Patrik Gronostaj
@electrification.bsky.social
Ecology, psychology, nature, urbanism och environmental technology. 🚲
This is way it is never the "new normal" even without tipping points. Emissions adds up syncronized to the energy additions in society. What we might see by 2030 is that the last decade was beyond some tipping point driving even faster acceleration.
Prof. Eliot Jacobson@climatecasino.net · 6d agoHere's a graph of global surface temperatures since 1940 by their decadal average. Notice any pattern?
Interesting article by Jean-Baptiste Fressoz expanding on jevons paradox & material symbiosis!
Entangled Matters@entangledmatters.bsky.social · last wk.New article about energy and the Jevons Paradox. The Generalized Jevons Paradox and the Future of Energy by William Oman, Etienne Espagne @espagneetienne.bsky.social & Jean-Baptiste Fressoz. www.imf.org/en/publicati...
Interesting article by Jean-Baptiste Fressoz expanding on jevons paradox & material symbiosis!
Entangled Matters@entangledmatters.bsky.social · last wk.New article about energy and the Jevons Paradox. The Generalized Jevons Paradox and the Future of Energy by William Oman, Etienne Espagne @espagneetienne.bsky.social & Jean-Baptiste Fressoz. www.imf.org/en/publicati...
If there are Seven Wonders of the Cycling World, Beijing's Shangdi–Huilongguan Highway deserves a place on the list. The 5.4 km elevated expressway is designed so riders can cycle its entire length without stopping; cutting their commute to 30 minutes—halving the rush hour travel time by car/metro.
New article about energy and the Jevons Paradox. The Generalized Jevons Paradox and the Future of Energy by William Oman, Etienne Espagne @espagneetienne.bsky.social & Jean-Baptiste Fressoz. www.imf.org/en/publicati...
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Good chart explaining some of the complexities with rebound effects. This gives some context to why efficiency in energy use is often not giving the results we would want. Jevons paradox is in the mix.
Dr. Aaron Thierry@thierryaaron.bsky.social · last wk.The rebounds are much more fiendish than just straight replacement...
I just came home from Copenhagen what an inspiring city with all bikes, electric busses and ferries. Wonderful parks and a botanical garden. So many solutions that should be taken to other cities!
Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they)@doctorvive.bsky.social · last wk.Omg poster on the train platform in Copenhagen: “ War! AI! Virus! Trump! Have you all seen that the climate crisis is still here? It’s hard to solve the climate crisis if we’re if we’re not talking about it.” 💀
Looking forward to read this report uncovering the decpetion pushed about "clean" natural gas. Gas was pushed as a bridge fuel an still gas is growing around the world often even worse as imported LNG.
Rebecca Leber@rebleber.bsky.social · 2w agoA major new investigation out today with new revelations about the oil and gas industry's long-running deception over natural gas. We lay out in new details and documents how big oil and gas manufactured the myth of "clean" natural gas.
What is the energy transition? The definition is totally broken. This article is full of great examples of the contradictions: "The energy transition is advancing. It just is not yet advancing fast enough to stop emissions from rising." robertrapier.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/rrapie...
Energy Demand Outpaced The Transition In 2025
The 2026 Statistical Review shows clean energy grew fast in 2025, but global demand grew faster, pushing fossil fuel use and emissions higher.
forbes.com
This is a beautiful article on lichen! Almost as if reading Kimmerer writing about mosses.
Laleh Khalili@lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 3w agoThe earth is so rich in odd and wonderful beings. Aside from fungi and ferns, there is lichen: "Self-sufficient, lichens have no roots, no vascular tissue, make their own food and don’t need pollinators to reproduce." www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-m...
This inteview is really enlightning about why IPCC scenarios are not able to account for tipping points. And how models since 2010 are dependent on big CCS deployment that is not close to happening. We need CCS because we have to for the model to get to the goal wanted. Not because it is realistic.
Carbon Brief@carbonbrief.org · 3w agoIt is easy for climate scientists to get “relatively depressed," Prof Detlef van Vuuren tells Carbon Brief. Read or watch the full interview by @leohickman.carbonbrief.org here ⬇️ bit.ly/4wbaU8J
It is easy for climate scientists to get “relatively depressed," Prof Detlef van Vuuren tells Carbon Brief. Read or watch the full interview by @leohickman.carbonbrief.org here ⬇️ bit.ly/4wbaU8J
How many years will we hear "this is the new normal" while getting new heat records and more extreme weather. While tipping points create more instability and wiplash climate. We don't even know what is coming. Read this article by: @alevermann.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘Climate free fall’: why the biggest risk to our economies is yet to be recognized
Increasing instability of the ocean, ice and atmosphere threatens farming, finance and society. We all need to wake up to that fact.
nature.com
BYD is betting their external relations on a political recruit proper Elon Musk style. Straight out of Fidesz, extreme right wing racist party, that lost the latest election in Hungary. Known for close ties to the Putin regime & conflict with EU. How is this beneficial? Will Putin buy EVs? 🙈🤯
CarNewsChina@carnewschina.bsky.social · 3w agoBYD recruits former Hungarian foreign minister to lead international relations.
"Instead of analysing future #climate as a sequence of quasi-equilibria — as a system that will settle when the world stops emitting carbon — researchers must treat it as an unstable system that is reorganizing while society tries to phase out carbon-based energy." - @alevermann.bsky.social
‘Climate free fall’: why the biggest risk to our economies is yet to be recognized
Increasing instability of the ocean, ice and atmosphere threatens farming, finance and society. We all need to wake up to that fact.
nature.com
It is NOT the "new normal" is it? Temperatures are still rising and extremes will be getting worse. Nothing is normal untill emissions decrease immensely and rapidly.
Saul Staniforth@saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 3w agoA new Met Office report: "more extreme weather is becoming the normal now in our climate" Climate change is here. Where is the national conversation about the urgent need for adaptation in the years ahead? Instead what we get is politicians demanding billions more for bombs
It is NOT the "new normal" is it? Temperatures are still rising and extremes will be getting worse. Nothing is normal untill emissions decrease immensely and rapidly.
Saul Staniforth@saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 3w agoA new Met Office report: "more extreme weather is becoming the normal now in our climate" Climate change is here. Where is the national conversation about the urgent need for adaptation in the years ahead? Instead what we get is politicians demanding billions more for bombs
The Flamingo Revolution - Albanian massive environmental protests against Trump empire. Listen to Dua Lipa talk to historian Lea Ypi about history and the current protests. @dualipa.bsky.social @leaypi.bsky.social www.service95.com/dua-lipa-lea...
Dua & Lea Ypi On Freedom, Communism And Coming of Age
With ‘Free’ the Service95 Book Club Monthly Read for July, its author Lea Ypi joins Dua Lipa to share her thoughts on this striking memoir
service95.com
When biomass (wood) is a part of the "energy transition" it is not a new energy source nor a clean one and contributes to deforestation.
Ember@ember-energy.org · 3w agoThree biomass power stations in the UK – Drax, Lynemouth and Teesside – together emitted MORE carbon emissions than the nine most polluting gas power stations combined 🏭📈 ember-energy.org/lat...
‘National scandal’: June heatwave killed 440 people a day in England and Wales at peak, analysis indicates - May and June heatwaves led to 2700 lost livesm starkly illustrating the danger of the #climatecrisis @wwattribution.bsky.social Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...
June heatwave killed up to 440 people a day in England and Wales, data suggests
Extreme temperatures in May and June led to about 2,700 lost lives in total with climate crisis adding 3C to 4C
theguardian.com
SUVs are higher at the front and three times more likely to kill a child when they hit them. SUV drivers drag the child under their vehicle, and then they crush the child to death. It's incredible that SUVs don't have higher tax, and why not lower speed limits. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Britain’s cars and SUVs are growing bigger – but there is a way to stop this deadly ‘carspreading’ | Christian Wolmar
Larger vehicles crowd our roads and are far more dangerous to pedestrians. Let’s curb them before they do even more damage, says says transport commentator Christian Wolmar
theguardian.com
Fressoz on IPCC Group 1 models underestimating extreme weather and acceleration of warming: "The mere plausibility of these scenarios should be enough to alert us." Will he rethink the timeline in More & More & More? As even net zero by 2050 could be devestating. www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...
'In trying to avoid accusations of exaggerating, the IPCC has instead underestimated the severity of our summers'
COLUMN. Long accused of alarmism by the far right, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has, in fact, been too cautious, underestimating the speed of change and its impacts, says histo...
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Fressoz on IPCC Group 1 models underestimating extreme weather and acceleration of warming: "The mere plausibility of these scenarios should be enough to alert us." Will he rethink the timeline in More & More & More? As even net zero by 2050 could be devestating. www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...
'In trying to avoid accusations of exaggerating, the IPCC has instead underestimated the severity of our summers'
COLUMN. Long accused of alarmism by the far right, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has, in fact, been too cautious, underestimating the speed of change and its impacts, says histo...
lemonde.fr
@akshatrathi.bsky.social interviews Fressoz asking "Don't you think the energy transition is a different conversation with a shrinking population?" @matthuber.bsky.social critiques Fressoz work writing the population will "soon peak" & decline. UN 2024: peak by 2084 at 10,3B How is that helpful?
A so called socialist state weighed down by thousands of blooming luxury SUVs. China's battling with auto- and EVobesity the average curb weight of new passenger cars was 1,7 tons in 2024 - an increase of nearly 400 kilograms since 2012. @cnevpost.com cnevpost.com/2026/07/08/c...
CPCA's Cui calls for tax measures to curb upsizing of EVs in China
CPCA secretary general said China's current tax system places no constraints on NEV weight or power, failing to curb the trend toward larger vehicles and excessive power.
cnevpost.com
CCS really another fake story made by fossil industry.
Laleh Khalili@lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 4w agoThis is the dirtiest type of research. Princeton scientists took $15 million from BP and shaped their research on carbon capture in consultation with the oil company: www.propublica.org/article/wedg...
Drax: The story of a subsidised energy transition from wood to coal to imported wood. Drax biomass power station 11th year running as UK’s biggest emitter. Over 99% of fuel burned in 2025 was imported. 87% sourced in US & Canada. By @ember-energy.org cleantechnica.com/2026/07/09/d...
Drax Power Station’s Carbon Emissions Hit A New High In 2025 While Receiving Record Public Subsidies - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Drax is the UK’s largest emitter but received record £999m in subsidies last year. London, 9 July 2026 — New analysis from th...
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"Is the British empire widely taught in British schools? The data says no" www.middleeasteye.net/news/data-pr...
Is the British empire widely taught in British schools? The data says no
Recent criticism of remarks by Green Party leader Zack Polanski and historian William Dalrymple saw a resurgence in the debate on imperial history in the UK education system
middleeasteye.net
@akshatrathi.bsky.social interviews Fressoz asking "Don't you think the energy transition is a different conversation with a shrinking population?" @matthuber.bsky.social critiques Fressoz work writing the population will "soon peak" & decline. UN 2024: peak by 2084 at 10,3B How is that helpful?
