Frederik Hoedeman

Economics seminar announcement: "Learning with Economists in Petro-Rich Economies: Climate Change Policies in Russia" by Gerhard Toews (University of Stavanger), July 8, 13:30 CET, hybrid format.

How do people in #Russia feel about #ClimateChange & what information influences their opinions? More in our next economics talk w/ Gerhard Toews (@unistavanger.bsky.social), who will discuss effective communication of climate policy.
📅 8 July | 13:30 CET | Hybrid
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Bursting the bubble: Europe is capable of phasing out Russian gas ahead of schedule For the first time, European sanctions have struck at Russia’s gas sector — “the heart of its war economy,” as European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen put it. Imports of Russian liquefied n...

Bursting the bubble: Europe is capable of phasing out Russian gas ahead of schedule

The EU is no longer facing an energy crisis, and Russia has overestimated its own indispensability, explains economist Vladimir Milov.

Markets latest: Gas price soars 93% since start of conflict Drone strikes across the Middle East and Iran's effective closure of a key shipping route are spooking investors and traders. Follow the latest on the global markets.

This is a good moment for Europe & UK to remember that they can stick up wind and solar, insulates houses, far quicker than they can find new gas in e.g. North Sea

If you're chasing more gas, it's now a case of which unreliable regime you prefer to depend on

news.sky.com/story/market...

Forsker: Rusland er ikke kun en militær trussel. Kreml tager hele planeten som gidsel ved at obstruere klimahandling - Altinget Den russiske invasion af Ukraine handler ikke kun om territorium, men også om at sabotere Europas grønne omstilling. Putins regime ser klimapolitikken som en trussel mod sin fossile magt, skriver Mett...

"Den russiske invasion af Ukraine handler ikke kun om territorium, men også om at sabotere Europas grønne omstilling. Putins regime ser klimapolitikken som en trussel mod sin fossile magt".

Ambitiøs klimapolitik er ikke i konkurrence med oprustningen af forsvaret – men dens strategiske supplement.

Revealed: 10 new insights in climate science Each year, the world’s leading climate scientists evaluate the most critical evidence on how our planet is changing. Their assessments draw heavily on data from Earth-observing satellites – and the la...

”The planet’s energy balance is drifting further out of alignment, ocean warming is now accelerating, and the land’s capacity to absorb carbon is declining, along with other troubling trends.”

#ClimateHeating

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When the climate shifts, it squeezes the safe climatic space of grasslands, says lead author Chaohui Li in @cnn.com interview. The researchers find that world's grasslands could shrink by half as climate change becomes more intense, threatening global food systems.
edition.cnn.com/2026/02/27/w...

Front cover of CO2 Newsletter Vol 1 no 4, April 1980

Vol. 1, no.4 of the CO2 Newsletter, first published in April 1980 (that's not a typo) is now downloadable. Founded by American geologist William Barbat, each was 8 pages of excerpts from recent reports, editorials and deeply researched articles.

1/9
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Climate change: Doom versus gloom Should we hope for the best and prepare for the worst when tackling climate change?

"Thinking through the implications of 4C warming shows that the impacts are so significant that the only real adaptation strategy is to avoid that at all cost because of the pain & suffering that is going to cost. There is no science on how we are going to adapt to 4C warming" @neiladger.bsky.social

21.1°C in Chamonix today! 🔥🥵

A monthly record for February since at least 1880! 🌡️

Words truly fail to describe such early heatwaves, which are so out of season and detrimental to ecosystems.

Map via @sergezaka.bsky.social

Sarenne Glacier (Grandes Rousses, Alpe d'Huez)
1906 | 2025

Sarenne Glacier has gone few years ago (~2023)! ✝️
In July 1965, it was the 1st summer ski site in France! ⛷️

This is the future of all Alpine glaciers this century!

You can't say you didn't know...🧐

📷 G. Flusin/E. Thibert via PNE

tfw when your governor talks about your pet issue...

__parking reform__

@parkingreform.org

And you can’t even walk from one to the other if the first choice is full.

Double 🤦🏻‍♂️

A self-driving car traffic jam is coming for US cities A century ago, cars remade America. Autonomous vehicles could do it again.

This is exactly what I warned about in my keynote at a transportation conference in Florida this week (and previously wrote about in @vox.com, below).

AVs make car use easier, which will lead people to take more (and longer) car trips.

More car use --> More congestion.

New meta-analysis of 26 published studies concludes that AVs will lead people to use cars a lot more — which would thicken congestion and worsen pollution (even if AVs are electric).

"AV deployment is anticipated to lead to an overall increase in Vehicle Miles Traveled."

doi.org/10.1016/j.tb...

Bombings in Iran raise fears of oil crisis The closure of the Strait of Hormuz and US-Israeli strikes in Iran are reigniting the specter of a surge in crude oil prices. But the global economy is less vulnerable today than it was during the 197...

Another reason why countries that are pushing for transport electrification will benefit!

Breaking their reliance on petrostates!

www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/a...

💥👍✌️

This news comes in the same week that Volkswagen reached the milestone of 2 million electric cars produced. Of course, there are other brands producing in Germany, so EVs are clearly also an export product.

Dokumentasjonsrapport: Helseeffekter av fysisk aktivitet per km gange og sykling

Guess the 167-page report attacking public transit does not EXACTLY highlight the social effects of public health, environmental and similar arguments 😅

Note fx this 2025 Norwegian Health Minestry report on benefits of increased walking and cycling

🚲 ~€2.8/km of cycling
🚶‍♀️ ~€4.2/km of walking

A powerful Wine Country family is trying to kill the SMART train with a book This book makes the case that taxpayer support should end for a 48-mile long passenger rail system connecting the Bay Area’s fifth largest city with small cities and towns across two counties.

Wealthy elites paid for a 167-page screed attacking public transit because, "The train will never pay for itself."

Wait until they hear about "free" parking!

Can’t park there mate

Ten countries looking at the model of National Emergency Briefing, could this include any Nordic countries. Perhaps Iceland? As Iceland is the first country to designate the potential collapse of a Atlantic Meridional Current system a national security concern and an existential threat.

We are sharing the National Emergency Briefing model internationally.

So far, there are groups looking at replicating the NEB in ten countries.

We’ve sharing everything will work with our international friends to help.

We expect the first iNEB to launch within the next week.

Stefan Rahmstorf zum Kipppunkt im Atlantik: „AMOC hat 15 Prozent Kraft verloren“ Seit 35 Jahren erforscht Stefan Rahmstorf die Atlantikströmung AMOC. Seine Studien zeigen: Die Strömung schwächt sich ab. Kippt sie, hat das drastische Auswirkungen für Europa und die Welt

Seit 35 Jahren erforscht Stefan Rahmstorf die Atlantikströmung AMOC. Seine Studien zeigen: Die Strömung schwächt sich ab. Kippt sie, hat das drastische Auswirkungen für Europa und die Welt (F+)

www.freitag.de/autoren/der-...

Abrupt Gulf Stream path changes are a precursor to a collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation - Communications Earth & Environment The northward shift and rapid displacement of the Gulf Stream provide an indirect early warning of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation weakening and collapse, revealed by both high-resolution ...

Another potential early warning sign of an AMOC collapse described by vanWesten and Dijkstra. “These findings provide indirect evidence for present-day AMOC weakening and demonstrate that abrupt Gulf Stream shifts can serve as early warning indicator for AMOC tipping”

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Reframing misinformation as informational-systemic risk in the age of societal volatility | HKS Misinformation Review When a bank run, a pandemic, or an election spirals out of control, the spark is often informational. In 2023, rumors online helped accelerate the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. During COVID-19, fal...

The danger of misinformation lies "...in its capacity to undermine...confidence in science, the legitimacy of elections, and shared historical narratives...[S]ystemic risk analysis...helps clarify why misinformation should be understood as a structural condition..." See following link 👇🏼

Den snabba ökningen av ppm är allt annat än hållbar.
Så låt oss kriga dessutom!

Europe’s energy transition is well underway but it is far from uniform.

In 25 European countries, non-fossil fuel sources now generate the majority of electricity, a clear sign of how deeply clean power has penetrated the system.

So, any other news yesterday?
Anything important?

Front cover of Healthy Ageing in a Changing Climate report

This came out a few years ago but if you're interested in our main report from the project, you can read it here:

'Healthy Ageing in a Changing Climate: Creating Inclusive, Age-Friendly, and Climate Resilient Cities and Communities in the UK'
researchportal.hw.ac.uk/en/publicati...

Yasheng Huang: "China is building alternative energy sources on par with fossil fuels. In terms of its carbon footprint, the country still emits twice as much CO2 as Europe and the US. I don't think it's a transformation".