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peter sabaini

@peter.sabaini.at

Techie, herbivore, climate worrier. Er/he

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peter sabaini@peter.sabaini.at · 3d ago

"extreme heat, fire, droughts displacing > 200000 and killing > 20000 in Europe, happens on a 1.4°C planet. We are inevitably breaching 1.5°C and heading towards 3°C. It will get worse before it potentially gets better (if we urgently change course)" - jrockström www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/w...

Europe’s Summer of Reckoning Is ‘Just the Beginning’ (Gift Article)

The continent is experiencing some of its biggest fires and highest temperatures ever. Residents are fleeing, leaders are struggling to respond and “it will get worse,” one climate expert said.

nytimes.com

Wolfgang Rössler@wolfiroessler.jetzt.at · 3d ago

Es müsste nicht ganz so heiß sein Wien, zumindest nicht in der Nacht. Wäre die Stadtregierung beispielsweise etwas mutiger gegenüber der Autolobbby. Was, nebenbei bemerkt, klassische sozialdemokratische Politik für die Schwächsten der Gesellschaft wäre. www.jetzt.at/artikel/snUS...

Wien ist anders. Als Paris zum Beispiel Warum die Autos in der Hauptstadt noch immer Vorrang haben

Warum der Klimaschutz in Wien nicht wirklich ein Leiberl hat.

jetzt.at

Armin Wolf@arminwolf.at · 3d ago

FoxNews, der wichtigste Sender der MAGA-Crowd, verlegt Ceuta von Nordafrika nach Nordspanien und der US-Vizepräsident verbreitet die FakeNews weiter. Und Millionen Amerikaner·innen glauben die Lüge. (via @chorherr.bsky.social)

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they)@doctorvive.bsky.social · 6d ago

Notable: In its 15th 5-Year Plan, China pledges for the first time to "constructively lead the multilateral governance process to address climate change,” so that its "influence, guiding capacity, shaping power and moral appeal in global climate governance will be significantly enhanced."

The language reflects a recent shift from China's previous positioning, when the nation - the world's largest source of greenhouse gas emissions - had described itself in official documents "as a participant, contributor and leader" in global climate efforts.
Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 3w ago

So far this year we've had: the warmest winter on record in the mountain west, a record-shattering heat wave in Europe, once in a thousand year rainfall and flooding texas and forest fire smoke blanketing the mid west and the north east. Feels like something's going on with the climate!

Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 4w ago

I adore you Leon, Egyptologist here, they were built by a largely volunteer force (corvée labor) of 25,000. The builders were very well fed, paid in bread and beer, and received excellent medical care. There was no slavery whatsoever, it is a common misconception.

leon@leyawn.bsky.social · 4w ago

um, so everyone cheering on egypt in the world cup realizes how the pyramids were built right? but i guess that's a conversation you're not ready to have

Costa Samaras@costasamaras.com · last mo.

Here’s what the air conditioning discourse illuminates: to deal with climate change we need to electrify & we need zero carbon electricity, we also need more electricity- like double or triple what we have. And we need more cooling & cooling equity. There will be folks fighting against all of that.

Florian Aigner@florianaigner.at · last mo.

Die Hitze macht auch vor den Wehrlosen in unserer Gesellschaft nicht Halt - den Autos. Wir brauchen jetzt eine nationale Förderungsinitiative für den Umstieg auf Monstertrucks, die mit aufgerissenem Asphalt problemlos zurecht kommen und sich für die Mad-Max-Endzeitkämpfe der Zukunft eignen.

Screenshot: "Geplatzter Asphalt, Tempolimits, Sperrungen - Schon elf Autobahnen kaputt", darunter ein Bild von einer aufgebrochenen Asphaltfläche.
Katharine Hayhoe@katharinehayhoe.com · last mo.

This discussion puts its finger squarely on one of the two thorniest issues of geoengineering - namely that, to succeed, it would require multidecadal stable and rational governance of the countries and entities involved. How's that going, these days?

Michael E. Mann@michaelemann.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Termination Shock — The Existential Danger Of Geoengineering" by Steve Hanley for @cleantechnica.bsky.social: cleantechnica.com/2026/06/21/t...

Tom Chivers@tomchivers.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A bunch of European AI policy and engineering guys asked me to help out on this project and it's been fascinating and chilling: what happens to the EU if it doesn't step up on AI (in short, economic collapse and vassalage to the US/China) europe2031.ai long but I hope worth it!

Europe 2031 — What getting AI wrong means for us

A five-year scenario about AI and Europe's impending slide into irrelevance, with a 2034 epilogue that describes how the collapse of the European model could have been prevented.

europe2031.ai

Mar Hicks@histoftech.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Chinese researchers have created a bamboo-based plastic as strong as petroleum-based plastics, which can fully biodegrade in soil in just 2 months phys.org/news/2025-10...

Bamboo-based plastic can be made to biodegrade quickly, but still holds up in tough conditions

A new method to produce strong, biodegradable plastic from bamboo is reported in Nature Communications this week. The bioplastic resembles oil-based plastics in strength, shapability, and thermal stab...

phys.org

peter sabaini@peter.sabaini.at · 3mo ago

#OE1 I love you guys but please can you stop with cringe fearmongering around cybersecurity and AI? No #Mythos is not a "Hacker-AI". No Mythos cant access every phone on the planet. No, just because some contractors had access for a time doesn't mean "the program" ...