This is a particularly insightful piece that discusses, for instance, why solar and wind energy have expanded at a rate faster than even the most optimistic projections.
"Hold on to your socks" ☀️ 💨
p.s. Frogs do hop out of the water when it gets uncomfortable. We need a better metaphor for the lack of updated assessments of changing situations.
scienceinfo.net/the-truth-ab...
Our prehistoric hunter gatherer ancestors were considerably less violent than the orthodoxy previously held. But they were vulnerable to sociopaths—how did they handle these?
buff.ly/9NoTGzK
Some awfully good signs yesterday.
Big protests against the Trump regime in over 1,000 US cities and towns yesterday.
In Science, researchers report a physics-informed #DeepLearning model that can predict the deformation behavior of Antarctic ice shelves, revealing complexities of the process that extend beyond the traditional understanding.
Learn more in a new #SciencePerspective. scim.ag/3RgudLc
Let's celebrate Hannah Arendt #InternationalWomensDay
VRT NWS is nu ook actief op Bluesky.
Volg👇👇
@vrtnws.be
When horses were replaced by cars there was a lot of resistance & scaremongering by the incumbent horse industry. Here's an old anti car advert by a horse carriage company.
History now repeats itself with countless scare stories about renewables, heat pumps & electric vehicles.
Een herinnering aan iedereen vandaag om dit boek op zijn leeslijstje te zetten
Helpful!
Zoals steeds... onderbouwd, inzichtelijk en to the point! 👇
Petrofuture Normandy—a vintage 1969 Shell Oil road map with 66m sea level rise added
Cover for Petrofuture Normandy—a vintage 1969 Shell Oil road map with 66m sea level rise added
Detail of Petrofuture Normandy—a vintage 1969 Shell Oil road map with 66m sea level rise added
Detail of Petrofuture Normandy—a vintage 1969 Shell Oil road map with 66m sea level rise added
The #Normandie Petrofuture map... #France when the ice caps melt.
Each of the #Petrofuture series is a comment on #greenwashing, nostalgia, and propaganda--showing coastlines when the ice caps melt, layered on top of the vintage gas station map.
#Normandy #ClimateChange #Maps #Cartography
It's much harder to 'electrify everything' when you put most energy taxes on electricity...
Great use of history to inform future scenarios of Trumpomuskovia
“My focus is not so much on the landscapes that humans have left their mark on, but rather the landscapes that have left their mark on humans.” www.tclf.org/stewards/eri...
Charts showing people overestimating the prevalence of minorities (and underestimating that of majorities) evoke outrage about media bias and xenophobia—wrongly so, research suggests. This is a common psychological phenomenon: https://buff.ly/3OJviKx
HT @dggoldst.bsky.social
Interested in basic income research? Check out our latest publication below 👇.
In the BABEL research project we took the idea of implementing basic income in a developed welfare state such as Belgium seriously. Results will be presented during a webinar on Fri Jan 24, 2025. Stay tuned.
