Tuomas Mattila

JD Vance’s team had water level of Ohio river raised for family’s boating trip Exclusive: Incident raises questions of exploitation of public services, but Secret Service says it was requested for ‘safe navigation’

JD Vance had the #water level of a lake manipulated to accommodate his vacation plans.
It's not always the big corruption stories that rankle.

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This! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Mitenkäs olisi lisäksi vielä sellainen joka sopeuttaa planeettarajoihin ja varautuu 2050 luvun toimintaympäristöön? Tulevien sukupolvien ministeri olisi myös pop.

a man in a suit and tie is sitting on a couch and saying `` somebody get me a drink please '' . Alt: a man in a suit and tie is sitting on a couch and saying `` somebody get me a drink please '' .

Purra esittää opetushallituksen lakkauttamista saadakseen huiman 15 miljoonan euron säästön.

Bensaveroale laski bensan hintaa ~0,05€ ja vei valtion kassasta 170 miljoonaa. Olutveroale laski tölkin hintaa ~0,03€ ja vei kassasta 25 miljoonaa.

Miettiiköhän hyö ollenkaan näitä heidän päätöksiä?

Key sections of the US Constitution deleted from government's website | TechCrunch Internet sleuths say the U.S. Constitution's website is now missing key sections from its website, including a key legal provision relating to habeas corpus, which protects citizens from unlawful dete...

The constitution. They sliced out the parts of the constitution that they don’t like from the government website.

Yet another reminder that in an aspiring authoritarian government, you should never rely on online document as definitive sources.

Eriarvoisuuden lisääminen = välttämätöntä. Eriarvoisuuden vähentäminen = haitallista. Seuraavaksi lanseerataan kehityshaittajärjestöt ja pahantekeväisyys.

(a) Illustration of the employed fractionation procedure that combines electrostatic attraction, water extraction, sonication, and wet sieving (Remus et al., 2018). (b) Separated OM fractions and their soil ecological meaning. Artwork by Lana Koepke Johnson.

***DID YOU MISS THIS PAPER?***
Potential gains in soil carbon and nitrogen as a result of systems perenniality: Insights from on-farm experiments and soil organic matter fractions.
Souza Krupek, Kaiser, Redfearn & Basche🇺🇸
#soil #soilscience
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Time series graph showing the duration of longest heatwave event in Sodankylä Tähtelä. The values range generally between 0 and 14, but in 2025 the heatwave has now lasted for 26 days.

The heatwave in Sodankylä has now lasted for 26 days.

This is probably not only the longest heatwave in Lapland, but also the longest heatwave ever observed in Finland.

Note that here a heatwave is defined with 3 consecutive days above 90th percentile, which is scientifically robust definition.

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English Ireland data centres: Electricity consumption puts pressure on energy grid

youtu.be/mEAdigVp50M?... Significant that foreign press is rightly now following this major problem closely (with great input by Friends of the Earth Ireland).

Imagine we all drove EVs and then someone came along and proposed an ICE vehicle…

Video credit: Nic Cruz Patane (link in Alt text)

Sea Level Rise in NYC In response to my last post, a reader asked Please evaluate their Fig. 7.6 graph of the 30 year trailing rate of Battery sea level rise. The author’s comment is that “NOAA’s projection is remarkabl…

Wow, that is quite a clever deception to downplay sea-level rise in the DOE climate report.
You have to read the vertical axis label in their graph and understand what “trailing trend” means.
StatisticianTamino explains it nicely in his blog.

tamino.wordpress.com/2025/08/03/s...

Numerot näyttävät luomutuotannon hiipuvan, mutta muutama tuote näyttäytyy valopilkkuna Luomutuotantotilojen ja -peltojen määrä laskee, eikä Arla tee uusia luomusopimuksia. Kaupan ja viljelijän mukaan markkinassa on silti toivoa ja uusia mahdollisuuksia.

#Luomutuotanto valitettavasti vähenee Suomessa. yle.fi/a/74-20175218

Tämä on huono uutinen, sillä #luomu on yksi hyvä keino parantaa #luonnonmonimuotoisuus -arvoja ja #huoltoturva a. Nykyään on vaikea löytää esim. luomuleipää kaupasta. EU:n tavoite on nostaa luomutuotannon osuus 25% 2030 mennessä.

Inspired by @ketilisaksen.bsky.social post, I did the same analysis for Finland.

In terms of 14-day average temperatures, the 2025 heatwave in Finland did not quite surpass the well-known 1972 and 2018 heatwaves.

This is based on 10 km gridded observations.

Our article “What do we know about the state of European seas?” is now out in @consletters.bsky.social. In this study, we used all available #MSFD assessments to unveil the status of European Seas. @drangelborja.bsky.social @skatsanevakis.bsky.social
Find the article link at the post’s end.

A list of daily maximum temperatures in Finland during July-August 2025. The 22-day heatwave is highlighted with red.

The record-long streak of 30 °C in Finland finally ended yesterday. The outcome was an impressive 22 consecutive 30-degree days between 12 July and 2 August.

Who would have believed in June? Not me at least.

Thank you! Do you know, if anybody has translated these to estimated cost changes? (I'm looking at what could the prices of commodity crops be in 2050.) There seems to be demand going up and supply going down. Might be a big change for ag.

Impacts of climate change on global agriculture accounting for adaptation - Climate Impact Lab We explore the impacts of climate change on global agriculture while accounting for adaptation.

Anyways, have some empirically based crop yield projections

August 1, 2025 AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION Committee on Economic Statistics and Committee on Government Relations Statement from the American Economic Association on the Dismissal of the BLS Commissioner Leaders of the American Economic Association express their grave concern over the dismissal of the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) earlier today. The independence of the federal statistical agencies is essential to the proper functioning of a modern economy. Accurate, timely, and impartial statistics are the foundation upon which households, businesses, and policymakers make critical decisions. Undermining the independence or credibility of these agencies threatens the integrity of the information that markets, institutions, and the public rely on every day. Measuring the vast and dynamic U.S. economy in real time is inherently challenging. It is standard practice for statistical estimates to be revised as more complete and higher-quality data become available. These revisions reflect the commitment of statistical agencies to accuracy, transparency, and methodological rigor-not failure or bias. The BLS has long had a well-deserved reputation for professional excellence and nonpartisan integrity. Safeguarding this tradition is vital for the continued health of the U.S. economy and public trust in our institutions. We call upon elected officials to respect and preserve the independence of the nation's statistical infrastructure. Lawrence Katz President, American Economic Association Katharine Abraham President-Elect, American Economic Association Karen Dynan Chair, American Economic Association Committee on Economic Statistics Kenneth Troske Chair, American Economic Association Committee on Government Relations

Statement from the largest economics association about the BLS firing

As context: AEA approximately never makes such public statements

This is a big deal

Onneksi olkoon!

Thanks for sharing. Really nice, straightforward analysis. I'm a big fan of piecewise linear models.

Sea Level Mis-information from DOE Here in the USA, the Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a report titled “A Critical Review of the Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate.” It is a product of the &#8…

Is sea level around the US accelerating? If you actually do the analysis, instead of just repeating talking points from decades ago, the answer is yes.
tamino.wordpress.com/2025/08/03/s...

Straight talk & great analysis of piecewise linear data.
"No sir, we did not find any evidence"
"Did you look for it?"
"No, but we tried really hard."

China declares all crypto-currency transactions illegal Trading Bitcoin and other crypto-currenices is a criminal activity, China's central bank says.

This is the way.

Ja haitoissa diskonttauskertoimia käyttäneiden taloustieteilijöiden kiintiö diskontataan samalla kertoimella.

The FBI Redacted Trump’s Name in the Epstein Files The bureau’s FOIA team tasked with conducting a final review of the records blacked out the names before higher-ups said last month that releasing the documents ‘would not be appropriate or warranted....

Breaking Bloomberg:

The FBI redacted Trump's name in the Epstein files.

"An FBI [Freedom of Information Act] team redacted Trump's name—and the names of other prominent public figures—from the documents, according to three people familiar with the matter."
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Toki semmoinen erikoisuus on, että rakentaminen on palvelu.

Feel you Haisuli😌

Just checked the free sample and will definitely order it. Seems excellent for both honing my skills and teaching newbies.

Myös laittaisi konkretiaa 2 C ja 3 C lämpenemisen välille, kun näkisi millä alueilla ruuantuotanto romahtaa.

Tuosta globaalit satotasot 2050 eri lämpenemisskenaarioilla on muuten tosi vaikeaa löytää kunnon dataa. Olisi tosi tärkeää tietoa Suomenkin ruokajärjestelmän sopeutumiselle.