Jussi Pasanen

Scientists discovered something alarming seeping out from beneath the ocean around Antarctica | CNN Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed, with new seeps being discovered at an “astonishing rate,” raising fears that future global warming predictions may have been und...

“Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed as the region warms, with new seeps being discovered at an ‘astonishing rate,’ scientists have found.” www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/c...

An Immense Solar Project Just Got Canceled Under Trump

The sun is woke.

Graph showing: Weekly atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa, in the style of Hokusai.

NOAA data show Mauna Loa was about to be deluged, but perhaps the US government shutdown has saved it just in time?
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Meta ad, firefighters in hallway in flames viewed through AR goggles. "With the metaverse, firefighters will one day be equipped to rescue people faster"

The desperate vague fluff from AI boosters about how world-changingly useful LLMs could be *one day*, even though they aren't right now, reminds me of Zuckerberg's fever-daydream ads for his VR hat

Never trust pledges – unless they pledge BAU

This could have been Australia, but thanks to John Howard, Tony Abbott, Scott Morrison, the Minerals Council and the BCA, we wasted nearly 20 years subsidising gas and coal instead. What a waste.

So bloody useless

#cardependency

Democracy Dies in Darkness Subscribe Sign in Climate Environment Weather Climate Solutions Climate Lab Green Living Business of Climate White House offers ‘concierge’ service to fossil fuel firms, official says Brittany Kelm, a senior policy adviser for the National Energy Dominance Council, detailed in a podcast how the council works to advance fossil fuel projects. Updated October 7, 2025 at 7:02 p.m. EDTtoday at 7:02 p.m. EDT 5 min Summary 206 A pump jack operates outside of Midland, Texas, in June. (Eli Hartman/Reuters) By Jake Spring The White House is offering “concierge, white glove service” to oil, coal and other fossil fuel companies that are seeking to gain fast approval for their projects, according to an energy official, while simultaneously slowing down or blocking solar and wind projects. Brittany Kelm, senior policy adviser for President Donald Trump’s National Energy Dominance Council, detailed in an August podcast how she and the council work to advance fossil fuel projects. Trump established the committee in February with Interior Secretary Doug Burgum as its leader. “We’re like this little tiger team, concierge, white glove service, essentially,” Kelm said. “We were put together very particularly with the president’s priorities in mind on energy. So keeping coal plants open, establishing critical mineral mining domestically and then that broader supply chain.” Kelm did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Follow Trump’s second term Follow White House spokesperson Kush Desai said that the administration is ending former president Joe Biden’s preferential treatment for green energy projects and “war” on mining and fossil fuels. “The American people gave President Trump a resounding mandate to ‘drill, baby, drill’ and unleash the power of American energy, and the Administration is committed to doing just that,” Desai said in a written statement. National Energy Dominance Council Executive Director Jarrod Agen said in a sta…

Whether it's sincere or bad-faith, it is pretty simply true that AI-mania is providing an easy rhetorical cover for the US government actively worsening the use of fossil fuels

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photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

Your offsets at "work"

River or sankey diagram showing the allocation of profits from global oil and gas companies to quantiles of the US wealth size distribution via financial system intermediaries, such as asset managers, and categories of ultimate beneficiaries, such as business owners, pension funds and shareholders in listed companies. The scale is hundreds of billions of US dollars, and ultimately 50.4% of profits reaching the US personal wealth distribution go to the richest 1% of households.

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We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I'll see your creepy robot-hugging pillow and raise you a surveillance tribble.

Just remembered this jaw-dropping graph by @oceansclimatecu.bsky.social showing the rate of change in CO2 during the previous two deglaciations of the Pleistocene (which, as a fun aside, featured ~400 feet of sea level rise) as compared with today

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

'In any case, the changes in CO2/GDP in the last 10 years are very disappointing (hence no peak).'

Standard Operating Procedure: Privatise profits, socialise losses

Marine heatwaves modulate food webs and carbon transport processes - Nature Communications A decade of BGC-Argo and plankton records shows North Pacific heatwaves reshape food webs and trap small particles in midwater, slowing deep-ocean carbon export. Impacts vary by event, underscoring the need for sustained ocean monitoring.

🌊 Marine heatwaves and the carbon cycle

A new study shows that marine heatwaves can disrupt food webs and carbon transport in the NE Pacific.

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#SciComm #ClimateCrisis 🧪

New Zealand oceans warming 34% faster than global average, putting homes and industry at risk, report finds NZ$180bn worth of housing and $26bn of infrastructure at risk of flooding and storm damage, new government report finds

'New Zealand’s oceans are warming 34% faster than the global average, with NZ$180bn (US$104bn) worth of housing at risk of flooding, a new report about the nation’s marine environment has revealed.'
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Antarctica may have crossed a tipping point that leads to rising seas Scientists are beginning to understand the sudden loss of sea ice in Antarctica – and there is growing evidence that it represents a permanent shift with potentially catastrophic consequences

Antarctica may have passed a climate tipping point of no return, scientists are warning, with mounting evidence that a sudden slump in sea ice formation since 2016 is linked to human-induced ocean warming.

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish? Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...

Cory Doctorow: 'The path to a better Amazon doesn’t lie through consumer activism, or appeals to the its conscience. Corporations…that use humans as their inconvenient gut flora, do not have consciences to appeal to.'
'You can’t shop your way out of a monopoly.'
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Human centred design considered harmful – Jussi Pasanen Human centred design is anthropocentric design. By focusing on humans only, we frame out the rest of the living planet, and ignore its ongoing destruction.

Related: 'Human centred design considered harmful'
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'Design today has clearly been struggling through a long existential crisis. The realisation that the field has been so fully co-opted by capital as a mechanism for making more useless stuff has hit hard.'

'This choice [to keep people in poverty] is driven by two imperatives. The first is a deep, ancient and irrational belief that poverty is a vice that must be punished. The second is the bosses’ need to keep us in a state of fear, so that people continue…stressful and demeaning work for lousy pay.'

'We are not doing anything like enough here in the U.S. to turn inevitable climate migrations towards sensible, equitable outcomes. To be blunt, there really isn’t any plan at all to do so ...'

'This future — of plummeting values and expensive safety — may not be far off now.'

'When risk rises and rebuilding becomes uncertain, values drop. In places where brittleness accumulates through multiple systems, hitting everything from local government budgets to the availability of health care, values could crater.'

'An inflatable replica of the Statue of Liberty is submerged in a pool in front of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, in Berlin, Germany, as part of the exhibition “Possibility of Unvernunft” (Die Moeglichkeit der Unvernunft), on September 29, 2025.' John Macdougall / AFP / Getty

The Global Economy Runs on Extraction / Lalah Khalili Political Scientist Laleh Khalili joins us to discuss her new book,

'Whether it is pumping oil, mining resources, or shipping commodities across oceans, the global economy runs on extraction.'
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Tax breaks, tax credits, and subsidies are on the list.

Once again, right wing promised growth and employment. Once again, what they delivered was growth of unemployment.

(And tax cuts for the rich. And hundreds of millions to crony capitalists. Of course.)