Carsten Damgaard

Åndelig oprustning begynder med anerkendelsen af årtiers forsømmelse af dansk humaniora Vi kan ikke komme den nuværende åndsrust til livs uden fra politisk side at erkende, at vi i sandhed befinder os ved en europæisk skillevej

Vidste du, at ånd - ikke kun metal - kan ruste? Trods kald til åndelig oprustning er ånden ved at ruste i Danmark efter mange års politisk underprioritering og signalering om humanistiske kompetencers mindre værd. Læs vores dystopi i dagens @information.dk www.information.dk/debat/2025/0...

Af frygt for repressalier har Vincent Hendricks afstået for at rejse til x-uni i USA og holde oplæg. Universitetet meddelte at de ikke kunne garantere for repressalier fra statens side ift. VHs forskning om bl.a. fake news og misinformation #fmdk #dkforsk #forskpol

EU issues US-bound staff with burner phones to avoid espionage European Commission officials heading to IMF and World Bank spring meetings advised to travel with basic devices

💥 Whopper scoop from @andybounds.bsky.social:

Brussels is issuing burner phones & basic laptops to commissioners & senior officials travelling to the US for IMF/World Bank spring meetings next week to avoid risk of espionage — a measure traditionally reserved for China.

www.ft.com/content/20d0...

Australian academics refuse to attend US conferences for fear of being detained ‘When academics fear travelling or partnering with US institutions, the impacts ripple through the entire global knowledge ecosystem,’ one says

“When our academics fear travelling to major conferences or partnering with US institutions, the impacts ripple through the entire global knowledge ecosystem.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Hemmelige emails afslører: Betændt strid om Novo-finansierede atomkraft-rapporter Novo Nordisk Fonden har finansieret analyser, som tegner et usædvanlig positivt billede af økonomien bag kommende atomkraftværker i Danmark. Topforskere beskylder tænketanken bag analyserne for at mal...

Det er simpelthen umuligt for de akraftglade at forestille sig, at et land der i forvejen har meget sektorkobling (grundet fjernvarme), meget variabel VE og meget tilkobling til andre lande har andre forudsætninger til akraft end andre lande 🤪
finans.dk/erhverv/ECE1...

Chart showing polling on which countries Germans trust most

Only 16% of Germans trust the US.

Norway fuel giant 'refuses to fill US submarines' after Trump-Zelensky clash Norwegian petroleum giant Haltbakk Bunkers has declared it will no longer help the US Navy.

www.express.co.uk/news/world/2...

Ligger der en selvstænding øvelse i at træne vores evne til forsvarsteknologisk innovation - agilt og hurtigt? Når ikke kan forud og planlægge alt, så må der også ligge en kapabilitet i at kunne det.

Trump keeps tariffs on table in call with Denmark on Greenland

Trump keeps tariffs on table in call with Denmark on Greenland

And for those who care, here is the same graph with a quadratic trendline. There is no question but that global sea surface temperatures are accelerating updwards.

Here you have it, the five-year running mean for global sea surface temperatures, showing the impact of 5+ billion Hiroshima bombs worth of heating, and the massive rise in ocean heat content.

The five-year running mean dampens most of the impacts from ENSO and other short-term cycles.

Climate Models Can’t Explain What’s Happening to Earth Global warming is moving faster than the best models can keep a handle on.

Hi pals. Today I wrote about the unsettling mismatches between what climate models say should be happening and what is actually happening. We're pushing the Earth past the limits of our physical understanding. This is a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

Here is the 36-month running mean for CO2 growth.

1) Compute the running mean level of atmospheric CO2 over 36-months.

2) For any given date's 36-month running mean of CO2, subtract the running mean from 36 months earlier and plot that point.

3) Freak out that CO2 growth is increasing again!

🚨 Last year's average #Antarctic sea ice extent was the 2nd lowest on record (after 2023)...

Data averaged from January to December (NSIDC; nsidc.org/data/seaice_...).

Another new record daily low for Arctic sea-ice extent yesterday. Extent is now over 300,000 square kilometers below the previous record low for the day.

That's five-for-five in '25!

Line graph time series of 2025's daily Arctic sea ice extent compared to decadal averages from the 1980s to the 2010s. The decadal averages are shown with different colored lines with purple for the 1980s, blue for the 1990s, green for the 2000s, and white for the 2010s. Thin white lines are also shown for each year from 2000 to 2024. 2025 is shown with a thick gold line. There is a long-term decreasing trend in ice extent for every day of the year shown on this graph between January and April by looking at the decadal average line positions.

Sorry - a not so very good Sunday ice update. #Arctic sea ice extent is easily the *lowest* on record to kick off a new year (JAXA data)... 🌊

• about 610,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 2,160,000 km² below the 1980s mean

Additional long-term sea ice graphs: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

Ukraine doubles down on Kursk with new offensive into Russia According to Kyiv, Russian and North Korean troops have taken heavy losses in the Kursk region.

Ukrainian forces kicked off a new counterattack deep into Russian territory on Sunday, sparking a spate of fierce battles along the front lines.

Brazil says 2024 was its hottest year on record Last year was Brazil's hottest on record, its weather agency said Friday, after a record-breaking drought and flooding in the South American country that climate experts have linked to global warming.

Brazil adds it’s name to an ever growing list.

"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research"

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Musk savages Farage, calls for new Reform UK leader In his latest intervention into British politics, the tech billionaire says Farage “doesn’t have what it takes.”

Elon Musk stormed further into British politics, calling for Nigel Farage to stand aside as leader of the right-wing Reform UK party.

YouTube video by PBS Terra The AMOC Might Be WAY More Unstable Than We Thought...Here's Why

PBS Terra has a new documentary about the risk that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (#AMOC) is heading for collapse. 🌊
Well worth watching!
I do have a few quibbles, though. 1/6
youtu.be/5R-PeI6wI3s?...

Did you know that 2/3 of all energy we use ends up as waste heat because of how inefficient our energy system is?

Yet we pay for 100% of the energy inputs.

Here’s the US as an example.

Hej Erik,
Tak for svar. Jeg anvendte to oversigter. En fra DI: www.danskindustri.dk/arkiv/analys... og en fra Dansk Erhverv: www.danskerhverv.dk/siteassets/m.... De giver indtryk af, at produktiviteten er under pres. Samtidig udfører færre virksomheder FoU, selvom det skaber værdi.

Men er det ikke korrekt, at timeproduktiviteten er faldende, hvis vi fraregner medicinalindustrien? Og at produktiviten af samme årsag udvikler sig dårlig i DK end en række af vores nabolande?

Eksperter sætter spørgsmålstegn ved Mona Juuls atomkraft-optimisme | Ingeniøren Atomkraft, som den er til rådighed i dag, har samme affaldsproblem som tidligere, lyder det fra eksperter i begge lejre. Udmeldningen kommer efter konservatives formand Mona Juul ønsker et forbud mod…

Atomkraft, som den er til rådighed i dag, har samme affaldsproblem som tidligere, lyder det fra eksperter i begge lejre.

Samtidig øger det behovet for hurtig og effektiv implementering af NIS2 og CER, så kritiske samfundsfunktioner - uanset i privat eller offentligt regi - rustes bedre til det ændrede trusselsbillede.

Har I undersøgt, om viden udvikles og spredes via samarbejdspartnere som fx GTS-institutter og klynger?

Ja. Men vi mangler at få elektrificeret industrien og varmeproduktionen (varmepumper), så vi kan få efterspørgslen i vejret. Uden fornuftige priser på el er det svært at se en hurtig udbygning af sol+vind+batterier.