I found this article by Joseph Glauber at @ifpri.org to be informative and even-handed.
It’s worth a read especially if you are trying to navigate all the stories (and hot takes) about global energy and fertilizer markets, and effects on prices and food security in different places.
Say what you want but these guys are really dangerous and need to be put to rest. EU government should stop using Palantir
Gutting regulations is not going to be the thing for nuclear power many people seem to think it is.
I too thought so once. But then we interviewed a person who knew how and why the current Finnish #nuclear #energy #law was born.
The "father of Finnish nuclear power" *demanded* stricter permits!
a chart showing high new EV sales (close to 100% for 2025) but slow change in usage, registration and emissions drops
Norway is at ~100% EVs for new sales, but 7 out of every 10km driven in 2024 was reliant on fossil fuels. Cars stick around for decades - so change is slow.
Protecting ppl from fossil fuel crises means EVs, yes, but *fast deep cuts* means huge $$ in public and active transport. Speed matters!
"Since there is no reason for the US military to deliberately target a school full of children, that raises questions about whether the attack was an intelligence failure." A sentence that can only be written and accepted with complete ignorance of past & present actions of the US military
If it's sometimes hard to tell the difference between fossil-fuel lobbyists and the billionaire press, that's because there isn’t one.
My column on the politicians, journalists and junktanks using the Iran crisis as an excuse to extract our remaining gas and oil.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A cartoon drawing of a light brown camel with one hump. At the position where one might find an udder, we see a baby camel hanging. It is to illustrate the absurdity of the sentence "The definition and definition of microbes on the camel’s camel is very important ", found in the abstract of a paper about the camel udder microbiome.
New blog post: The Camel's Camel.
Today, I found a beautiful example of synonymized plagiarism involving the microbiome of a camel’s udder.
#TorturedPhrases #ScienceIntegrity #ResearchIntegrity
scienceintegritydigest.com/2026/03/12/t...
For the war in Iran Trump team says:
- It's not about destroying the nuclear weapons program
- It's not about regime change
- There was no contingency plan for Iran closing the Strait of Hormuz
Grammarly's AI writing tips claim inspiration from experts who never agreed to participate
the-decoder.com/grammarlys-a...
Scientists/science writers I found in Grammarly's 'expert review' system: David Spiegelhalter, Ivan Oransky, Mary Roach, Rebecca Skloot, Ed Yong, Melinda Wenner Moyer, Deborah Blum, Tom Knight, Michael E Mann, Corinne Le Quere. [pic: results of 5 trials w/ free burner acct]. No doubt many more.
Grammarly now says it has disabled its “expert review“ feature and will ‘reimagine’ it. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
64/ Day by day, this war is becoming a ecological catastrophe.
on land and sea, fuel depots, oil fields, petrocehmical refineries, oil and gas tankers, are burning, billowing toxic smoke into the lungs of people and animals and sludge into marine life.
ceobs.org/how-does-war...
62/ Do you get whats coming? #SolarHockeyStickOfHope
It looks like nature's engineers might finally catch a dam break!
Conservation groups joined state Rep. Mandy Lindsay, Rep. Elizabeth Velasco, Sen. Cathy Kipp and Sen. Lisa Cutter to introduce a first-of-its-kind bill to protect #beavers on #PublicLands 🦫🦫
Learn more ➡️ bit.ly/4rrmycJ
Fracking waste has a mix of chemicals from fracking fluid + others leached from underground.
Arsenic, lead, cancer-causing benzenes, radioactive radium can all be present.
It's being dumped in Pennsylvania landfills.
Mounting evidence says it's getting into rivers:
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This is a slow death for the River Boyne. There has never been any particular effort to alleviate the pressure on this river despite years (decades?) of warnings and reports
www.independent.ie/regionals/lo...
A new report by Carbon Direct (out today) makes the case for how combining superpollutant mitigation and durable CDR could work in practice:
“Ice that may appear solid can quickly become thin and unstable. Residents are strongly urged to stay off all frozen lakes, ponds, and waterways,” the statement said.
Soldan, too, had an ice-safety message: He said one of the mottos from his detachment is “no ice is safe ice.”
Do you know, that the word idiot is from the Greeks? Do you know its original meaning? It was a specific word created to describe those people that don’t vote. So appropriate still today.
Happy International Women's Day
#IWD #8marzo
Pollutants from oil can have a devastating effect on marine life.
New research led by @oceanauk.bsky.social is uncovering the harm the oil & gas industry is doing to ocean wildlife. Learn more about our work 👉 oceana.ly/4rZfKUs
Good morning with good news: Combined solar and battery plant's global average cost is 44% LOWER than the cost of combined-cycle gas turbine plant!
Solar & battery: $57/MWh
Gas plant: $102/MWh
Solar: $39/MWh
Land wind: $40/MWh
Offshore wind: $100/MWh
WOW!
about.bnef.com/insights/cle... #energysky
Asgard #archaea: have we found our microbial ancestors?
New review (also for newcomers to the field!) by Christa Schleper and Thiago Rodrigues-Oliveira
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
So there is a story about the "top 10 cities at risk during nuclear war" circulating in various tabloids/etc. with my name attached to it, and I will say that a) I never have (nor would) make such a list at all, and b) I never said any of the quotes attributed to me in the article.
Silicon Valley’s motto of the moment is that “everyone wants electrons” for their data centers.
They may want to remember how much they need molecules — ones that most cheaply move through the Strait of Hormuz. 🗺️ 🔌💡
"Saving Science from Disinformation, Propaganda, and Lies" | Great review of #ScienceUnderSiege by John Thompson for the @dianeravitch.bsky.social blog: dianeravitch.net/2026/03/04/j...
The Guardian on our new study, which shows that global heating is significantly gathering speed. Our efforts to overcome our fossil fuel addiction should do the same.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Enhanced rock weathering (ERW) on agricultural soils is being considered as a carbon dioxide removal strategy. However, uncertainties remain regarding feedstock availability, plant-soil impacts, CDR efficiency, and socio-economic considerations, limiting large-scale deployment. 🧪
