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They could arrange an exchange with researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work on Germany appropriately because they were rude enough to notice the Israeli war crimes in Gaza". 👍🏻

oh no

Habe gerade erfahren, dass der Lakritzladen in HH schließt (aus persönlichen Gründen leider) - außer jemand findet sich, der ihn übernimmt ... UND IM ERNST, das ist ein megagut gehender Laden!!! Für LAKRITZ!!! LAKRITZ!!!!!!
Es muss doch jemand geben, der da sofort HIER schreit?!!!!

German music body wins copyright case against OpenAI OpenAI has infringed copyright law in Germany by using song lyrics to train its artificial intelligence models, a court in Munich ruled.

OpenAI has infringed copyright law in Germany by using song lyrics to train its artificial intelligence models, a court in Munich ruled.

A decade ago, solar power barely registered in Hungary’s electricity mix — just 0.2% of generation. Back then, nuclear, coal, and gas dominated the grid.

Fast forward ten years and solar power now supplies around 1/4 of Hungary’s electricity — a remarkable transformation.

It's a total non-sequitur, sorry.

The popularity of the BBC in a nation of hyperpartisan halfwits cannot credibly be entered as evidence in its defence.

Gluttons For Punishment: Oil Industry Doubles Down Against Reality The world is facing a multi-year oil glut where the oil producers will be pumping more oil out of the ground than the world is using. This will keep oil prices at low levels – likely well below the le...

The consensus is that the electrification of transportation will destroy 5 million barrels per day of oil demand by 2030.

In this new piece I argue that this number is too low for a bunch of reasons.

Good news: more than 50% of the world’s economies have seen carbon emissions from fossil fuel power generation peaking. And with the speed of change in the electricity sector many more will join this growing list in coming years.

A vintage black and white portrait of a woman holding a young child, both looking directly at the camera. The woman has a gentle smile and wears a light blouse; the child is in a simple top. The background is plain, emphasizing the subjects.

11 November 1921 | A Dutch Jewish woman, Alida Content-Levie, was born in Meppel.

In October 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive. Her younger brother Max (in the picture) was murdered in a gas chamber.

A portrait ID photo of a boy in a suit. His signature is visible in the picture.

11 November 1927 | Czech Jewish boy, Felix Arnstein, was born in Prague.

He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 6 September 1943. He did not survive.
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Children at Auschwitz

Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/dzieci_EN/
Podcast: https://youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA

China’s CO2 emissions from fossil fuels and cement, million tonnes of CO2, rolling 12-month totals until September 2025. Source: Emissions are estimated from National Bureau of Statistics data on production of different fuels and cement, China Customs data on imports and exports and WIND Information data on changes in inventories, applying emissions factors from China’s latest national greenhouse gas emissions inventory and annual emissions factors per tonne of cement production until 2024. Sector breakdown of coal consumption is estimated using coal consumption data from WIND Information and electricity data from the National Energy Administration. The consumption of petrol, diesel and jet fuel is adjusted to match quarterly totals estimated by Sinopec.

NEW – Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions have now been flat or falling for 18 months | @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social

Read here: buff.ly/ONGzk3a

Should Gibb be sacked? yes, obviously. He's an abomination of basic journalistic standards. His GB News channel spreads conspiracy theory & disinformation. His Jewish Chronicle newspaper spreads invented stories. He is plainly trying to undermine the BBC so it's as bad as everything else he touches.

Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analyzed them in 2004.

Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.

This looks rather meaningful.

Link to the paper is here... a little more on the results pasted in below.

Expect a Briefings for Brexit rebuttal that actually the cost of Brexit was 12 pence and a bag of chips, to be outweighed by sovereignty benefits of a zillion pounds.

www.nber.org/papers/w3445...

Headline from a serious and long working paper on the economic impact of Brexit. Possible that this has been feeding into OBR and HMT discussions?

When I drive on the autopista (highway) here in Spain, I use "regenerative braking" settings just to maintain target speed going downhill. Probably more than in city or trunk road driving, where I need to slow down or stop more quickly than regenerative braking will achieve. YMMV. 🤷🏻‍♂️

This is polemic, not serious argument.

In the context of climate change, what "critical materials" are *more* critical than carbon fuels? 100% more lithium at manufacture, and 100% less fossil fuel for the whole lifetime of the car, is the correct comparison to be made. And a good bargain.

Málaga es la ciudad con menos kilómetros de carriles bici de entre las más pobladas de España Los ciclistas detectan numerosos «puntos negros» para moverse a pedales y reclaman que las vías segregadas se incluyan en todos los nuevos proyectos

🔶 SUR+ 📰 #Málaga es la ciudad con menos kilómetros de carriles bici de entre las más pobladas de España. ✍ Chus Heredia

What nonsense is this? Why wouldn't an installer replace just the pump? Do you allow yourself to be persuaded to replumb the house every time you change your gas boiler? Very puzzling!

Heat pumps are used across Scandinavia, which gets VERY cold in Winter. So what "challenges" do you think your average domestic consumer migjht face, exactly?

“Heat pumps are superior in efficiency to condensing boilers, even if the heat pumps are powered by electricity from a power station burning natural gas.”

Not me saying that but the late Prof Sir David MacKay.

More in my @carbonbrief.org article 👇

interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/he...

Not everywhere, though. The UK is on its own dismal trajectory, for many reasons.

Where I live, and I think in most European countries, electricity is cheaper than fossil fuels, which are heavily taxed.

This is even more the case for people who have their own solar panels at home - also a reason why EVs are taking off in the developing world.

Cheap oil countries may vary.

Germany is one of several European countries that seems currently to be cursed by an absolutely extraordinarily stupid political class. 🙄

One of the most self-destructive things Germany could do is to reverse the green transition now.

Renewables expansion has been on a tear but Germany has seen reversals before, unfortunately. And the country still does not have oil or gas and isn’t getting any anytime soon (ever).

A raccoon with a crowbar that says some people have guardian angels. I have a raccoon with a crowbar whispering..."Let's make it worse."

When your friends just get you.
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