Big moment for Europe: in December, fully electric cars outsold petrol-only cars in the EU for the first time.
This shows that clear, consistent policy works. Which is exactly why backtracking now would be a mistake. Rolling back targets or creating uncertainty would slow investment and innovation.
27.01.2026 09:42 — 👍 4552 🔁 1185 💬 127 📌 84
22.01.2026 12:36 — 👍 21 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
“Members received a private briefing on Sudan, at which one of the academics stated, ‘Our low estimate is 60,000 people have been killed there in the last three weeks’.”
13.12.2025 11:15 — 👍 8 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
The government of Iceland now considers this a national security threat. www.arctictoday.com/iceland-sees...
And the Foreign Intelligence Service of Germany together with other German institutions published a National Climate Risk Assessment this year.
Here is what it says about #AMOC tipping risk.
16.11.2025 15:58 — 👍 142 🔁 58 💬 0 📌 6
China now dominates not just global clean energy manufacturing (solar power & photovoltaics, wind turbines, EVs etc), but the fundamental research and patents that will define the world's energy future.
18.08.2025 13:12 — 👍 77 🔁 30 💬 4 📌 7
This is unbelievable.
The high temperature at one of Finland’s northernmost weather stations, in the municipality of Sodankylä (Lapland region) within the Arctic Circle at latitude 67.3°N, reached at least 25°C for 26 days in a row.
Records date back to 1908.
06.08.2025 16:45 — 👍 154 🔁 80 💬 5 📌 8
Aber schön, daß Brosius-Gernsdorf 12x vorkam.
Solche Prioritäten muß man sich erstmal leisten können.
21.07.2025 06:10 — 👍 30 🔁 9 💬 4 📌 0
This is the typical annual loss in thickness of the Rhône glacier in recent years at this location (>7 m)... 🧊📏
Guess what ?
Over last 10 days it has already lost 1 meter! 😱
Likely en route to an all-time record year...🔥📈
Pic and data: @matthias-huss.bsky.social
28.06.2025 10:55 — 👍 46 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 1
SPEECHLESS BEFORE / AFTER #BLATTEN
The magnitude of destruction after the 3:24 pm collapse of Birch Glacier is immense! 😱
All the forest has been razed and the ice/wood/debris dammed the Lonza river 🌊
Some buildings of Blatten are buried 🏠
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28.05.2025 15:34 — 👍 633 🔁 375 💬 18 📌 51
Zwischen Christdemokratie und Rechtspopulismus
Wohin schlingert die Merz-Union? Andreas Püttmann beschreibt das Ringen der christdemokratischen Partei um die Bedeutung des »C« in ihrem Namen.
Nach gestern fragt man sich noch einmal mehr: Wohin schlingert die Merz-Union?
Andreas Püttmann schreibt über den Richtungsstreit in der CDU, der sich am Umgang mit der AfD festmacht, aber auch die Frage betrifft, wie christlich die Union eigentlich noch ist: www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2025...
07.05.2025 12:00 — 👍 59 🔁 18 💬 0 📌 7
The AfD has been declared far-right extremist and anti-constitutional due its disregard for human dignity by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (i.e. German domestic intelligence agency) after three years of investigation: www.verfassungsschutz.de/SharedDocs/p...
02.05.2025 08:22 — 👍 55 🔁 25 💬 1 📌 3
Die weltgeschichtliche Dimension des Verrats durch Trump nicht nur an der Ukraine, den europaeischen und sonstigen Alliierten, sondern auch an Amerika als Idee selbst kann gar nicht ueberschaetzt werden.
24.04.2025 13:06 — 👍 616 🔁 190 💬 14 📌 12
Wir brauchen einen Plan
Die Schweizer Aussenpolitik ist konzeptlos. Das muss sich jetzt dringend ändern.
“Solange die Weltlage stabil gewesen ist, funktionierte die helvetische Tugend des Durchwurstelns ausgezeichnet. Es wäre verhängnisvoll, zu glauben, dass dies auf ewig gilt. Wir müssen uns neu aufstellen. Ein Anfang wäre es, die kollektive MärchenStunde zu beenden.”
www.republik.ch/2025/04/12/w...
12.04.2025 08:20 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This is the issue with so many problems in politics—short term reactions to comparative expectations rather than ever taking stock of the big picture. That’s how you kill a country, by getting people to be inexplicably happy after undoing *some* of the terrible policies you just inflicted.
09.04.2025 18:39 — 👍 361 🔁 106 💬 7 📌 1
"What the U.S. is doing now is not reform. It is rejecting the very system it created." - Singapore's Prime Minister Lawrence Wong
(April 8, 2025)
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Vergleich der Bodenfeuchteverhältnisse unter Winterweizen im März vieljähriges Mittel (1991-2020), 2018 und 2025 (Quelle: DWD, Modell AMBAV, durchwurzelte Bodenschicht, Böden: BÜK1000N)
Sechsttrockenster März seit 1881 mit nur 21% des Niederschlages (Deutschlandmittel) im Vergleich zu 1991-2020. Bei weiterer #Trockenheit gemäß DWD-Witterungsvorhersage ist Trockenstress bei auflaufenden Sommerkulturen möglich.
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02.04.2025 12:09 — 👍 36 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 1
The standout madness in the general madness are the enormous tariffs on South East Asia which, if these stick, is going to magnify China's sphere of influence. Geopolitical lunacy.
02.04.2025 20:59 — 👍 2459 🔁 616 💬 83 📌 42
Biodiversity loss in all species and every ecosystem linked to humans – report
Sweeping synthesis of 2,000 global studies leaves no doubt about scale of problem and role of humans, say experts
"Humans are driving #biodiversity loss among all species across the planet. The exhaustive global analysis leaves no doubt about the devastating impact humans are having on Earth, according to researchers from @eawag.bsky.social & University of Zurich."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
28.03.2025 18:31 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
According to this @zdfde.bsky.social Politbarometer poll, 76% of Germans are in favour of more defence spending with new debt.
This includes 90% of CDU voters, 52% of Die Linke voters and even 70% of FDP voters.
A fiscal public opinion revolution.
08.03.2025 10:24 — 👍 703 🔁 207 💬 26 📌 24
Der Bundesrat soll "weitere Möglichkeiten zur sicherheitspolitischen Kooperation mit der EU" prüfen und "die Rolle der Schweiz als Teil der europäischen Sicherheitsarchitektur stärken".
Das verlangt der Nationalrat mit einer "Erklärung". (1/3)
06.03.2025 11:57 — 👍 24 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 6
This is massive. The real Zeitenwende.
04.03.2025 19:31 — 👍 642 🔁 130 💬 27 📌 5
Credit where it’s due: where many old-school European atlanticists are still struggling to come to terms with the Trumpism 2.0, Merz has shown no interest in fence-sitting or hedging his pivot to new realities. Mere impulsiveness or genuine adaptability? Judge him by his actions.
28.02.2025 20:38 — 👍 102 🔁 20 💬 3 📌 0
Blimey. Asked about Trump, Merz says he’s in close contact with European leaders about becoming “independent” from US (and confesses “I never thought I’d say that on TV show”). Casts doubt on value of NATO summit in June.
This from a die-hard Atlanticist. Things are moving fast.
23.02.2025 19:58 — 👍 2136 🔁 642 💬 42 📌 131
Steve Levitsky, co-author of How Democracies Die
"the U.S. is sliding toward a more 21st-century model of autocracy: competitive authoritarianism"
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
"A failure to resist... could pave the way for authoritarian entrenchment"
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
11.02.2025 15:15 — 👍 642 🔁 326 💬 10 📌 21
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