Henrik
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Henrik
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On the 10th Anniversary of the Paris Agreement, you’re going to hear a lot about the progress we’ve made — people saying we “are” heading to 2.5 degrees heating instead of four.

I deeply regret to tell you that this is complacent misinformation.

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December 12, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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November 25, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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This brought out a bunch of doomers "...but! but!"-ing with all of the obstacles facing a pro-democracy movement in the USA, but I think it is worth thinking about the question from the other side.

What does MAGA need to do to do (not how, just what) to hold power long-term? Are they doing it?
Well, I guess my question for all of the doomers now would be why they think no one can stop Donald Trump from taking our democracy from us?

The guy couldn't even take Jimmy Kimmel.
September 25, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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The battlefield was Hannibal’s, but the war belonged to Rome. warontherocks.com/20...
The Importance of the Battle of Cannae - War on the Rocks
Editor’s Note: This is part of a new series of essays entitled “Battle Studies,” which seeks, through the study of military history, to demonstrate how
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July 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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On the blog for the Fourth of July, a musing discussion of the American civil-military relationship, one of the United States' most remarkably successful traditions, almost two and a half centuries old, yet now fraying out of neglect and malice.
acoup.blog/2025/07/04/c...
Collections: The American Civil-Military Relationship
As is traditional here, I am taking advantage of the Fourth of July this week to write something about the United States, this time a brief discussion of the nature of civil-military relations in t…
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July 4, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Climate mitigation and adaptation measures are not costs. They are investments.

The true costs occur when mitigation fails and adaptation is too slow so we suffer from continually worsening extreme weather events like heatwaves and floods.

Invest now to reduce costs in future.
June 29, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Hundreds of millions of bees, almost 80% of bees in the US, have died over he past eight months. Researchers don't know why.

Here is what this means:
March 31, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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It would be helpful if more people understood renewable energy is actually an extremely disruptive technology and the reason monied interests are trying to make folks hate it is that they are the ones which will be disrupted.
March 5, 2025 at 6:09 PM