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𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥 @jacobnyrup.bsky.social · 3d

Yep! There is even great research that shows that these are precisely the kind of people, who would want to join the secret police -- because they are not good for anything else: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Elin Lerum Boasson @elinlb.bsky.social · 8d

Many good climate podcasts out there, but few are as well produced as Living Planet from DW. I am happy to have contributed to this episode on Norwegian climate and petroleum policy and politics. It skips important details, but is well worth listening to!

podcasts.apple.com/no/podcast/l...

Norway's big green lie

Podkastepisode · Living Planet · 26.09.2025 · 29 min

podcasts.apple.com

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Elin Lerum Boasson @elinlb.bsky.social · 8d

No, that is not a quote from me!

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Elin Lerum Boasson @elinlb.bsky.social · 8d

@cicero.oslo.no @statsvitenskap.bsky.social

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Elin Lerum Boasson @elinlb.bsky.social · 8d

Many good climate podcasts out there, but few are as well produced as Living Planet from DW. I am happy to have contributed to this episode on Norwegian climate and petroleum policy and politics. It skips important details, but is well worth listening to!

podcasts.apple.com/no/podcast/l...

Norway's big green lie

Podkastepisode · Living Planet · 26.09.2025 · 29 min

podcasts.apple.com

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Elin Lerum Boasson @elinlb.bsky.social · 13d

Stortinget forutså ikke helt hva EU kom til å gjøre i klimapolitikken. Ettersom norske klimamål baserer seg mer på hva EU kommer til å gjøre, enn hva vi skal gjøre selv, så skaper dette hodebry. 1/n

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Norges klimamål overgår nå EUs – Høyre reagerer: – Vi må være mest mulig på linje med EU (+)

Norge ligger nå an til å ha et høyere klimamål for utslippskutt i 2035 enn EU-landene. Støre-regjeringen skal svare Stortinget om hvilke konsekvenser det får – og hva de akter å gjøre med det.

www.dn.no

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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 12d

Have Chinese greenhouse gas emissions reached a peak?

Many people seem to be boldly saying yes. I think it is too premature.

Lots of good things happening in China, a peak is expected soon, as we have been saying for 10 years...

(in Norwegian) www.energiogklima.no/to-grader/ek...

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Elin Lerum Boasson @elinlb.bsky.social · 13d

Istedenfor holder Norge seg med et mål som har som hovedfunksjon å signalisere at vi er minst like gode som EU.

Dette skaper kontinuerlige problemer for aller, inkludert Storting og regjering. 3/3

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Elin Lerum Boasson @elinlb.bsky.social · 13d

Norsk klimaomstilling ville blitt mer forutsigbar og lettere å forholde seg til dersom landet hadde et styringsmål, basert på faglige ananlyser av hva som er mulig å oppnå innenlands de neste ti årene. 2/n

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Elin Lerum Boasson @elinlb.bsky.social · 13d

Stortinget forutså ikke helt hva EU kom til å gjøre i klimapolitikken. Ettersom norske klimamål baserer seg mer på hva EU kommer til å gjøre, enn hva vi skal gjøre selv, så skaper dette hodebry. 1/n

www.dn.no/politikk/kli...

Norges klimamål overgår nå EUs – Høyre reagerer: – Vi må være mest mulig på linje med EU (+)

Norge ligger nå an til å ha et høyere klimamål for utslippskutt i 2035 enn EU-landene. Støre-regjeringen skal svare Stortinget om hvilke konsekvenser det får – og hva de akter å gjøre med det.

www.dn.no

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 13d

Since you all are talking about interventions at the Climate Summit 2025:

1) remarkable how Jinping’s 1st sentence refers to the 10 year anniversary of Paris Accord

2) Remember: China tends to underpromise, always

3) China is not going all electrostate for normative climate leadership purposes

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Chris Crellin @ccrellin.bsky.social · 16d

Excited to be a visiting PhD researcher for the next three months at the @statsvitenskap.bsky.social, University of Oslo under the supervision of @elinlb.bsky.social!

Plenty planned here already and looking forward to engaging with many researchers and exploring the city and surrounds!

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Thomas Nilsen @thomasnilsen.bsky.social · 17d

The Pentagon demands journalists to sign a pledge not to obtain or report any information - even if unclassified - unless it has been expressly authorized by the government.

To be clear, as a reporter who is also covering different aspects of 🇺🇸 military, I will never sign such restrictions.

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Elin Lerum Boasson @elinlb.bsky.social · 16d

I feel for you, citizens of the USA.

An administration that governs without knowledge will stop solving problems, but continue to create them. Numbers are not sufficient to create good governance, but good governance is impossible without them.

Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 16d

You don't see what you don't look for.

Trump ends annual report on U.S. hunger amid rising food insecurity.
Stops collecting data on climate change as it worsens.
Stops reporting economic data as the economy weakens.

Information is the enemy of lies.

www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Trump ends annual report on U.S. hunger amid rising food insecurity

The Trump administration is ending a decades-long report on U.S. hunger, calling it “politicized.” Last year, the USDA report warned of rising food insecurity.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Elin Lerum Boasson @elinlb.bsky.social · 20d

I am ready for a new cycle of @ipcc.bsky.social report-making. I am far from the only Norwegian, joining the crew of 6 from @cicero.oslo.no. I am the only one from @statsvitenskap.bsky.social, but quite a lot political scientists are involved.

Wish us luck!

Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 20d

It is great to see five contributors to IPCC AR7 coming from little @cicero.oslo.no in Oslo, Norway (where?) with only 100 or so employees (including admin and comms).

Who are they?

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 20d

The pulling of Colbert and Kimmel is a perfect reminder that living in autocracy is dangerous to those that expose themselves and, for the ordinary median citizens, it is vastly dull and boring.

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 21d

The Publisher of the New York Times, A.G. Sulzberger, outlined what he calls the "playbook" for governments that want to weaken and ultimately neuter the press. www.nytco.com/press/ag-sul...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28d

The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.

Houston Chronicle @houstonchronicle.com · 28d

Texas A&M University System orders audit of all courses after gender identity lesson goes viral

Details: bit.ly/42jauQZ

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Elin Lerum Boasson @elinlb.bsky.social · 29d

Norwegian elections resulted in continued Labour minority rule. Greens are happy with best election results ever, other small green parties lost votes. Record high support for populist right Fremskrittspartiet. Devastatingly bad result for the conservatives. What does it mean for climate policy? 1/

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Elin Lerum Boasson @elinlb.bsky.social · 29d

Yes, absolutely a chance that SP will shift and join the conservatives. KrF has shifted radically toward populist right-wing culture war in this election, it will not join the lefts. I guess V will support ambitious climate proposals, but they are too small to matter much.

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Elin Lerum Boasson @elinlb.bsky.social · 29d

Positive change can happen if Labour (it has a substantial internal climate fraction) decides to put in tremendous effort in working with the fractured parliament and convince the left parties+populist agrarian Center Party or the conservatives to support a positive shift for climate. Unlikely. 3/3

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Elin Lerum Boasson @elinlb.bsky.social · 29d

Norwegian climate policy will not be dismantled. The country will continue to allow high investments in oil and gas, and facilitate exploration for new oil fields. It is not likely that Norway will strengthen climate governance with clear targets, good procedure and strong climate admin. 2/

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Elin Lerum Boasson @elinlb.bsky.social · 29d

Norwegian elections resulted in continued Labour minority rule. Greens are happy with best election results ever, other small green parties lost votes. Record high support for populist right Fremskrittspartiet. Devastatingly bad result for the conservatives. What does it mean for climate policy? 1/

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Elin Lerum Boasson @elinlb.bsky.social · Sep 8

Hold your horses, not sure this is a good case for your argument. Not clear what the outcome will be yet. It is because of the UNFCCC that the EU discussion is so heated now. Really looking forward to the book. My students truly ❤️ the paper.

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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · Sep 7

So proud of this collaboration led by @cssn.org

110 top experts from around the world

13 chapters on who is blocking or slowing action on climate change

A quantum leap in our understanding of why society has failed to solve this

Will be free online Oct 14 1/x

global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Cover of new book Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment from Oxford University Press. Shows cows, smokestacks, jets, oil refineries, cell phones and a man in a suit talking to an audience

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