Karsten Schulz
@kas.eurosky.social
Assistant Professor Governance & Innovation @ University of Groningen | Climate Governance | Sustainability & Digital Innovation | Energy Transition | Geopolitics I have a background in Geography and Political Science
El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"
Check out the full analysis over at The Climate Brink:
The real energy use of agentic AI
Agents use about 600x more energy than simple AI prompts
theclimatebrink.com
Essentially, and according to the notes of the meeting, the far right governments are now positioning the Ceuta “incident” as a success story of preventing an invasion, all while having used Spain to score political points home. I will write a separate summary on that later today.
French interior Minister on Ceuta after meeting with EU counterparts "The problem isn't Schengen. Schengen is the solution. Schengen didn't let a single person from Ceuta onto the Spanish mainland. The problem is "outside interference" whipping up divisions within Europe"
Our latest article "Major intensification of fire weather across southern Europe in recent decades" has been published in Nature's Scientific Reports (Open access). Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Major intensification of fire weather across southern Europe in recent decades - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Major intensification of fire weather across southern Europe in recent decades
nature.com
57 people have died in the chaotic scenes on the Spanish border with Morocco. After 50,000 people entered Spain from Morocco, over 9/10 (approx 96%) have returned to Morocco
Jorge Liboreiro@jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 5d agoUpdate: over 48,300 people have returned from Ceuta to Morocco. About 1,700 people are still in Ceuta.
And yet, Italy is suspending the Schengen agreement, although it is clear that people entering the enclave do not automatically gain the right to freely roam around the EU.
Best for Britain@bestforbritain.org · 5d agoTake note. "For years, Moscow has used migration and other sensitive topics to stoke fear and destabilize European countries." From the Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine 👇
🚨 New article published in Scientific Reports (open access): www.nature.com/articles/s41... #AcademicSky #climate #fireweather
I can't believe this is real (it is.). I tried it. I picked a coastal area and generated an image of a house collapsing into the ocean. It even labeled it "collapsed house." This is "digital asbestos" that is polluting our information environment - and could get people killed.
Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 5d agoI used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:
🚨 New article published in Scientific Reports (open access): www.nature.com/articles/s41... #AcademicSky #climate #fireweather
Our latest article "Major intensification of fire weather across southern Europe in recent decades" has been published in Nature's Scientific Reports (Open access). Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Major intensification of fire weather across southern Europe in recent decades - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Major intensification of fire weather across southern Europe in recent decades
nature.com
"If the forecasts are anything near correct, the current El Niño could cause $10 trillion in economic losses by 2032"
This El Niño is set to be the largest on record by a ‘mind-blowing margin’
Forecasters predict that the monster climate pattern will combine with global warming to push global temperatures in 2027 to new heights.
nature.com
Fires depend on: ♨️ Weather ⚡ Ignition 🍂 Fuel 🧯 Suppression In North America: ♨️ Climate change = hotter and drier ⚡Ignition = no real change 🍂 Fire deficit = more fuel 🧯Warmer nights = suppression is hard What should we do? 📉 Cut emissions ✅ 🔥 Controlled burns ✅ 🍁 Rake more? ❌ 🇨🇦 Be mean to Canada ❌
The Associated Press@apnews.com · last wk.Experts say the world is experiencing two opposing fire trends because of human impact.
Water flow in the Rhine river on its way to a new all time low. Red band: 5% lowest values for every date. Currently we're below the bottom: where the Rhine has never* gone before. Measured where it enters the Netherlands. Via www.linkedin.com/posts/niko-w... *) in recorded history, duh.
As climate change increases temperatures across Europe, invasive mosquitoes are spreading and introducing disease agents that Europeans would usually think about only when traveling to other continents. Scientists suggest we get used to it. Read the full story:
Tropical Diseases Like Dengue Fever and Chikungunya Are on the Rise in Europe
Climate change is helping invasive species to not only establish themselves across the continent but to stay alive for longer. Scientists suggest we get used to it.
wired.com
"If the forecasts are anything near correct, the current El Niño could cause $10 trillion in economic losses by 2032"
This El Niño is set to be the largest on record by a ‘mind-blowing margin’
Forecasters predict that the monster climate pattern will combine with global warming to push global temperatures in 2027 to new heights.
nature.com
If your government doesn’t treat the rapid reduction of greenhouse gas emissions & the rapid adaptation to the warming that is already baked in as its two organisational axes, what legitimacy does it still have? All other issues - the economy, defense, health, or AI - are extensions and enablers.
being a billionaire and on the internet all day is crazy to me. if i had even five million dollars, you would not find me online whatsoever.
What social media has done is make going around with a camera harassing your neighbors a viable career option. Quite a lucrative one, if you get really lucky. The fact we live in a world where you can make more money than a nurse or teacher by filming yourself arguing with strangers is insane.
"We will rebuild", says Macron. Yeah, perhaps, though not everyone will be able to afford it. But the heatwaves and droughts will keep getting worse, and there will be more and more to rebuild. Dead end street unless we reduce global emissions to (net) zero.
For many years, people didn’t randomly film others in public—not because we didn’t have the technology, but because the social contract said you didn’t do that. That’s why Meta is going full court press on their PR and celebrity endorsements. They remember how people ran google glass outta town.
Philip K. Dick couldn’t have invented a fictional company as good at eroding social trust and goodwill as Meta. It’s almost as if it’s their sole purpose.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last wk.“The vast majority of the talent and agents at our events felt that these were a violation of their privacy and were damaging and spoiling the interactions at the tables. Several expressed concerns that they might not continue to attend in-person events if they were being recorded in secret.”
Ten days of water. That is what is left in northern Italy. Salt from the Adriatic pushing upstream into soil that fed generations. Emergency meetings next week. Crops already turning. We bear witness to a land dying on a timeline measured in days, not decades. phys.org/news/2026-07...
Drought threatens irrigation in northern Italy
Water reserves are being depleted rapidly in northern Italy, threatening farming as the region's main river dries up, local officials warned Friday.
phys.org
My @bylinetimes.bsky.social investigation reveals a network of criminal complicity at heart of Reform UK rooted in identity fraud by George Cottrell - the criminal fraudster secretly funding Farage and Reform - in cahoots with a Reform treasurer and a casino owner 🧵 bylinetimes.com/2026/07/23/p...
‘Posh George’, Two Passports, and a Fraudulent Identity: Convicted Fraudster and Nigel Farage Funder's Connections to Reform UK’s Murky Financial Structures
Why did Reform UK change from being a privately-owned company to a non-profit company limited by guarantee in 2025? Nafeez Ahmed investigates a fraudulent identity used by George Cottrell – and how hi...
bylinetimes.com
Russian propagandist Dugin openly says that Russia needs a mobilization and that Putin must make the decision to go through with it. A new large-scale mobilization campaign in Russia in the fall of 2026 has not yet been announced⤵️
Thank God common sense prevailed, and President Zelenskyi listened to the calls of the army and society, appointing Mykhailo Drapatyi as the new AFU Commander-in-Chief. Drapatyi is a man of honor and grace, a battle-grown and hardened major general, who cares about human lives.
Welcome to my TED Talk on propaganda from people who appear to be on your side. Over the past few months, I have noticed a large influx of democratic, blue and “resist” accounts on Bluesky. Many already have very large followings.
