CHELSEA HARVEY | 10/09/2025
06:22 AM EDT Roger Pielke Jr. and oil industry supporters are attacking climate scientist Friederike Otto, whose
work has been used in lawsuits against polluters.

Table 12.12 | Emergence of CIDs in different time periods, as assessed in this section. The colour contesponds to the confidence of the region with the highest confidence: white cells indicate where evidence is lacking or the signal is not present, leading to overal bu confidence of an emerging signal.

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Håkon Nordhagen @hakonnordhagen.bsky.social · 22h

Equinor dropper elektrifisering av Heidrun, Åsgard og Kristin på Haltenbanken utenfor Trøndelag og Snorre A og B i Nordsjøen.

Jaja, en enda større grunn å stenge disse feltene enda tidligere enn om de hadde blitt elektrifisert da.

e24.no/energi-og-kl...

Omstridt kraft fra land: Equinor vil droppe to prosjekter

Equinor vil droppe to prosjekter med kraft fra land, og sier at oljebransjen ikke vil nå kuttmålet for 2030. – Tiltakskostnaden blir for høy, sier Equinor-topp Kjetil Hove.

e24.no

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Håkon Nordhagen @hakonnordhagen.bsky.social · 22h

Ingen overraskelse heller at Atlasnettverket (aka Heritage Foundation) omtaler henne som «A long-time friend and ally of Atlas Network, María Corina Machado, often referred to as “The Iron Lady of Liberty».

«Det er jo noen merkelige ting her» som Moxnes sier.
www.atlasnetwork.org/articles/wha...

What Happened in Venezuela During the 2024 Election?

In the days running up to the election, friends of Atlas Network from Venezuela predicted a commanding victory for the country’s democratic opposition,…

www.atlasnetwork.org

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Håkon Nordhagen @hakonnordhagen.bsky.social · 1d

A neoliberal far right politician, with clear support to Argentina’s Milei (and Trump), in a country with world’s largest oil resources, just won the Nobel peace prize.

Still, the people of Venezuala deserve something much better than the chaos of Maduro.

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Håkon Nordhagen @hakonnordhagen.bsky.social · 1d

Didnt know they were making a film. Interesting!

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 1d

This is a good corrective to the BS narrative flowing through the Pielke/AEI/NYP/EID/DOE nexus. Their argument is designed so that we can never ever attribute extreme events to emissions - even singular events that would have *never* [for some suitable finite approximation] have happened before.

Chelsea Harvey @chelseaeharvey.bsky.social · 1d

Today from @lesleyclark.bsky.social and @saraschonhardt.bsky.social + contribs from me:

www.eenews.net/articles/cli...

Climate critics try to discredit IPCC author for linking disasters to global warming

Roger Pielke Jr. and oil industry supporters are attacking climate scientist Friederike Otto, whose work has been used in lawsuits against polluters.

www.eenews.net

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Håkon Nordhagen @hakonnordhagen.bsky.social · 1d

You never know in these strange and depressing times. Things usually kept out of politicans realm suddenly no longer are etc.

Agree on koko

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Håkon Nordhagen @hakonnordhagen.bsky.social · 1d

One Battle is really good, and deserves to be seen at a cinema. Assuming the same for dynamite, instead streamed on nf

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Håkon Nordhagen @hakonnordhagen.bsky.social · 1d

Wonder if the counter attack is misinterpreted by the russians in the same way as in Jacobsen’s book, or if the film is only about «the first 24 minutes»

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Håkon Nordhagen @hakonnordhagen.bsky.social · 1d

Noen som tror det var tilfeldig at «fredsavtale» ble «tegnet» dagen før fredsprisen skulle deles ut?

Vi snakker her om en så langt bortenfor koko president m crew, at ingenting kan utelukkes.

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