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Sérgio Teixeira

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Degrowth. Climate change. Modern Monetary Theory. Software developer.

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Rolf Schuttenhelm @rolfschuttenhelm.bsky.social · 11h
Here's a graph that all Americans should see 👇 The insane diesel prices are 100% caused by the (lost) war with Iran, 0% by Ukraine trying to defend itself. (Note these are US EIA's own figures!)
High US diesel prices are 100% caused by war with Iran.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 11/10/2026
Your 'moment of doom' for Oct. 11, 2026 ~ Predicaments have outcomes. "To be included on the list, threats not only had to potentially cause a high number of lost healthy years, but also to have potential solutions." www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Nuclear war and malicious use of AI threaten end of humanity by 2100, says Lancet assessment
Newly established commission identifies 17 catastrophic threats to human health but says ‘realistic route to act’ on each exists
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Sérgio Teixeira @sergioteixeira.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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We Are in the Anthropocene—Now What?
The Anthropocene's enormous consequences are of long-term nature, the slow pace of recovery currently under-appreciated among the public The smallest unavoidable residual emissions (e.g., from fo...
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Sérgio Teixeira @sergioteixeira.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Today's emissions choices could limit Antarctic ice loss and sea-level rise for coastal communities
Cutting greenhouse gas emissions now may limit how much ice Antarctica loses this century and reduce the sea-level rise facing coastal communities, according to findings from a new study.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 01/10/2026
What a trainwreck. 📉
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In a proper country, this would be the moment AOC becomes President.
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Sylvain GRANDSERRE @sylvaingrandserre.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sur BFMTV, on s'est dit qu'il valait mieux une experte pour parler d'antisémitisme. Résultat : Maréchal, la voilà ! La petite-fille adorée du patriarche antisémite, raciste, xénophobe, tortionnaire et assassin, fondateur du FN avec des waffen-SS et des collabos. Bravo la chaîne d'info ! 🤮
Marion Maréchal Le Pen défendant Bardella sur BFMTV. La même en photo avec son grand-père Jean-Marie Le Pen
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WIRED @wired.com · 24/09/2026
Australia is investigating whether OpenAI broke the law after an agent hacked into its health statistics portal. It is the first widely known incident of an AI agent hacking a government website.
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An OpenAI Agent Hacked Australia’s Health Service. Their Government Found Out Months Later
The country’s prime minister expressed disappointment at being informed of the hack only via email. Now Australia is investigating whether OpenAI broke the law.
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Science X / Phys.org @sciencex.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Three electrons per sulfur atom, rather than two, gave a lithium-sulfur battery about 58% more charge per gram of sulfur in lab tests. Its average voltage rose, too. doi.org/hckkbk
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Unlocking sulfur's third electron boosts lithium-sulfur battery voltage and capacity
While lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) remain the most widely used rechargeable batteries worldwide, energy engineers have been testing various alternatives with different underlying chemistries.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 23/09/2026
Your 'moment of doom' for Sept. 23, 2026 ~ Oops! "One recent paper suggested that, for any given level of emissions, we should expect about 25 percent more warming — enough to bring a three-degree forecast above 3.5 degrees and a four-degree forecast to five degrees."
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Opinion | Climate Catastrophe Is Still on the Table
Harrowing temperature increases remain unnervingly possible.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 23/09/2026
Your 'doom quote' for today: “I think we have a very brief window of opportunity to deal with climate change ... no longer than a decade, at the most" www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna14834...
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Warming expert: Only decade left to act in time
A leading U.S. climate researcher said Wednesday the world has a 10-year window of opportunity to take decisive action on global warming and avert a catastrophe.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 23/09/2026
Wednesday El Niño update - Unsurprisingly, sea surface temperatures still remain record warm across the central Pacific. But when discussing headlines like the “strongest” El Niño, it’s an oversimplification to ignore the role of long-term tropical warming (from climate change). Data: OISSTv2.1 🌊
Line graph time series of daily sea surface temperature anomalies in the Nino3.4 region. Years are shown from 1982 to 2025 in shades of blue to light yellow, and 2026 is shown in red. Climatologically, the largest anomalies are during the boreal winter in terms of magnitude. Data is from OISSTv2.1. Map of September 21, 2026 average sea surface temperature anomalies in the ENSO monitoring regions. Data is from NOAA OISSTv2.1 with anomalies relative to a 1991-2020 baseline.Graphic showing the 4-week change in sea surface temperature anomalies across the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean from August 22, 2026 to September 21, 2026. Data is from NOAA OISSTv2.1
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
OTD in 1939, in accordance with requirements of Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, USSR handed Polish town of Bialystok over to the Nazis. As part of what we say was “preventing a genocide”, we handed 100,000 people to the Nazis. Who were very nice to all of them.
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
UN chief says 'big oil' treats atmosphere as open sewer. #climate www.afp.com/en/un-chief-...
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UN chief says 'Big Oil' treats atmosphere as open sewer
Major global oil companies are treating the atmosphere like an "open sewer," the outgoing United Nations chief Antonio Guterres said Tuesday in a withering attack on the energy...
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Would he welcome neo-Nazis too?
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 22/09/2026
Jaw-dropping documents from our lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”
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AI exec: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”
Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 22/09/2026
Continuing its voyage into uncharted waters, the latest preliminary Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature anomaly is now at a record 3.08°C above the 1991-2020 baseline. Models expect the Nino 3.4 anomaly to continue rising into at least mid-November. Then there will be dragons.
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daily bunnies 🐇✨ @dailybunnies.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Two black and brown bunnies sit in front of an outdoor hutch.
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Propaganda and disinformation works. Unfortunately.
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WIRED @wired.com · 21/09/2026
Executives happily automating their days with AI. New hires confronting bro culture. Women in tech have a lot to say—and they told it all to WIRED. www.wired.com/story/women-...
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We Surveyed 634 Women Who Work in Tech. They Let Loose
Executives happily automating their days with AI. New hires confronting bro culture. Women in tech have a lot to say—and they told it all to WIRED.
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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
My hot take on AI and climate change is that I would not like to be killed by either of them
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Little Green Space 🐝 @lgspace.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year while soaking up carbon dioxide, and can support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. Nature is amazing - we need more of it, not less. Please repost if you agree 🌳
Mature oak trees with bare branches in an autumn woodland
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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 18/09/2026
🌳 Europe's forests lost 75% of their tree types Bayreuth researchers traced tree diversity and found genus richness fell 75% after its Miocene peak, mostly during a later climate shift, leaving only cold, dry survivors. 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-77806-4 #Ecology #Forests #Science 🧪
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Cenozoic losses of tree diversity constrain climatic adaptation of Western and Central European forests - Nature Communications
This study shows that European tree diversity significantly declined over the Cenozoic due to colder conditions and glaciations. The loss of many heat-tolerant species constrains the resilience of European forests to the warming climate.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 15/09/2026
Temperatures across the Tropics set another monthly record in August 2026. The long-term warming trend is also very clear for all times of the year (i.e., human-caused climate change), which leads to growing heat stress impact concerns. Data from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social ERA5 reanalysis.
Line graph time series of monthly mean surface temperature anomalies for the Tropics region only. Every month is shown from 1940 to 2026. There is a long-term warming trend in all months of the year.
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Interesting new preprint by Susanna Winkelbauer et al. finds a weakening of #AMOC by ~ 20% over the past 3 decades (i.e. 1.23 ± 0.57 Sv per decade). egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...
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Atlantic Meridional Heat Transports from Ocean Reanalyses, Monitored Sections and Heat Budget Constraints
Abstract. Meridional ocean heat transport (MHT) plays a central role in the climate system by redistributing energy across latitudes and influencing global and regional climate variability. While sust...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
This is part of a pattern: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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MAGA Is Making the World Safe for Corruption
Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Trump's foreign policy is not isolationist. On the contrary, his ideologues want to build an international empire run by far-right political movements who serve American crypto, mineral and tech companies, many with links to the president. Read more here: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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Empire of Grift
Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 14/09/2026
The warmth over western Siberia extending into the Kara Sea basin has been very persistent this summer, with temperature anomalies easily more than 5°C above the 1981-2010 average. This is one of the fast changing parts of the #Arctic during the boreal summer season. Data from ERA5 reanalysis.
Polar stereographic map of a region across Siberia and the Barents-Kara Seas of the Arctic. The map shows temperature anomalies with red being warmer than average and blue being colder than average relative to a 1981-2010 baseline using ERA5 data. Most places are warmer than average during this month of August 2026.
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Not only will data centres steal our water, cannibalise renewable energy that could be used for decarbonising our economies, & provide a demand lifeline for planet-destroying fossil fuels, they will also comprehensively & eternally poison our air, land, & waters with PFAS
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 10/09/2026
August just barely did NOT set a new record for Total Column Precipitable Water in the Northern mid-latitudes, where 50% of humans live. Atmospheric vapor capacity increases by 7% for each 1C increase in temperature. The best curve fit is exponential.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
How nice of Russia to wait until Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff left Kyiv to bomb the city and kill Ukrainians
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The Guardian wrote this headline that helps fossil fuel companies, and buried this important point half way down the article: “Putting off or slowing down the transition is an even worse option than confronting it, however, as the climate crisis is rapidly worsening.” Why not start with this?
Idiotic headline contradicts the article’s conclusions buried deep in the article.

A disservice to humanity and journalism.
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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
2 days ago in #Palestine 's #GazaStrip "This morning, #Gaza held a funeral for 100 martyrs, including 70 children, who were killed during the ongoing war of extermination against the #GazaStrip." www.instagram.com/p/Dc8GlzUoAO... #BDS #GazaNews #Israel #MiddleEast #News #Palestine #WorldNews
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Jason Scott-Warren @jes1003.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
corporate/billionaire media marching in lockstep as usual. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The cognitive dissonance is too big for most of their voters to understand this, but whenever a party that appeases Russia and wants to end support to Ukraine wins elections in Europe, Russia becomes more likely to launch an invasion into the EU
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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The top single cause of anthropogenic methane emissions is meat and dairy production. www.unep.org/resources/re...
Estimates of bottom up methane emissions per sector, with 'Livestock and manure' single largest source, using data from Saunois et al 2025 Global Methane Budget
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 06/09/2026
Your 'doom quote' for today: "A few famous environmentalists now state publicly that it is too late for stopping catastrophic change, despite telling those of us who said that before to 'shut up'." jembendell.com/2026/08/28/a...
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A dozen disputed but now demonstrable facts about climate change from the consequential Deep Adaptation paper of 2018
In the months and years after the Deep Adaptation paper on climate change went viral with a million downloads, there was a backlash from top climatologists and environmental professionals. One of t…
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 06/09/2026
Your 'moment of hope porn' for Sept. 6, 2026 "The future lies not in the hands of political thugs and killers, of dictators and megalomaniacs, but in the hands of ordinary people everywhere. It depends on millions upon millions of individual daily acts of kindness, selflessness, faith and courage."
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The world is being driven to the brink by thugs and dictators, but there is a route to a brighter future | Simon Tisdall
It’s no surprise some analysts say we are already in the midst of the third world war, but ordinary people have more power than we think, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
If Bardella accepts Le Pen’s traitorous pro-Russian, and thus anti-French, foreign policy, he is complicit
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Protester assaulted at Reform conference: "The focus really shouldn't be on whether the police will investigate this particular assault, but rather on how Reform incite and celebrate this sort of violent behaviour."
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I was violently assaulted at Reform's conference for protesting. Here's why I did it
A PROTESTER who disrupted Reform UK's party conference in Birmingham has spoken out after they were violently assaulted by audience members.
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The graph seems to be going up faster than it used to. We’ve increased emissions instead of cutting emissions. The Canadian, British and Australian prime ministers and the German chancellor are all currently aggressively trying to increase fossil fuel emissions.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Fascism on the streets of Dover
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 05/09/2026
As gangs of masked men block Dover port, I will just leave this here www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Five Just Stop Oil activists receive record sentences for planning to block M25
Campaigners receive longest ever sentences for non-violent protest after being convicted of conspiracy to cause public nuisance
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 30/08/2026
Your 'doom quote' for today: "... human civilization as we know it will collapse and billions could die. And we’re not talking about the far distant future. We are talking about collapse within years, not centuries. For real." www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-mas...
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The Gargantuan Lie That is Collapsing The World’s Climate
Thinking we have time left to address climate change, or that “Net Zero by 2050” will save us, is driving us toward full social collapse in ways that become more obvious with every new broken temperat...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 05/09/2026
A large number of people who purport to care about the energy transition and climate told me this was a nothingburger, in 2024.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Content warning: Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 04/09/2026
🚨 Ocean temperatures continue to rise. Last month saw the hottest average global sea surface temperature on record for the month of August. Remember, human-caused climate change is the key reason for these new records. Data from NOAA ERSSTv6. I guess next month I will adjust that upper y-axis limit
Green line graph time series of average sea surface temperature anomalies for each August from 1900 through 2026. There is large interannual variability, but an overall long-term increasing trend. Anomalies are computed relative to a 1981-2010 baseline.
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Bluesky Safety @safety.bsky.app · 02/09/2026
Dogpiling or harassing users is unacceptable. We have taken recent action against accounts for this behavior, and we will be increasing our efforts, consistent with our Community Guidelines.
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Community Guidelines - Bluesky
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 04/09/2026
Your 'moment of doom' for Sept. 4, 2026 ~ Idiotic. "The world is now at 1.4 C (2.5 F) above pre-industrial levels, some scientists have calculated. The measure is based on a 20-year average, rather than a single year's temperatures." www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...
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Global warming will exceed 1.5-degree limit, UN says in report that maps path back below danger zone
In a strategic retreat in the fight against climate change, the United Nations has acknowledged that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst of global warming's harms. So now the world ...
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Minnie Rahman @minnierahman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
What else is this called??
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