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California Air Resources Board: "To achieve climate goals, we need less driving"
Transportation Researchers: "To reduce driving, we need fewer lane miles"

Caltrans: "We need billions of dollars to keep widening highways."
California Legislature: "You got it."

usa.streetsblog.org/2025/12/02/o...
Opinion: One Less Lane Ought To Fix It — Streetsblog USA
Federal inaction means states must lead on reducing emissions — but their reluctance to reallocate road space for cars may doom climate goals.
usa.streetsblog.org
December 8, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to portray the Russian economy as able to support a protracted war in Ukraine — likely to buttress the ongoing Russian cognitive warfare effort falsely claiming that a Russian victory is inevitable.
www.criticalthreats.org/analysis/rus...
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 8, 2025
www.criticalthreats.org
December 9, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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After a backroom meeting with Donald Trump and a donation to the Trump ballroom, NVIDIA got a deal to sell the most advanced AI chip it has ever sold to China.

The NVIDIA CEO should testify under oath in Congress.
December 9, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Our infrastructure isn’t ready for what’s coming.
The Bay took over the highway during this morning's #KingTides in Marin.
December 5, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Trump ban on wind power projects overturned by federal judge
Trump ban on wind power projects overturned by federal judge
Seventeen states led by New York Attorney General Letitia James sued Trump in May to overturn the president's ban.
cnb.cx
December 9, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Britain records new wind power generation record, NESO says reut.rs/48qCx4B
Britain records new wind power generation record, NESO says
Britain posted a new wind generation record, producing enough power for more than 23 million homes, the National Energy System Operator said on Monday.
reut.rs
December 9, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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US judge strikes down Trump’s ban on new wind permits on.ft.com/4pnpxCH
US judge strikes down Trump’s ban on new wind permits
Court vacates president’s January executive order that froze approval of new projects
on.ft.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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China’s trade surplus tops $1 trillion for first time

www.ft.com/content/b9bf...
December 8, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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25 yrs since UK's 1st commercial offshore wind farm, now a world leader

How does wind power help ⬇️ wholesale energy prices?

🇬🇧’s marginal cost pricing system - most expensive power source (usually gas) sets price

⬆️ renewable capacity = ⬇️ gas reliance = ⬇️ prices
December 8, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Eisenhower said it was a "historic need"

Kennedy talked about "admiration" to EU project.

Nixon went for "less lecturing Europe and more listenig"

Reagan: "moral success"

Obama: "great achievement of human history"

...

The US-EU relations by US Presidents www.linkedin.com/posts/pablop...
December 8, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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This morning's ECMWF deterministic forecast simulates an extreme scenario: +11 °C in Finland in mid-December.

Most likely does not verify as such but gives perspective of what it possible in today's climate under the current large-scale weather pattern.
December 8, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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China's real estate crisis keeps worsening
• Property prices have fallen by 20-40% since their 2021 peak, depending on the measure
• Huge share of families may have suffered loss, as value of their home is now below what they paid for it
www.economist.com/finance-and-...
December 8, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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European civilization used to fear winter, and built a whole technology & economic paradigm based on FF heating to fight & live with it. I fear that very quickly the entire northern hemisphere is going to come to fear summer & indoor air conditioning season.
One winter night in the Netherlands, 2025...
Temperature here in Utrecht, at 9 p.m.: +13.8°C (57F).
December 8, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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This iconic Fabian Todorovic cartoon is still one of the best I’ve seen at illustrating the remarkable amount of space we surrender to cars, leaving little space left for everyone and everything else. The text added later makes the bonus point that many drivers still manage to complain about it.
December 8, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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While exports from China to the US have fallen for most of the year, shipments have surged to other destinations, including Southeast Asia, Latin America, Africa, and the European Union.
China's exports grow 5.9% in November, while US shipments drop 29%
While exports from China to the US have fallen for most of the year, shipments have surged to other destinations, including Southeast Asia, Latin America, Africa, and the European Union.
l.euronews.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Logical consequence: 75% of Germans think the country should thus seek a nuclear umbrella from France and the United Kingdom.
December 8, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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Martin Parr 🖤
December 7, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Morning all.

Photographer Martin Parr. Elland, West Yorkshire From ‘Bad Weather’. December, 1978.
December 7, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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Comment ça, mort ?

Martin Parr, 1952-2025
December 7, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Architecture (Eccentric Construction) by László Moholy-Nagy, 1916
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137247
December 7, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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The globetrotting ‘starchitect’ created some of the world’s best-known buildings, from the Bilbao Guggenheim to LA’s Walt Disney Concert Hall: on.ft.com/48oRCDN
December 7, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Here comes the sun! (And wind and storage…) 🎶 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 apnews.com/article/clim...
Solar and wind power has grown faster than electricity demand this year, report says
A new analysis of solar and wind power shows its generation worldwide has outpaced electricity demand this year.
apnews.com
December 7, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Edward Seago made just the one visit to Hong Kong in 1962 and plays the tourist here, emerging himself in the noise and bustle of an early morning market, capturing the sight, sounds and figures he would have seen.
December 7, 2025 at 9:28 AM