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Béatrice Cointe

@beatricecointe.bsky.social

Solar-powered Science & Technology Studies researcher and IAM ethnographer at CSI - CNRS, Mines Paris-PSL. "Well the world of research has gone berserk, too much paperwork" (Dylan 2006) Soundtrack: t.ly/0V77d

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Erika Milam@emilam.bsky.social · 3h ago

Please circulate: www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/news/call-ap... Seeking 10 Early Career Fellows to participate in 2 summer academies to be held in Berlin June 14–18, 2027 & June 26–30, 2028: SCIENCE IMAGINES ITS FUTURE. How have scholars deliberated about investing scarce resources in an uncertain future?

Call for Applications: Summer Academy on "Science Imagines Its Future" | MPIWG

Call for Applications: Summer Academy on "Science Imagines Its Future" (Deadline November 1)

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Nahel Belgherze@wxnb.bsky.social · 5d ago

Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.

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will pooley@willpooley.bsky.social · 6d ago

Some historical background to the fires in southwestern France, drawing on reading I did for my 2019 book about the moorlands, and lamenting the deeply depressing reality that we have known many of the causes of this ecological disaster for 150years 🗃️ williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2026/07/30/u...

Unintentional Arson

The fires in southwestern France are an appalling demonstration of the reality of climate change in 2026. But this is not the first ecological devastation in the region, and the role of human actio…

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Environment and Climate Politics Working Group@bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social · 2w ago

Paper prize deadline approaches! Did you present a paper on one of our panels this year? Are you a PhD / ECR? Submit your paper to us (we understand it will be a draft) and nominate yourself for our paper prize! Deadline is 7th Aug, get in touch if you have qs. www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...

Early-Career Environment and Climate Politics Paper Prize- Environment and Climate Politics | BISA

- Environment and Climate Politics Working Group

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Béatrice Cointe@beatricecointe.bsky.social · 3w ago

To the extent that it’s true, Nordhaus knew that just as well as them. But he considered that economics had nothing to say about extinction and existential risk. And he was an economist, so he did what economists often do, which is work under assumptions where their model can function.

Brad Johnson@climatebrad.hillheat.com · 3w ago

In conclusion, by the 1980s climate scientists knew that the cost of burning fossil fuels was approaching infinity, as it posed an existential threat to human civilization. But economists simply said "no it doesn't" and governments went with the liars who told them what they wanted to hear.

Béatrice Cointe@beatricecointe.bsky.social · 3w ago

A seldom discussed effect of a low discount rate is that it favors nuclear over fossil fuels. So besides the rather obvious moral case against high discount rates applied to climate policy, could they be considered a premium on fossil fuels? (This below is from A. Manne, Waiting for the Breeder)

This insensitivty to future events may be connected with the use of a 10% discount rate . Were we to have used amuch lower rate , e.g. 3%, the advantages of nuclear over fossil fuel would have been even greater than those estimated here. Critics of nuclear power would then have raised a series of objections.
Centre de Mathématiques Appliquées de Mines Paris - PSL@cma-mines-paris.bsky.social · 4w ago

[New publication📚] "Modeling for post-growth: Backcasting radical futures" in Ecological Economics @elseviersej.bsky.social by Thibaut Feix and Nadia Maïzi ➡️ Open access: www.cma.mines-paristech.fr/2026/07/10/m... Supported by @tti-5.bsky.social

Modeling for post-growth: Backcasting radical futures

New publication in Ecological Economics: Modeling for post-growth: Backcasting radical futuresBy Thibaut Feix & Nadia Maïzi Abstract: Economic models are more than technical instruments: they are len...

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John Trant@trantteam.bsky.social · last mo.

New sanctioned (t)rant about AI just dropped. On the limits of Alphafold and my worries about the disaster its use will cause for the literature and early-stage academic drug discovery. Look, they commissioned it. And by commissioned I don't mean I got paid, just invited. Awesome process btw.

The AI Chemist: To be trustworthy, LLMs need to show their work

Good scientists reveal how they do their experiments and report their results; so should any machine-driven research

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All Our Yesterdays@allouryesterdays.bsky.social · last mo.

In the UK CCS has received various waves of (offers of) support from the UK government for decades. I am not up to date on how many of the projects are proceeding, but I wrote this, which may be of interest - www.routledge.com/Carbon-Captu...

Carbon Capture and Storage in the United Kingdom: History, Policies and Politics

This book is a concise but comprehensive guide to the history, present and possible futures of carbon capture and storage policy and action in the United Kingdom (UK). There have been multiple failed ...

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Béatrice Cointe@beatricecointe.bsky.social · last mo.

I've finally read the piece and while I've long thought CCS is both crazy & dodgy, I'm ambivalent about this visual. The message is everybody got tricked by the industry in promoting CCS which is not feasible while downplaying solar. But it could just as well tell the opposite story (1)

Tom Ellison@123tomellison.bsky.social · last mo.

The must see visual from Propublica's brutal takedown of carbon capture magical thinking: projects.propublica.org/why-carbon-c... @amywestervelt.bsky.social @propublica.org @drilledmedia.bsky.social

On the left, a line graph showing a flat trajectory of actual carbon capture and storage contrasted with optimistic projections of it taking off into the future. On the right, a line graph showing actual solar electricity production skyrocketing ahead of all projections.
Béatrice Cointe@beatricecointe.bsky.social · last mo.

The current debate about air con is about as silly as Nordhaus' saying most of the American economy will not be affected by global warming because it happens indoors. But at least Nordhaus had the excuse of writing 35 years ago when we had much less lived experience of a warming climate.

Rishika Pardikar@rishpardikar.bsky.social · 2mo ago

At IPCC negotiations, some countries want to see AR7 published in time to inform Global Stocktake in 2028. Countries like India, China, Saudi Arabia and Kenya say the timeline should not be advanced. An interview with two people from India's IPCC delegation: frontline.thehindu.com/environment/...

Why India Is Opposing a Faster Timeline for the IPCC’s AR7 Reports

A dispute over the IPCC's next assessment cycle has exposed deeper disagreements over climate science, representation, and the role of the Global South in shaping global policy.

frontline.thehindu.com

Miranda Boettcher@mirandaboe.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Reaching out to all who research the future! I am a Lead Author of 𝗜𝗣𝗖𝗖 𝗔𝗥𝟳 𝗪𝗚𝗜𝗜𝗜, 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝟯: 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘀𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲. We are expected to 𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗮 𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 & 𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀. Submit materials here! zenodo.org/records/2041...

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