Olaf Corry

I never really started, but mainly force of habit. Must blue better.

CSER is looking for a part-time Research Assistant to work closely with Centre Director Prof S. M. Amadae (@amadae.bsky.social)

Deadline: 6 July 2025
Find out more and apply below ⬇️
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51403/

Direct Air Capture (DAC) without the hot air?

Interesting calculations on the mind-boggling scales involved if plans to mechanically capture and store CO2 from the atmosphere for global climate abatement are taken seriously.

By @cer54.bsky.social

mlg.eng.cam.ac.uk/carl/climate...

Awesome...

Why did 30 Met officers kick the door down at a teenage tea and biscuits meeting in a Quaker house? When six young women hired a room to discuss the war in Gaza, the gathering ended with 30 officers storming in to make arrests

Apparently this was 'intelligence-led':

"30 Metropolitan police officers, some armed with stun guns, smashed down the door of the Grade II-listed building and arrested the young women inside."

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Inter 7-6 Barcelona, the greatest two-legged semi-final of all time? - Football Weekly Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Jonathan Fadugba and Mark Langdon as Inter beat Barcelona 7-6 on aggregate after an absolutely thrilling two legged tie in the Champions League

4 people having a lovely time discussing Inter Barca @barryglendenning.bsky.social , Mark Langdon and Jonathan Fadugba @footballweekly.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/football/aud...

Still only roughly one sixth of Exxon's total investment expenditure, and conditional on Biden money and tax-breaks continuing.
At least 5/6ths, probably more, to be spent on high-carbon fossil processes - forwards to 2030!

And how low is 'low carbon', really?

Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime | George Monbiot The horrifying planning bill, which rips up environmental protections, was drafted with CEOs in mind. We know because Keir Starmer told us, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Just read it. @georgemonbiot.bsky.social is right. What more can I add? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It never ends. She’s dead, along with her entire family. #FreePalestine The Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassona, killed along with ten family members in an Israeli air strike on her home in northern Gaza, is the star of a doc…

Visions of the One Planet: The Planetary Age in International and Environmental History “We know that you don’t have the power to stop a transaction, but for goodness’ sake, we are all on the same planet.”- Congressional Representative John Co

Fascinating article 👇 #HistIR academic.oup.com/dh/advance-a...

"Forsvarsanskaffelser er en god kandidat til å toppe den uhellige kåringen av det temaet som er av størst samfunnsmessig viktighet og har den høyeste økonomisk kostnad – men som er gjenstand for minst kvalifisert analyse og debatt." @bergtora.bsky.social
statogstyring.no/en-samfunnsv...

The Economist's racist, deceitful spiel on Gaza taken apart This is a case study in Western media complicity in genocide

I used to admire The Economist for being well reasoned even if I disagreed.

The Economist's racist, deceitful spiel on Gaza taken apart www.owenjones.news/p/the-econom...

Fascinating paper by Jenny Andersson and E. Rindzeviciute on the "co-production of technoscience and political governance that was explicated in the work of IIASA", and a resulting "redefinition of the world and reshaping of the political role of technoscience"

sciencespo.hal.science/hal-01361235/

The "Energy Transition" is a Pipe Dream | Jean-Baptiste Fressoz How a niche phrase in atomic science became policy

The idea of an 'energy transition' falsely projects a history of technological change onto the cumulative history of energy/materials. - Fascinating insight.

The "Energy Transition" is a Pipe Dream | Jean-Baptiste Fressoz www.planetcritical.com/p/jean-bapti...

How One Company Wants to Make Geoengineering Profitable Stardust, an Israeli-U.S. startup, intends to patent its unique technology for temporarily cooling the planet.

Fascinating read: science, start-ups, security state, solar radiation modification and secrecy - all in one ill boding story.
undark.org/2025/03/17/s...

"like all techne - the extraordinary sophistication of these
technologies coexists, cooperates in an essential way with sophistry, psycho-rhetoric, and the most cursory, the most archaic, the most crudely opinionated psychagogy, the most
vulgar psychology" - Derrida on nukes and nuke-speak.

Selv børn blev rykket op med rode, transporteret langt væk og tvunget ind i nye og ofte seksuelle relationer Dansk kolonihistorie er for øjeblikket rødglødende. Forholdet til Grønland diskuteres heftigt, og nu hælder DR mere benzin på bålet med dramadokumentaren ’Slave af Danmark’, som får tv-premiere i afte...

Velskrevet og oplysende essay af historiker Niels Brimnes om dansk slaveri. Argumenter og oplysninger fremfor holdninger i præcis fremstilling af afgørende karakteristika ved forskellige typer af slaveri - illustreret ved eksempler fra Caribien, Osmannerriget, Nord- og Vestafrika.
shorturl.at/rbl5T

Carbon removal is the next big fossil fuel boom, oil company says Occidental wants to use climate tech to boost oil and gas production.

'Carbon removal is the next big fossil fuel boom, oil company says' www.theverge.com/news/616662/...

Occidental CEO about Direct Air Capture originally funded by Biden adm & corporations to pursue net-zero:
“We believe the next round of technology that’s going to add significant barrels - 50 to 70 bn barrels of reserves - will be production that comes from the use of CO2 in enhanced oil recovery”.

Keir Starmer to carry out largest cut to UK overseas aid in history NGOs accuse prime minister of following US by accepting ‘false choice’ of cutting aid to fund defence

Russian military spending over past decade = roughly two thirds the combined UK & France total, and roughly half the combined UK + France + Germany total (source: SIPRI)

Those who think even more should be spent should be made to work a lot harder to justify it

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities Active travel can help tackle the climate crisis earlier than electric vehicles – even if you swap the car for a bike for just one trip a day.

Cycling is 10 times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities and 100 times more fun.

Solar geoengineering research faces geopolitical deadlock The permissive “science first” approach has failed, but a nondeployment deal might yet enable responsible research

In a new article in Science this month www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @olafcorry.bsky.social and I argue that the geopolitics of solar radiation modification (SRM) demands prior agreement on non-deployment to make space for well-governed research. (Abridged here, but still a long thread ... 2/33)

There is something really spooky going on at the Presidential Inauguration. Apparently, no women can enter the room where it is happening unless they are on the arm of a man, who appears to be there to guide them, as if they are unable to walk unaided. Is this the new America that Trump wants?

More fascinating research on expertise in IR. Excited to read 👇 Congrats @olafcorry.bsky.social, @nikolajkornbech.bsky.social, and Duncan McLaren

A brilliant analysis of the “science-first, governance later” approach that still dominates geoengineering debates from @duncanmclaren.bsky.social and @olafcorry.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/full/10....

So will it also merit disclosure when signatories to the pro-solar geoengineering research open letters, basically arguing for speeding up research absent international governance, publish articles in Science on the subject? Perhaps that's a different matter?
Anyway, what bit do you wish to contest?

Wut? We state there was lobbying. We also mention it was mostly skeptical. We argue it would be facile *to suggest country positions were determined* by that. You disagree? *Also* we don't say scientific research wd be "useless". We argue assuming this would clear up int. disagreement is foolish.

Yes sorry I meant your highlighted article.

What is anti-research about it? If anything it argues for broader spectrum and more coordinated research. But the premise is that governance (of deployment) should come first because a) it is needed and widely agreed on, 2) the evidence suggests governed research likely won't come at all without it.

Kan de ’nye’ og ’gamle’ materialismer forsones? | Eftertryk Mads Ejsing’s forsvar for nymaterialismen kalder på forsoning mellem to fremvoksende grene af venstrefløjstænkning. Ifølge Ejsing kan både den ’nye materialismes’ betoning af ikke-menneskel

Har skrevet om @madsejsing.bsky.social's nye bog 'Verden er ikke længere den samme' for Eftertryk. Hvor krydser klingerne egentlig mellem nymaterialister og økomarxister? Og er der et fælles projekt? Læs mit bud her: www.eftertrykket.dk/2025/01/12/k...