Sign in

Magnus Westerstrand

@magwes.bsky.social
888 followers 584 following 436 posts

Environmental Utilitarian, I hope! PhD applied geology... Random tweets about, mine waste, water but mostly climate.

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Magnus Westerstrand
Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Exciting news from Finland: the world’s largest sand battery (1 MW/100 MWh) is now online! The Pornainen project by Polar Night Energy is 10x bigger than the first commercial sand battery and sets a new benchmark for affordable, long-duration energy storage.
523780
Reposted by Magnus Westerstrand
Sara Hastings-Simon 🇨🇦 @shastingssimon.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Chemical energy storage is great and all but I have to admit that thermal energy storage has a special place in my heart.
36312
Reposted by Magnus Westerstrand
Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
IBERIAN OVEN 45 DEGREES >40C and Records from South to North 44.2 Merida Insane 42.9 Ourense ! (Meteo Galicia) 39.8 Zamora 37.8 Lugo Crazy hot in CATALONIA Max 42.2 Vinebre Record Hot Night :Min 30.2 Portbou In Northern PORTUGAL 39.1 Vila Real R
310355
Reposted by Magnus Westerstrand
WIRED @wired.com · 29/06/2025
WIRED loves Fairphone and everything it stands for—but people just aren’t buying its devices, and the few who have don’t need to upgrade. www.wired.com/story/fairph...
wired.com
Fairphone Has a New Plan to Get You to Care
WIRED loves Fairphone and everything it stands for—but people just aren’t buying its devices, and the few who have don’t need to upgrade.
1815830
Reposted by Magnus Westerstrand
Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 29/06/2025
Climate mitigation and adaptation measures are not costs. They are investments. The true costs occur when mitigation fails and adaptation is too slow so we suffer from continually worsening extreme weather events like heatwaves and floods. Invest now to reduce costs in future.
6394138
Magnus Westerstrand @magwes.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Från en som jobbat där... Det är så här det är... Och värre. För samtidigt som det finns överflöd av arbeten utan längre utbildning är det svårt att rekrytera spetskompetens.
010
Reposted by Magnus Westerstrand
Anna Ekström @annaekstrom.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Hej Bluesky, det här är en jättebra artikel! www.dn.se/debatt/gruva...
dn.se
DN Debatt. ”Gruvan är vårt samhälles hjärta – och den dränerar oss på liv”
DN Debatt. Skolchefer i Kiruna och Gällivare om livet i Malmfälten, där det finns fler jobb än personer – vilket slår mot skolan och barnens utbildning.
13112
Reposted by Magnus Westerstrand
Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.
thebetter.news
Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
8963202410
Reposted by Magnus Westerstrand
Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
If you're one of Thames Water's 16 million so-called "customers" the money from your bills should be spent on investment to tackle sewage, not wasted on expensive creditors and shareholders Here's how to end the rip off and get PUBLIC OWNERSHIP 👇 www.youtube.com/shorts/YIb9G...
youtube.com
How to fix Thames Water
YouTube video by We Own It
15020
Reposted by Magnus Westerstrand
Jonas Gustafsson @jonasgus.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
🧵1) Det har snackats en del #bottentrålning på sistone. Inte minst pga av ministerns falska uttalande om att bottentrålningen i svenska skyddade havsområden är "illegal and banned" sedan 1/6 i år. Kosterhavets marina nationalpark är ett exempel på ett starkt skyddat område som ändå bottentrålas.
1154
Reposted by Magnus Westerstrand
Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Oh snap New exposure data preprint with "open access repository of 73 individual gridded datasets addressing topography, climate, nighttime lights, land cover, inland water, infrastructure, protected areas as well as the built-up environment" at 100m resolution (!!) verixiv.org/articles/2-1...
Global gridded multi-temporal datasets to support human population distribution modeling
3292
Reposted by Magnus Westerstrand
Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
"This man saved my life." Ukrainian Defender Oleksii Anulia, who returned from Russian captivity at the end of 2022, reunited with another Warrior with whom he was in Russian captivity. "This man gave me his last bit of everything just so I could survive and hold on.
763635949
Reposted by Magnus Westerstrand
MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
🇪🇺🇺🇦 Zelensky: What is needed now is a truly powerful 18th package of EU sanctions against Russia. Key targets should be Russia’s oil trade, its shadow tanker fleet, Russian banks and other financial institutions, and any supply chains that provide equipment or parts for weapons production.
22990199
Reposted by Magnus Westerstrand
euobserver — EU news that matters @euobserver.com · 26/06/2025
EU summit of symbolism? Much discussion, no decisions
euobserver.com
EU summit of symbolism? Much discussion, no decisions
Fresh from the Nato summit, EU leaders meet in Brussels for their last meeting before the summer recess. The packed agenda will test EU Council president António Costa’s ability to keep it to a one-day event — but real debate is unlikely, with leaders keen to avoid drawn-out discussions and expose deep divisions.
053
Reposted by Magnus Westerstrand
European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 26/06/2025
French State liable for death from toxic green algae ⚖️💀 Court links 2016 jogger’s death to Brittany’s “green tide” and orders damages. The culprit? Intensive farming. A win for justice, nature & health🎉 Time for the EU to act on nutrient pollution! 🌿 @franceinfo.fr story in comments below 👇
2189
Reposted by Magnus Westerstrand
Marcus Larsson @skolinkvisition.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
”Först och främst, förbjud aktiebolagen i skolan. Därefter bör man differentiera skolpengen mellan kommunala och fristående skolor eftersom ansvaret ser olika ut. Till sist måste kötid som urvalsmetod till friskolor tas bort.” www.hallandsposten.se/asikter/leda...
hallandsposten.se
Släng ut varenda skojarskola i Sverige
Den undermåliga undervisningen på Aniaragymnasiet är inget undantag utan visar med all tydlighet på systemfelen i svensk skola. Kan en aktiebolagsdriven friskola göra vinst, kommer den också att göra ...
47129
Reposted by Magnus Westerstrand
Ola Spännar @olaspannar.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Det här är intressant. Fler är emot än för att höja skatten på fossila bränslen. Men hela 52% av de negativa svänger från nej till ja om lågavlönade och glesbygdsbor kompenseras. Och var tredje svänger till ja om inkomstskatterna sänks fairtrans.nu/wp-content/u...
44112
Reposted by Magnus Westerstrand
Daniel Spiro @danielspiro.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Det är intressant, men skulle inte säga att det är ovanligt att gräva djupare genom att ställa betingade frågor. En bra genomgång av forskningen på acceptans för klimatpolitik finns här: eso.expertgrupp.se/rapporter/20....
eso.expertgrupp.se
2025:1 Minsta möjliga motstånd – en ESO-rapport om acceptans för klimatpolitiska styrmedel - ESO - Expertgruppen för studier i offentlig ekonomi
För att effektivt minska utsläppen av växthusgaser behövs generella klimatpolitiska styrmedel som till exempel koldioxidskatter. I Sverige infördes redan 1991 en koldioxidskatt. Trots att skatter i al...
172
Reposted by Magnus Westerstrand
Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe @caneurope.org · 26/06/2025
❗Early international offset deals under Article 6 have shown huge flaws: overestimated reductions & negative local impacts 👥 These deals have no proper safeguards! ⚖️ The EU must not trade away climate integrity Read more: caneurope.org/dont-outsour... #ClimateJustice #Article6 #EU2040
043
Reposted by Magnus Westerstrand
MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
🇸🇪🇺🇦 Swedish CB-90 boats of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Marine Corps during a combat mission in the Black Sea. 😎 SOF soldier operates a six-barreled M134 Minigun on a SOC-R speedboat.
423228
Reposted by Magnus Westerstrand
Magnus Westerstrand @magwes.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Not really happening in Sweden... And don't see how this will change it.
001
Reposted by Magnus Westerstrand
European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 25/06/2025
Rivers across Europe are heavily broken up by barriers like dams and weirs With around 1.2 million in place, these structures massively disrupt biodiversity and threaten healthy waters 💦 But with the Nature Restoration Law, that’s about to change - see how ⬇️ eeb.org/library/goin... #RestoreNature
33616
Reposted by Magnus Westerstrand
Igor Sushko @igorsushko.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Spy claiming to be a Ukrainian diplomat in Hungary arrested by authorities. When they threatened to deport him to Ukraine, he admitted to actually being a Russian spy pretending to be Ukrainian, and asked not to be sent to Ukraine. Hilarity ensues. united24media.com/latest-news/...
united24media.com
Hungary Detains Alleged Ukrainian Spy—Turns Out to Be Russian National
A detained man in Budapest has appealed his deportation to Ukraine, claiming Russian citizenship amid espionage accusations from Hungarian authorities.
826274
Reposted by Magnus Westerstrand
Mazeson @mazeson.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Skyhöga kvicksilvervärden uppmätta i sediment i Kosterhavet. Källan till detta är hittills okänd. Livsmedelsverket ska analysera räkor härifrån och HaV ser hur möjligheterna för undersökande övervakning i området kan följa upp detta, samt ev nytt samråd med Norge. www.etc.se/klimat-miljo...
etc.se
Skyhöga halter av kvicksilver i Kosterhavet
Forskare: "Kan påverka hela ekosystemet" • Oklar utsläppskälla.
271
Reposted by Magnus Westerstrand
🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @militarynewsua.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
❗️🇬🇧Britain to order 12 🇺🇸American F-35A fighters for NATO nuclear umbrella The purchased F-35A will become, among other things, carriers of American B61 nuclear bombs
9525
Reposted by Magnus Westerstrand
Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 25/06/2025
Thanks so much for everyone who came out in person or online to hear me talk about our LLM course today at UNSW. thebullshitmachines.com
thebullshitmachines.com
Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines: Introduction
A free online humanities course about how to learn and work and thrive in an AI world.
523139
Reposted by Magnus Westerstrand
Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 25/06/2025
Apparently they are referring to this (which, as @hausfath.bsky.social explains here, emphasizes the importance of CO2 on temperature): www.theclimatebrink.com/p/climate-sk...
theclimatebrink.com
Climate skeptics have new favorite graph; it shows the opposite of what they claim
It actually makes the case that CO₂ is the dominant control on Earth’s temperature
1017234
Reposted by Magnus Westerstrand
Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 25/06/2025
Today, Joe Rogan said: “Did you see the WaPo piece? They found that we’re in a cooling period…a very ‘inconvenient’ discovery, but they had to report the data—and kudos to them for doing that.” I'd love to know how WaPo found that cooling period and, even more importantly, where they hid it.
A plot of global land-ocean temperature change from 1880 to 2024 from NASA GISS that does not show any recent cooling period.
25715177
Reposted by Magnus Westerstrand
Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 23/06/2025
In the next 7 years: 5 million people will turn 18. - 63% of people aged 18-24 want to rejoin the EU. - Only 15% oppose rejoining. Over 4 million people will die (most aged 65+). - 37% of over 65s want to rejoin the EU. - A hefty 56% oppose rejoining. The UK is becoming ever more strongly rejoin.
1018544
Reposted by Magnus Westerstrand
WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Reuters has released footage of the massive nighttime attack on Kyiv. At this time, 9 people are confirmed dead and over 30 injured.
11361101
Reposted by Magnus Westerstrand
Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 23/06/2025
The argument that urban heat islands are biasing temperature records continually comes up. There is a long history of papers showing it's effect minimal globally (and the world is 70% oceans with no urbanization). My colleague Robert has an updated analysis for global land:
38526
Reposted by Magnus Westerstrand
Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
A study confirms what we have long argued: the spectacular Atlantic 'cold blob' is the result of a slowing of the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC, which transports warm waters into that region. That's the only part of Earth that resisted #globalwarming. 🌊 www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
sciencedaily.com
The Atlantic's chilling secret: A century of data reveals ocean current collapse
A century-old mystery of a stubborn cold patch in the North Atlantic is finally being unraveled. A new study links this anomaly to a long-term weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulat...
35904443
Reposted by Magnus Westerstrand
Henrik Brors @henrikbrors.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Svenska EU-kommissionären gör Tidöregeringen en tjänst. Får EU-kommissionen att urholka klimatlagstiftningen. Splittrad kommission drar tillbaka lagförslag om förhindra företag från greenwashing www.politico.eu/article/ribe...
politico.eu
Ribera fought Commission plan to nix greenwashing rules
The vice president of the EU executive pressured the environment commissioner over several days to preserve the law.
022
Reposted by Magnus Westerstrand
Mazeson @mazeson.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Joint NGO recommendations on Baltic Sea fishing opportunities for 2026 www.fishsec.org/2025/06/17/j...
fishsec.org
Joint NGO recommendations on Baltic Sea fishing opportunities for 2026
On Wednesday, 28 May, the International Council for the Exploration of the Seas (ICES) published its scientific advice for fish stocks in the Baltic Sea. In response, environmental NGOs from around th...
011
Reposted by Magnus Westerstrand
Anders Hellberg @andershellberg.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Hoppar in som debattredaktör, missa inte --> ”Därför bör fler företag ha med vattenfrågor i sitt hållbarhetsarbete”
aktuellhallbarhet.se
”Därför bör fler företag ha med vattenfrågor i sitt hållbarhetsarbete”
Mycket är otydligt kring kraven på företags hållbarhetsrapportering efter att EU lagt fram det omtalade omnibus-paketet. Fler företag kan samtidigt ta på sig ledartröjan i hållbarhetsarbetet genom att...
031
Reposted by Magnus Westerstrand
Gränsfallet @brosen67.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
I samband med helger och särskilt storhelger är denna alltid aktuell
417545
Reposted by Magnus Westerstrand
Niklas Orrenius @niklasorrenius.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
– Jag är 19, sa Denys. Jag hade trott dig om du hade sagt 15 också, tänkte jag. I främsta försvarslinjen mot Rysslands invasion finns infanteristerna, fotsoldaterna i skyttegravar där risken att dödas eller lemlästas är störst. Idag ger vi röst åt tre av dem, läs! www.dn.se/varlden/deny...
dn.se
Denys, 19, har dödat och sett vänner dö: ”Jag klarar saker jag inte visste att jag kunde”
Denys, 19, har dödat och sett vänner dö i östra Ukraina: ”Jag klarar saker jag inte visste att jag kunde”, säger han.
616644
Reposted by Magnus Westerstrand
David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
I got 99 reasons to plant trees, but carbon offsetting ain't one.
apnews.com
Want to plant trees to offset fossil fuels? You'd need all of North and Central America, study finds
Planting trees can help save the planet, right? A new study finds that to offset all the planet-warming carbon emissions from fossil fuel reserves, trees would have to entirely cover an area the size ...
818427
Reposted by Magnus Westerstrand
Lars Wilderäng @larswilderang.cornucopia.se · 21/06/2025
UPPDATERAS: Ryssland bröt igen mot energiavtalet, bombade energiinfrastruktur i Krementjuk – massproduktion av ukrainsk antidrönarradar igång – rysk vapenfabrik bombad i Tula
dlvr.it
UPPDATERAS: Ryssland bröt igen mot energiavtalet, bombade energiinfrastruktur i Krementjuk – massproduktion av ukrainsk antidrönarradar igång – rysk vapenfabrik bombad i Tula
Ryssland bröt återigen mot energiavtalet och bombade energiinfrastruktur i ukrainska Krementjuk, förmodligen ett raffinaderi, medan Ukraina visar att man håller sina avtal och låter ryska raffinaderier vara. Ukraina har igång massproduktion av en egen taktisk antidrönarradar som används för att upptäcka mellanstora taktiska drönare på operationell nivå. En vapenfabrik har bombats i ryska Tula.
0357
Reposted by Magnus Westerstrand
Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 20/06/2025
In other words, sad for the world, sad for the trees, bad news for all the fishes in the deep blue sea, bad news for you and me. phys.org/news/2025-06...
phys.org
Climate models with low sensitivity to greenhouse gases do not align with satellite measurements
Climate models that give a low warming from increases in greenhouse gases do not match satellite measurements. Future warming will likely be worse than thought unless society acts, according to a new ...
1319267
Reposted by Magnus Westerstrand
Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 20/06/2025
Yet more confirmation, here from the ONS, that high gas prices are driving the UK's eye-wateringly high energy costs "UK electricity prices are high by international comparisons, because of the relative dependence on gas compared with other sources" www.ons.gov.uk/econo...
13413
Reposted by Magnus Westerstrand
Gurgîn Bakircioglu @gurgin.se · 19/06/2025
När människor börjar liknas vid invasiva arter är vi inte längre i debatt... då befinner vii oss i en ideologisk jävla kompost. Nachman försöker smuggla in rasbiologi genom blomsterprakt och nyckelpigor, men det luktar brunmylla lång väg. Rasismen klär ut sig till ekologi nu. Vackert!
1192
Magnus Westerstrand @magwes.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Poison in the water: the town with the world’s worst case of forever chemicals contamination www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Poison in the water: the town with the world’s worst case of forever chemicals contamination
The long read: When a small Swedish town discovered their drinking water contained extremely high levels of Pfas, they had no idea what it would mean for their health and their children’s future
010
Reposted by Magnus Westerstrand
Minister för Popmusik och Skörlevnad. @pappahutten.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
"Minister för civilt försvar" Hahahah. Det är som en jävla parodi på att leka regering.
aftonbladet.se
Uppgifter ur ministerns kalender tillgängliga på nätet
Uppgifter ur Carl-Oskar Bohlins Google-kalender finns tillgängliga på nätet. Där finns information om vilka möten ministern för civilt försvar är inbjuden till
5435
Magnus Westerstrand @magwes.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
"skogen är som tonåringar den äter en massa koldioxid" ???
140
Reposted by Magnus Westerstrand
Lars Wilderäng @larswilderang.cornucopia.se · 17/06/2025
Film på det ryska bruket av bombkapslar mot civil bebyggelse och bostäder i Kyjiiv
04810
Reposted by Magnus Westerstrand
MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
💔 The number of injured in Kyiv due to massive attack has increased to 139. There are also 15 known deaths.
821274478
Reposted by Magnus Westerstrand
Olle Bergvall @ollebergvall.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
"I Sollentuna norr om Stockholm vill kommunen få stopp på ”privat”-skyltarna – och nu ska över 100 bryggor skyltas med information om att det är fritt fram att bada." www.svt.se/nyheter/inri...
svt.se
Här tvingas privata bryggor bjuda in till bad
Så ser reglerna ut för bad på privata bryggor
18312
Reposted by Magnus Westerstrand
Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Today, we laid out our proposal to ban Russian gas imports by the end of 2027. Europe has already cut its dependence drastically. Now, we’re turning off the tap for good. Russia will no longer be able to use energy as a weapon against us.
1142254485
Reposted by Magnus Westerstrand
Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
The moment when the Russian drone directly hit a residential building in Kyiv appeared online. Russians continue to fight against civilians.
1251614771