Prof. Vigdis Vandvik
@vvandvik.bsky.social
❤️🧠 Plants; Alpine; Ecology; Experiments; Biodiversity; Functional Ecology; GlobalChange; Macroecology; Science-Policy; Science Communication; HigherEd; She/her 🌾🌱📏⛰📈🌦🐑🔥⛰🌍🧪🚴♀️💪👟📎 #BtwnTheFjords #CESAM_UiB #UiB 🇳🇴
My Spanish champion is Pontevedra Mayor Miguel Anxo Fernández Lores, who kicked cars out of city center: “It's not my duty as mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. It's the same as if you bought a cow, or fridge, and then ask me where you're going to put them.”
This Spanish city has been restricting cars for 24 years. Here's what we can learn from it
Pontevedra, Spain, offers some of the best evidence available about what happens when a city is reconfigured to accommodate people, rather than cars.
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We didn't previously integrate wildfire-smoke costs into the supposed cost of climate change for the US, and it turns out to be bigger than all those other costs combined. Oops! Gosh I wonder if we're underestimating anything else. Probably shoulda done something about this. Ah well.
What Worries Me Most About This Wildfire Smoke
We didn’t know days like this could happen. Then we learned how bad they really are.
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Climate economics has by far been the legitimate discourse that has done the most to downplay the dangers of climate change. And it’s been the main lens though which policymakers—and non-scientist and non-climate journalists (and pundits)—have understood the crisis.
David Roberts@volts.wtf · 3w agoWe didn't previously integrate wildfire-smoke costs into the supposed cost of climate change for the US, and it turns out to be bigger than all those other costs combined. Oops! Gosh I wonder if we're underestimating anything else. Probably shoulda done something about this. Ah well.
For decades, elected officials with the power to act ignored increasingly serious CO2 warnings. insideclimatenews.org/news/1507202...
#Riksrevisor kritiserer @kld.regjeringen.no og @kdd.regjeringen.no for å ikke legge til rette for at vi som samfunn kan stoppe #naturtapet. Til tross for at kunnskapsbasert forvaltning av arealene har vært et mål i 25 år. Her er rapporten: www.riksrevisjonen.no/rapporter-ma...
Riksrevisor: Verdifull natur blir bygget ned
Viktig natur kan gå tapt uten at beslutningstaker har tilstrekkelig kunnskap. Nedbygging av areal har en betydelig påvirkning på både naturmangfold og utslipp av klimagasser.
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Vi gjør alt for lite, for sakte, dessverre. #riksrevisjonen kom nylig med ramsalt kritikk av norsk #arealforvaltning: Vi bygger ned norsk #natur som aldri før, uten å vite hva vi taper. I @energiogklima.no snakker @larsursin.bsky.social og jeg om dette www.energiogklima.no/to-grader/ek...
Norge bygger ned natur uten å vite hva vi taper
Norsk forvaltning mangler kunnskapen som trengs for å ta informerte beslutninger om natur og klima, viser rapport fra Riksrevisjonen. Men problemet stikker mye dypere enn kartlegging av natur, sier pr...
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"Og vi må kanskje våge å tenke litt nytt omkring hva vi egentlig trenger for å leve trygge, gode, meningsfylte liv." Dette har ikke blitt mindre sant, eller presserende, på de fire årene som har gått. Min tekst var oppspill til hoveddebatten på #Arendalsuka det året. Så hva har skjedd siden da?
"Vi må unngå enkle løsninger, som å fokusere ensidig på å plante trær eller bygge ut kraft, men isteden legge til rette for å utvikle samfunnet innenfor de arealene og med de ressursene vi allerede har tatt i bruk. "
"Skal vi få til dette, må vi bli bedre på flerbruk av arealene og gjenbruk av materialene, fremfor forbruk av stadig mer natur og ressurser."
I kommentaren i @dagensnaeringsliv.bsky.social pekte jeg også på at det *finnnes* løsninger! Jeg skrev "Heldigvis er det håp – for naturen har en unik evne til å ta seg inn igjen. Hvis vi bare gir den sjansen. Og det beste vi kan gjøre for naturen er rett å slett å gi den litt mer plass."
Jeg har skrevet om hvordan lyden, lukten, og smaken av sommer gradvis forsvinner fordi vi ikke greier å bremse #naturtap i Norge @dagensnaeringsliv.bsky.social. Dette var i 2022, men teksten er stadig like aktuell, dessverre. #sommersorg #endringsblindhet #naturkrise www.dn.no/innlegg/natu...
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Vi kan være de siste generasjonene som opplever arter som villaks, vipe, makrellterne og fjellrev. Tapet av natur er ikke bare trist, det er også skadelig for oss.
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Dette. @theguardian.com har gjenskapt lyden av fuglekvitter en typisk sommermorgen gjennom 50 år. En trist og tankevekkende illustrasjon av hvordan naturen forsvinner mellom fingrene på oss. Så sakte at vi ikke legger merke til det. #sommersorg #naturkrise #endringsblindhet
The Guardian@theguardian.com · last mo.Listen to Britain’s dawn chorus of 1976: the dramatic loss of birdsong in 50 years
We have a fully funded PhD position on European eel! Please spread! 🐟 🪱 Main supervisor Josefin Sundin @josefin-sundin.bsky.social at SLU Aqua Stockholm (scholar.google.com/citations?us...). Apply through the portal: www.slu.se/en/about-slu...
Albania’s flamingos meet the Trump family bulldozers - This stretch of Albania’s coast was a nature reserve cherished by migrating birds — one of the last wild areas on the Adriatic www.ft.com/content/55fe... via @FT: #JaredKushner #DonaldTrump #IvankaTrump #ClimateEmergency
Albania’s flamingos meet the Trump family bulldozers
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump plan a luxury residential complex that locals say will threaten a natural reserve
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Dette. @theguardian.com har gjenskapt lyden av fuglekvitter en typisk sommermorgen gjennom 50 år. En trist og tankevekkende illustrasjon av hvordan naturen forsvinner mellom fingrene på oss. Så sakte at vi ikke legger merke til det. #sommersorg #naturkrise #endringsblindhet
The Guardian@theguardian.com · last mo.Listen to Britain’s dawn chorus of 1976: the dramatic loss of birdsong in 50 years
Listen to Britain’s dawn chorus of 1976: the dramatic loss of birdsong in 50 years
Listen to Britain’s dawn chorus of 1976: the dramatic loss of birdsong in 50 years
Guardian recreates audio landscape of past filled by loud morning symphony before 73m wild birds were lost
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#ForestFriday Large boulders covered in moss bear witness to their Ice Age past. They give Scandinavian #Forests their typical structure of wilderness… #Trees #Nature ##Photography #EastCoastKin
“The city’s transition away from the car, tho fantastically chaotic, has become a global role model. Under mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social, Paris was ‘the most influential city in the world’ says Canadian urbanist Brent Toderian. Hidalgo, stepping down after 12 yrs, exulted: ‘The bike beat the car.’”
How Paris beat the car
Though chaotic, the city’s transition has become a global role model
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Remember this picture, & others like it, every time you hear someone in your city say "we're not Amsterdam." This was #Amsterdam in the 1970s. Many of the cities we admire made tough choices regarding cars in the past, and are still making better choices today. Better choices instead of excuses.
A nice summary of why ecological #stoichiometry is fundamental 🧪🌐
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · last mo.Growing kelp might not be a viable CO₂ removal technique.
Recommended read: OpenDemocracy reported on a “religious cult” spreading climate misinformation in “parliaments” and at “COP summits”.
Inside the doomsday ‘cult’ spreading climate disinformation to global leaders
In Parliaments, TikTok and COP summits, AllatRa spread claims that greenhouse gases are not main cause of climate crisis
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Fossil fuel propaganda said “more CO2 benefits plants”. Indeed plant biomass is increasingly globally. But plants are made up of more than just carbon. Other plant nutrients, all essential, are being diluted by all that extra atmospheric carbon. #GreenDeserts www.newscientist.com/article/2531...
A promising natural technique to remove CO2 could backfire
Several start-ups have tried to grow seaweed to remove atmospheric CO2, but this could affect the levels of nutrients in the ocean and hamper other CO2-sucking processes
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UN Secretary General: Cutting methane is the single fastest brake we can pull on a warming planet.
This is a great time to read The Heat Will Kill You First by @jeffgoodell.bsky.social . Heat sneaks up on people in unexpected ways, and we don't take it seriously enough. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hea...
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