Willem Huiskamp

I'm pulling out my hair watching colleagues double down on this stuff. Ethical issues aside (urgh...), these tools are just not delivering!

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
- Philip K. Dick

Russia’s Coal Collapse Marks The End Of Fossil Fuel Post-War Illusion Russia’s Coal Collapse signals the end of the fossil era. From bankrupt mines to battery booms, the global energy transition is accelerating but facing political resistance.

"Russia’s coal industry has entered free-fall. Once a pillar of post-Soviet industry, it is now losing money faster than the Kremlin can rescue it."

Finally some good news

Over and over again, establishment journalists just refuse to describe Republican policies and beliefs in plain language to mislead the public. The GOP says it is purging liberals from academia and journalists reframe it as “rebuilding trust.” That is not journalism, it is regime propaganda.

Russia’s Coal Collapse Marks The End Of Fossil Fuel Post-War Illusion Russia’s Coal Collapse signals the end of the fossil era. From bankrupt mines to battery booms, the global energy transition is accelerating but facing political resistance.

Highly recommend reading this whole thing but if you take away one thing, I'd recommend it be this bit as this is at the heart of why things are changing so fast.

"Batteries are doing for electricity what silos once did for grain: turning abundance into reliability."

What fresh new hell is this. The AI bubble cannot burst soon enough

There are basically only two positions in the debate about AI.
1. This fucking sucks.
2. I’m a complete idiot.

Position #2 has lower barriers to entry.

And even then, if an accident occurs and these people are driving *responsibly*, people on the receiving end of an impact are still more likely do die. There is no world in which merely driving responsibly eliminates the increased harm these stupid cards do.

Queensland’s pandering to climate deniers is making it even tougher for Australia to drive down emissions | Clear Air Queensland is Australia’s top polluter – even worse than Western Australia, which has no climate target and adores its fossil fuel industry

“Its energy roadmap, released on Friday, can’t really be interpreted as anything other than a transparently political document, designed to placate climate deniers that have a stranglehold on significant parts of the state’s governing party.”

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Just arriving here. Let the adventure begin.

Expect: ice, climate science, quirky notes and insights.

The #JuneauIcefield is a deeply meaningful place for me and many others, part of the reason we put so much care into our case study on tipping of Áakʼw Tʼáak Sítʼ (Mendenhall Glacier), one of the icefield's major outlet glaciers.

The study is out today as part of the Global Tipping Points Report.

Quantifying the regional to global climate impacts of individual fossil fuel projects to inform decision-making - npj Climate Action npj Climate Action - Quantifying the regional to global climate impacts of individual fossil fuel projects to inform decision-making

For so long, fossil fuel projects have said their contribution to climate change is "negligible".
Turns out that's wrong.
Our research in NPJ Climate Action proves it.
Every tonne of CO2 matters.
@21stcenturyweather.bsky.social
@minderoo.bsky.social
#climatechange
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

I know Jane Goodall was revered by many in the environment movement, but it is pretty clear that she also harboured many seriously problematic colonial attitudes.

The 'overpopulation' stuff in particular was pretty bad, and as a concept the conduit of plenty of serious wrongdoing over the years

this is an explicitely nazi administration and anyone who still supports them should be viewed as such

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

Solidarity with @mark-bray.bsky.social, a fantastic, thoughtful, and generous scholar whose work about antifa is so important in this moment.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

How Albanese killed the climate wars Podcast Episode · 7am · 08/10/2025 · 15m

Some frank words about the hollow rhetoric that now stands as Labor’s climate policy, and how its PR-first strategy has been rewarded by the media. Thanks to 7am

What happens when the MBAs take over.

Yeah I was frustrated by this, too. He also never addressed the theft of IP that trains these models, nor the insane environmental impact. Really disappointing tbh.

Well that's incredibly disappointing...

Screenshot of figures from the paper: Above a graph showing wiggly lines depicting the cumulative mass budget of Antarctica: a dark line swoops and wiggles downwards before stabilising at the end, colourful dashed lines (depicting snow fall) wiggle along constantly before sloping upwards at the same tme stabilisation occurs. Below 6 maps of Antarctica in blues and red depicting the mass change in different basins.

🚨 New @oceaniceeu.bsky.social preprint🚨 why has Antarctica stopped (net) losing mass, in spite of increased discharge?
Declining sea ice is part of the answer but increasingly heavy and frequent atmospheric rivers are most important factor.

Lots of important subtleties:
arxiv.org/abs/2510.03590

Top tier shade being thrown at Germany here

Cheers for always posting all this great new research 👍

The Collapse of Confidence in Carbon Capture | OilPrice.com Carbon Capture and Storage, once seen as a lifeline for the oil and gas industry, is facing mounting doubts as delays, high costs, and poor performance cast serious doubts on its future viability.

The jig is up for CCS and DAC.

oilprice.com/Energy/Energ...

If you drive a 2025/2026 Tesla or still use X, there really isn't an excuse. You really are just an asshole that looks the other way.

Of course, but apparently asking people to fly less voluntarily isn't working so a carbon price and some sort of frequent fliers tax would already go a long way towards changing behaviour. For the non millionaires anyway...

The transition to renewables is more or less inevitable now, but the next big fight will be with the meat industry

It wouldn't be so bad if the climate cost of flying was actually priced into the ticket.

Yeah it’s up to a story a day at this point. Now to put this toothpaste back in the bottle real quick,

And not only for work. I still know a lot of colleagues who will happily jet half way around the world each year on vacation.