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Last Notes npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun The average CO₂ concentration in the atmosphere at Mauna Loa in October was ~426.7 ppm (estimate from daily values). That's ~1.7-1.8 ppm higher than last year; a modest increase compared with the ~2.5 ppm/year average growth over the past decade. El Niño still to kick in, though. The average CO₂ concentration in the atmosphere at Mauna Loa in October was ~426.7 ppm (estimate from daily values). That's ~1.7-1.8 ppm higher than last year; a modest increase compared with the ~2.5 ppm/year average growth over the past decade. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun For decades, US voters got to choose between Republicans and Democrats. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Netherlands-based, French-owned Giga Storage closes €260 million debt financing for 350 MW/1,400 MWh [4-hr] battery system in N-Germany, to be built by China's CATL, in operation early 2029. To be directly connected to Amprion's 380 kV-extra high voltage grid. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Israel's ongoing big side war: npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun At the current natural gas price of around €100 per MWh, a 4.2 MW onshore wind turbine getting 3,500 full-load hours* saves us €2.5 million per year in LNG imported from Trump's US, Putin's Russia (until the end of the year) and other places. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Dutch news site nu.nl gets it right: npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun A bit of light at the end of the Netanyahu tunnel: npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Brazil: Voters keep authoritarian Bolsonaro clan out, despite interference by Trump and his tech billionaires. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun It looks like the students beat authoritarian Vucic in the Serbian elections!! npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Former Likud PM of Israel Ehud Olmert accuses Netanyahu of war crimes in Gaza and ethnic cleansing on the West Bank. "The Israeli government was never interested in ending the war (in Gaza). They wanted to keep fighting and increasing the hysteria and fear in Israel." https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/10/23/oud-premier-ehud-olmert-van-israel-ik-hoop-dat-kiezers-netanyahu-wegvagen-a4939292 npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Just now, the EU wholesale natural gas price reached a new high since the US and Israel started their war against Iran: 94 €/MWh. That's about three times the price before the war. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Trump says he asked Google CEO to rename Atlantic Ocean to American Ocean or Trump Ocean on Maps. That's what happens when you bow to a bully once. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun The record warm Mediterranean - due to climate change - strikes again. 191 mm of rain in one hour on Corsica. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun One Antarctic glacier, now expected to raise global sea level by 3 cm this century, and a lot more after that. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Bizarre: Data centres have a total of 15 GW (15,000 MW) in queue for electricity connections in the Netherlands, grid operators just disclosed. That's roughly the current average national power use! npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun In Small Modular (nuclear) Reactors, a Final Investment Decision apparently isn't final. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun SpaceX suddenly throttled access to Starlink with no warning, Ukraine says. https://trib.al/rZAjLWp npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun No, the drought isn't over yet. Despite some rain here in the Netherlands in recent weeks, the water flow in the Rhine is still in record low territory: around 600 m³/s, less than half of the normal flow in autumn. This keeps drawing groundwater away too. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Hackers force French supermarket fridges to heat up to 50C in ‘unprecedented’ cyber-attack npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Google told to halt work on datacentres in Finland after it felled 330 hectares (815 acres) of forest in Muhos plus 200 hectares in Kajaani without completing an environmental impact assessment (EIA). npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun As could be expected, data centres are becoming war targets. Yandex is an essential part of the Russian internet and also runs meal delivery and taxis. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Israel compares Nobel Committee to Joseph Goebbels after Peace Prize award to former ICC judge who documented its ongoing genocide in Gaza. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun In primary school (1960s), we learned that mountain areas above 3,000 m altitude in the Alps had eternal snow. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Trying to teach myself to use https://openstreetmap.org instead of the oligarchs' Google Maps. It's pretty good! npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun The continued warm weather has now brought 2026 to the #1 spot on the list of warmest years-to-date in the Netherlands (at main met station De Bilt). npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Just looked up what the current leader of the UK Conservative Party would do about climate change. Oh. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Major flash flooding in Spain yesterday. In Madrigueras (Albacete), 142 mm fell in just 2.5 hours, killing one woman, while many others had to be rescued. These "DANA" events are not uncommon, but record warm Mediterranean water now provides further 'fuel' to them. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun ~426.0 ppm: September average of atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa, estimated from daily values. That's another ~1.7 ppm higher than last year. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Lowest on record (1866-2026)! npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Data centres in the Netherlands used 4.6% of all electricity in 2024, and transmission system operator TenneT expects this to double or triple to 10-15% by 2030! npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun It's 2026, and Morocco gets its first female Prime Minister, while the Netherlands still hasn't ever had one. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun On average, the Dutch think that 20% of the people here is Muslim (it's 5%). npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun The Rhine is in uncharted territory. Normal flow where it enters the Netherlands is around 1,500 m³/s in September. Now it's well below 600 m³/s... and still going down. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun The video that Zuckerberg doesn't want you to see (Meta censored it). npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Dude just informed me that the sun doesn't shine at night... npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Two years after its completion (after 17 years of construction, 2007-2024), France's new nuclear power plant Flamanville 3 will shut down for a year starting this coming Saturday. This to replace its faulty reactor lid and for a major first inspection. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Strong advice from a US Senator for Dutch MP Rob Jetten and his government. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Lowering fuel taxes when supply is tight is stupid policy: it keeps demand and prices artificially high, most of it ends up with those who don't need support, and in the end, it's a money transfer from people who use little or no fuel to people who use a lot, e.g. SUV owners. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun "After a summer that hit hard, Dutch government's silence on climate is deafening". npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun In the Netherlands, the 2026 summer drought just isn't over yet. Precipitation deficit (evaporation minus rainfall) is going up again in a warm and dry September week, ending the season in the top 5% of driest years on record. At the end of the month, the deficit will be ~3 times higher than in a median year. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Saudi Arabia shuts down East-West crude oil pipeline - its bypass for the Strait of Hormuz - after multiple attacks npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Today, the Trump-Netanyahu mess in the Middle East has driven up EU natural gas price even higher: 77 €/MWh now. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun The crazy amounts already needed for climate adaptation make serious climate action look like a walk in the park (financially). npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun "Future generations would rather have a high national debt than an unlivable planet." npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun August average atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa: ~427.3 ppm npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun 11 years after the Paris Agreement, @nprofile…72ze concludes that keeping global warming below 1.5°C is now impossible, because global fossil fuel use and emissions kept growing (slowly) instead of going down. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun The large remaining gap to an 80% filling level of EU gas storages by the start of the heating season is starting to get noticed in the media. They note that the situation 'differs by country'. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Peter Thiel in a 2014 email to a fellow anti-democracy activist: npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Making use of the Trump regime's anti-science actions, Canada just attracted 48 US professors and their teams 'in competition with Europe'. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun London Science Museum cuts links with BP after decades of partnership npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun US military academy students are not allowed to learn basic facts about climate change anymore. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Dutch state-owned gas transmission company Gasunie confirms that the Netherlands will not be able to meet its gas storage filling targets of 74% (EU commitment) or 80% (government goal) by October. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun German state leader urges joint action to avert Volkswagen plant closures. Such a pity that the company spent so much time and effort in hiding the emissions of its diesel engines instead of racing to become an EV company. https://www.reuters.com/world/china/german-state-leader-urges-joint-action-avert-volkswagen-plant-closures-2026-08-24 npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Just arrived: The Nerd Reich, by @nprofile…3uy8. Not a fun weekend read, but important, I'm afraid. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun You won't find this in the headlines, because the media rate it as not serious. But that contributes to the continuous sanewashing of Trump: Trying to make sense of his weird speeches and 'policies', snd leaving out the absurd parts. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Trump threatens to use military force against high interest rates in the US. 🤡 npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Dutch farmer, protesting against environmental measures to reduce nitrogen pollution, amid crashing biodiversity: npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun At 100 million barrels per day, the current $30/barrel Trump-Netanyahu surcharge costs the world around $3 billion per day. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Don't look up, summer 2026 edition. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun One of their problems is that most economists calculate the impact in terms of GDP. They don't care whether an increasing share of that gets spent on adaptation and repairing damage, leaving less for other things. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun "Economic damage from climate change arrives sooner than expected", headline in @nprofile…gxe4 today. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun North Sea (30 km from the Dutch coast) reaches all-time high temperature of 21.5°C, beating the previous record set in 2018. This of course leads to heavier rainfall events, and damage to nature and fisheries. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun After a 3-week summer holiday to Norway with our electric car (a VW ID.4), my conclusion is that the charging infrastructure is still in its infancy. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Like practically all far-right parties, Reform UK want to stop climate action. Perfectly aligned with fossil fuel interests, and could well be related to their murky financing. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun In the media competition 'How to trivialise climate change', Dutch @nrc.nl has this strong entry on its frontpage today: npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun German farmers warn drought will spell heavy crop losses. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun 12,500 people in Germany alone died due to the heat so far this summer. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun The water flow in the Rhine keeps plummeting. It had never been below 780 m³/s in summer. When we were at 650, an expert told us it couldn't go much lower. Now we're at 572 m³/s, the lowest on record, even below the ice blocked flow in the winter of 1929. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun 'Drought will cost Money' npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Farmers' protest against environmental measures in the Netherlands: 2 people dead in car crash because the farmers were once more allowed to take their tractors on the highway. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Never forget that the clowns who are currently saying "We can't stop climate change, just accept it" are the same people who spent the last decade doing everything possible to prevent us from stopping climate change. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Climate bills are coming in now, big time: Rhine shipping cut in two as ships coming from Rotterdam can't get any further than Duisburg or Cologne anymore, instead of being able to reach Switzerland or even further via the Danube. Billions of damage for German industry. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Tough times ahead for gas stations and fossil fuel suppliers in Denmark. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun All-time low water flow in the river Rhine! npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun "Greenland's elected leaders now face a delicate decision. They could grant permission for oil drilling, even though the planned wells appear to fall within a wetlands conservation area. Or they could refuse and, some worry, give Trump a pretext to advance his imperialist agenda." npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun An American oil company connected to Trump is preparing to sink wells in remote Greenland despite not having received permission from the local authorities. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun This burning summer is the proof: the voices of climate denial aren’t just delusional, they’re deadly. From the Mayor of London. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Dutch farmers like to say they 'feed the world', but all their livestock needs massive imports of fodder; the world feeds our pigs. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun The EU is not on track to achieve the necessary filling level of its natural gas storages, making it vulnerable to timely delivery of LNG from Trump's US and the Persian Gulf this coming winter. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Seeing the beautiful and still impressive Norwegian glaciers, it's sad to know they're rapidly retreating. One sign said "If we manage to keep global warming below 1.5°C, around 25-30% of the glaciers can be preserved." npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Code Black for water shortage in the Delft region of the Netherlands! No use of surface water (canals, lakes) allowed anymore. Water managers fear intrusion of salty seawater, as damage to dikes due to low water levels needs to be prevented. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Five days ago, the Rhine - at the point where it enters the Netherlands - reached its lowest level ever recorded: 6.47 meter above sea level. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Dutch @nprofile…kfps meteorological institute: July was extremely dry: average rainfall in the Netherlands 13 mm, that's 83% below normal. It was the 8th warmest July on record. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Angry farmers block Dutch highway but don't get fined. Because... they had covered their licence plates 🤦♂️🤦♀️🤦 npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun The nasty little thing with climate change is that the situation progressively gets worse as long as we emit greenhouse gases, and that is irreversible. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Record low water level in the Danube river forced Hungary to shut down its nuclear power plant today, probably for weeks. It normally provides almost half the country's electricity. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun This El Niño is set to be the largest on record by a ‘mind-blowing margin’ npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun France's wildfires already are the most widespread in modern records. (In other 'news', climate deniers in the UK and from the Trump regime deny the severity of the situation). npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Dutch gas storages, among the largest in the EU, are only 36.6% full today, 31 July, just two months ahead of the typical end of the filling season (30 September). npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Lowest ever Rhine water flow measured at the German-Dutch border in July was 782 m³/s, in 1976. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Europe needs approximately 10 standard LNG tankers to import 1 billion cubic meters (bcm) of gaseous natural gas. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Normal road sign in Denmark: prices of petrol/gasoline, diesel, and electricity at the local 'fuel' station. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Spain's PM Sánchez, speaking at a firefighters’ command post near Madrid, connects the dots: npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Taking the electric car to Norway, and noting the enormous difference between German Raststätte (dirty, junk food, too few chargers, some out of order, out in the rain) and their Danish equivalents (clean, OK food, ample chargers, all functioning, under a solar roof). npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun You'd hope this was AI, but it's an actual holiday picture from Dutch tourists in France. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun "We will rebuild", says Macron. Yeah, perhaps, though not everyone will be able to afford it. But the heatwaves and droughts will keep getting worse, and there will be more and more to rebuild. Dead end street unless we reduce global emissions to (net) zero. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Climate bills are coming in: 153 houses destroyed by climate-fueled wildfires in the village of Le Porge, not far from Bordeaux. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Macron mobilises French military as ‘unprecedented’ wildfire approaches Bordeaux. 44,000 people evacuated here; over 100,000 in total in SW-Framce. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Wildfires are raging in Europe as over 80,000 forced to evacuate. Spain has declared a national emergency and, in France, two fires threaten a major tourist hotspot. Two fires merge outside Madrid, with a third on the verge of combining. https://news.sky.com/story/europe-wildfires-latest-french-tourist-hotspot-evacuated-as-national-emergency-declared-in-spain-13566532 npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun A bit of advice to Mark Rutte and others, from the former commander of the US Armed Forces in Europe.
