Nostr notes by Eric Maugendre about carbon

## shortage of commodities * Inflation is increase in prices of ...

2026-11-02T20:55:08Z

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## shortage of commodities

* Inflation is increase in prices of goods and services.
* Inflation is not triggered by “too much money chasing too few goods.” Public spending and bank credits create money, which in turn may increase demand, but only gradually and indirectly.
* Wars, pandemics, droughts, etc. can slash the availability of key goods. Such threats permit big providers to demand ever increasing prices.

Think scarcity of strategic commodities like IT or wheat.
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During 1992–2020, the USA had low and stable inflation. Despite ...

2026-11-02T20:22:25Z

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During 1992–2020, the USA had low and stable inflation. Despite massive federal deficit spending, the Fed met its 2% inflation target (or missed below it) for most of this era.

How come? There were no serious shortage of resources. (Thanks to: no cold war, globalization, bad working conditions, stable commodity supply, increase of greenhouse effect.)

>"What are the possible causes of this rise in yields and ...

2026-11-02T20:17:47Z

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>"What are the possible causes of this rise in yields and why are investors and financial analysts making such a fuss? There are four main reasons presented by the experts: rising global #inflation; high government #debt; booming private capital #investment increasing borrowing needs; and increased #uncertainty about a future economic crisis."

Michael Roberts (2026). https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2026/09/04/bond-bust/

You may note that state #deficit or social monetary fluxes are not in the reasons for higher interest rates or costlier credit.

"How we fight inflation doesn’t just matter for the ...

2026-11-02T20:11:18Z

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"How we fight inflation doesn’t just matter for the economy. It matters for democracy.
"If government decisions leave people poorer, more indebted and less secure, we risk deepening the conditions that have emboldened the far-right."

Isabella Weber (2026). "Interest rates are a blunt tool in the fight against the rising price of essential items", archived from FT: https://archive.ph/sXCM6

Central Banks do not function as they claim to: "I think Zack ...

2026-11-02T19:58:47Z

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Central Banks do not function as they claim to: "I think Zack Polanski should ask:
1. Why is Labour allowing Bank of England to abdicate its public duties during crisis?
2. How are interest rate hikes going to deal with inflationary pressures triggered by oil shocks without inflicting massive further damage on our battered economy?
3. If inflation is not a monetary phenomenon, but a cost shock, why fight it with interest rate tools which work on chocking demand?
4. Are we dialling up the affordability crisis just so Andrew Bailey can say he’s fighting inflation with the wrong tools?
5. If this crisis requires fiscal tools/price controls - as Labour seems to be accepting - then why should the TAXPAYER bear the costs entirely, and not together w the public institution in charge of public money creation?"

Daniela Gabor (March 2026)

## interest rates are a discredited tool >"There are ...

2026-11-02T19:55:43Z

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## interest rates are a discredited tool

>"There are fiscal and other measures that can and should be taken to alleviate particular sectoral inflationary pressures, and that are likely to be more effective than broad-based interest rate increases."

Joseph Stiglitz, Ira Regmi (2022). "The Causes of and Responses to Today’s Inflation" https://rooseveltinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/RI_CausesofandResponsestoTodaysInflation_Report_202212.pdf

For Stiglitz and Regmi, inflation isn’t due to too much #money. Rather, it’s due to things like wars and pandemics, mass deaths, lack of daycare, other policies.

#taxes #economy #inflation

To control inflation, interest rates are a discredited tool. A ...

2026-11-02T19:21:09Z

To control inflation, interest rates are a discredited tool.
A cause of transitory inflation thrust is more demand than supply.
Causes of long-run inflation want political work.

You can read the thread or the article: "policies of inflation reduction" http://data.yt/kit/how-to-reduce-inflation
The latter will be updated after your comments. 🧵

Climate change is a direct consequence of heat accumulating on ...

2026-11-01T08:05:28Z

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Climate change is a direct consequence of heat accumulating on the planet.
We can see that the energy excess varies wildly but that the direction is constant. The trend is about 0.04 or 0.05 W/m² more heat per year.

Earth's energy imbalance):

Some climate models are better than others. (Continued) "We ...

2026-10-31T18:03:19Z

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Some climate models are better than others. (Continued)

"We find that the kilometer-scale IFS-FESOM model outperforms even the best CMIP6 models, while other kilometer-scale models still have considerable deficits."
Lukas Brunner et al. (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-026-03497-w

Some climate models are better than others. (Continued) "For ...

2026-10-31T18:02:04Z

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Some climate models are better than others. (Continued)

"For the example of annual maximum temperature, the difference between the 10 km and 100 km grid spacings can exceed 10°C."
Lukas Brunner et al. (2025) https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ade1ef via anlomedad (npub1l5j…qwsw)

#climate #climateChange #climateModels

Even if sea surface temperature triples when earth energy ...

2026-10-30T17:14:12Z

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Even if sea surface temperature triples when earth energy imbalance triples, the ocean is slower because it withstands most heat:

#CMIP6 "models are not able to match many long-term trends in ...

2026-10-29T16:35:31Z

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#CMIP6 "models are not able to match many long-term trends in the observed gradient, especially those that end more recently. Models that are able to match [temperature] trends do so through excessive internal variability that compensates for their gradient-weakening forced responses. We additionally find that trends in the observed gradient strengthen at an increasing rate with time, a forced response that is in contrast to the behavior of most models."

Hannah Byrne, Richard Seager, Jason E. Smerdon, "CMIP6 models cannot capture long-term forced changes in the tropical Pacific sea surface temperature gradient" (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-66839-w

In climatology, the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project #CMIP ...

2026-10-29T16:23:51Z

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In climatology, the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project #CMIP is a collaborative framework about knowledge of climate change. 🧵

CMIP upholds caution and consensus. By design collaboration is vulnerable to toning down and smallest common denominators:

New study extracts dominant influence routes from massive climate ...

2026-10-28T19:23:50Z

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New study extracts dominant influence routes from massive climate datasets. It shows causal pathways between teleconnections.
The computing framework avoids ML. Phases include:
• Gridded data is transformed and stored in relational and graph databases for fast geospatial retrieval.
• The pipeline attacks dimensionality through spatial clustering.
• Causal processing: one representative time series per cluster is computed by the SLARAC method.
• A Yen’s k-shortest path algorithm extracts the most relevant causal chains.

Cruz, J. E. C., da Rocha, V. R., de Andrade, F. M., & Quiles, M. G. (2026). "A multivariate causal chain detection methodology assessed on the ENSO modulation of the Northeastern Brazil precipitation" https://doi.org/10.1007/s41060-026-01322-3

#ENSO #ElNiño #causality #climate #weather #SLARAC #networks #dataEngineering #Brazil

Teleconnection in atmospheric science refers to climate anomalies ...

2026-10-28T16:52:19Z

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Teleconnection in atmospheric science refers to climate anomalies being related to each other at large distances (typically thousands of kilometers).
Teleconnections are recurrent – as similar patterns tend to occur repeatedly.
An emblematic teleconnection is that linking sea-level pressure at Tahiti and Darwin, Australia, which defines the atmospheric component of El Niño.

#ENSO #ElNiño #climate #modeling #modelling #models

Here is a thread on climate modelling. 🧵 A climate model is an ...

2026-10-28T16:48:05Z

Here is a thread on climate modelling. 🧵

A climate model is an abstract description of climate using mathematical concepts or computer language.
It is used to simulate climate dynamics and interactions of components and drivers of climate (such as the greenhouse effect, atmosphere, oceans, land surface, ice).

… In most of Spain and France, "the soil moisture index ...

2026-09-20T18:31:13Z

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In most of Spain and France, "the soil moisture index reaches 0% in the first nine centimetres. The surface horizons are completely dried out, making germination and emergence conditions particularly unfavourable." — Dr. Serge Zaka

Soil is dry, darn dry. So the few baby plants that may raise will remain puny.
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… Now is the time to seed the "winter" crops. No rain ...

2026-09-20T18:06:27Z

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Now is the time to seed the "winter" crops.
No rain is expected. So seedlings are not often going to sprout.
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Agricultural production this summer was very difficult. The next ...

2026-09-20T17:49:30Z

Agricultural production this summer was very difficult.
The next crops may not be expected in Europe. Why is that? 🧵

“An icefall and landslide can be seen.” “An ice and debris ...

2026-08-26T21:21:26Z

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“An icefall and landslide can be seen.”
“An ice and debris lake formed and then burst."

"Satellite images obtained from Chinese authorities show the blockage occurred about 20 kilometres upstream of the Miteri Bridge before a sudden surge swept downstream."

https://kathmandupost.com/national/2026/08/26/ice-avalanche-debris-lake-may-have-triggered-bhotekoshi-flood

#Bhotekoshi #flood #Tibet #Nepal

"The full extent of the deaths and damage caused by the ...

2026-08-26T19:15:54Z

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"The full extent of the deaths and damage caused by the enormous flash flood that swept down a river valley in Nepal and Tibet today won’t be clear for weeks. But initial analyses of satellite images and seismic data suggest that the collapse of a high glacier caused the disaster."

"Melting snow appears to have weakened a steep glacier at an altitude of 5 kilometres, causing it to plummet around a kilometre into the river valley below."

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2586497-a-glacier-collapse-is-most-likely-cause-of-the-nepal-disaster/

#glacier #flood #Tibet #Nepal

"A huge section of Greenland’s Petermann Glacier has ...

2026-08-26T19:12:07Z

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"A huge section of Greenland’s Petermann Glacier has snapped off, forming an ice island about the size of Manhattan. Satellites watched cracks spread rapidly before the 76-square-kilometer slab finally broke free on August 4. It is the glacier’s biggest calving event since 2012, and scientists say two even larger pieces could eventually follow. The rare Arctic iceberg will now be tracked as it drifts, breaks apart, and potentially affects shipping routes."

Adam Garbo, a PhD student from the University of Ottawa, said, "Petermann Glacier has long been one of Greenland's largest remaining ice tongues. We've anticipated this break for years, and seeing it finally happen is remarkable. It's a powerful reminder of how quickly these systems can change."

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260823094145.htm

#glaciers #Greenland #cliamteChange #globalHeating

The mean sea level rises but it does not plunge coastal cities ...

2026-08-19T20:38:11Z

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The mean sea level rises but it does not plunge coastal cities under water.
Coastal cities flood when one event overtops the defences.
The number of such submersions already is increasing according to a scientific study:
Dangendorf, S., Sun, Q., Maduwantha, P. et al. "Human-driven sea-level rise has quadrupled the frequency of coastal sea-level extremes since 1900" (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-026-02659-0

#seaRise #submersion #flooding #climateChange #ocean #urban #PortoAlegre

"Ice shelves provide a key source of stability to the ...

2026-08-19T20:17:33Z

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"Ice shelves provide a key source of stability to the Antarctic Ice Sheet by buttressing the flow of grounded ice. As ice shelves weaken and collapse due to rising temperatures, the glaciers buttressed by them speed up, increasing Antarctica’s contribution to sea level rise. Pine Island Glacier is the fastest flowing glacier in Antarctica and the ice shelf that buttresses it has undergone significant change in the last decade, resulting in a 20% increase in ice velocity. We compare observations to models to better understand the processes contributing to buttressing loss and conclude the Pine Island Ice Shelf has lost significant buttressing as the margins have deteriorated, destabilizing the grounding line and accelerating mass loss from West Antarctica."

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2602994123

#climateChange #Antartica #climate #climateCollapse #climateHeating #globalHeating #oceans

More electricity anywhere implies more pollution in subordinate ...

2026-08-06T06:28:07Z

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More electricity anywhere implies more pollution in subordinate areas:
https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/117042538970544268

#mining #energyTransition #cleanTransition #windAndSolar
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Western Australia, hard-rock mining is powered by diesel-run ...

2026-08-04T20:53:50Z

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Western Australia, hard-rock mining is powered by diesel-run machinery, which creates a lot of localized and atmospheric pollution. In theory it could operate with battery power, but the mining industry is not yet decarbonized. The container ships that transport Australian lithium to China are powered by bunker fuel, a very polluting form of fossil energy, and processed in coal-powered refineries. That’s probably the most polluting, most carbon-intensive part of the lithium sector."

Thea Riofrancos, Strategic Co-Director at the Climate and Community Institute, an advocate for lithium-based batteries: https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii159/articles/thea-riofrancos-the-new-world-climate-order 🧵

#mining #batteries #climatePolicy #lithium #greenTransition #greenCapitalism #environment #extractivism #energy #energyTransition #Australia

Dr. James Hansen: "If we want the accelerated warming to slow ...

2026-08-04T18:22:19Z

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Dr. James Hansen: "If we want the accelerated warming to slow down, we must get Earth’s energy imbalance to decrease. That means the world needs to get serious about reducing the human made climate forcing, and the world has not got very serious yet." 🧵

Land and marine heatwaves, droughts, fires, floods, landslides, ...

2026-08-03T16:22:02Z

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Land and marine heatwaves, droughts, fires, floods, landslides, sea-level rise, super-charged typhoons, weather whiplash.

Climate forcing is harmful, fossil energies cause it, we know who the biggest perpetrators are.

"Systematic attribution of heatwaves to the emissions of carbon majors": https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09450-9

#attribution #climateChange #climateForcing #oilAndGas

Climate forcing: some activities force the climate. The missing ...

2026-08-02T16:09:27Z

Climate forcing: some activities force the climate.
The missing words in the climate conversation are not human-caused or climate change, but forcing and attribution to fossil fuels, mining, bovine husbandry, tree plantations, etc.

In the same vein, here is an article by Hayley Fowler and Ed Hawkins: https://theconversation.com/was-this-heatwave-caused-by-climate-change-were-asking-the-wrong-question-288637

#attribution #climateForcing #climateChange #fossilFuels

“Rapidly melting Antarctic ice shelves may cause global sea ...

2026-07-29T18:45:49Z

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“Rapidly melting Antarctic ice shelves may cause global sea levels to rise far faster than expected – new study”

“Current climate models do not capture this effect... This means that they risk underestimating the sensitivity the ‘cold’ ice shelves along Eastern Antarctica’s coastline to small changes or warming in coastal waters. Such changes have already been observed, and are projected to increase in the future”

https://ic3.uit.no/news/hattermann-sea-level-rise

#climateChange #Antartica #climate

French Polynesia objects to a Big Tech seabed mining plan made ...

2026-07-28T13:01:48Z

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French Polynesia objects to a Big Tech seabed mining plan made without its input
https://grist.org/indigenous/french-polynesia-objects-to-an-american-seabed-mining-plan-made-without-its-input/

#Mining sub-Saharan Africa is expanding rapidly. This poses a key ...

2026-07-27T20:46:16Z

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#Mining sub-Saharan Africa is expanding rapidly. This poses a key threat to tropical forests.

"For every hectare of direct deforestation due to the mine footprint, mining triggers, on average, 34 hectares of additional offsite loss within five years through ancillary activities, including agriculture and settlements. Mines extracting cobalt and copper—key energy transition minerals—caused the highest amount of additional deforestation."

Morton et al. (2026). "Mining triggers extensive additional deforestation in sub-Saharan Africa" https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10551-2 🧩 🧵

#extraction #landscape #pollution #cobalt #copper #gold #climateChange #rivers #deforestation #soil #carbon #causality #land #footprint #forests #landLoss #landUse #Africa #Congo #DRC #Centrafrique #Zambia #ZA #SouthAfrica

Consequence paths of CO₂ emissions from land use change and ...

2026-07-26T08:59:16Z

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Consequence paths of CO₂ emissions from land use change and fires:
(Mining [not shown in chart],) climate change and forest management contribute to forest degradation and wildfires; which in turn force the greenhouse effect.

#feedbacks #GreenhouseForcing #forests #GHG #emissions #carbon #CDR #CO2 #climateChange #DAG

Rivers convey more and more particulate sediments and mercury to ...

2026-07-26T08:48:31Z

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Rivers convey more and more particulate sediments and mercury to the oceans.
How come?
1. climate change (in the polar regions),
2. deforestation and mining (in the tropics)
3. damming.

Beautiful charts: https://bsky.app/profile/geolidf.bsky.social/post/3mjg7uho35s2h

I am starting a thread on global land loss 🧵 #sediments ...

2026-07-26T08:45:49Z

I am starting a thread on global land loss 🧵

#sediments #mining #climate #rivers #deforestation #soil #carbon #causality #land #footprint #dataViz

"The permeability of permafrost as it thaws and refreezes is ...

2026-06-30T16:18:38Z

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"The permeability of permafrost as it thaws and refreezes is unknown. […] These initial results indicate that the protective gas seal previously provided by permafrost will be lost as permafrost thaws."

Glover et al. (2026). https://doi.org/10.1029/2025EF007232

#Artic #climate #climateChange #globalWarming #permafrost #emissions #carbon #feedback

Feedback of global warming: "We treat each WIE source ...

2026-06-30T16:17:31Z

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Feedback of global warming:

"We treat each WIE source independently and do not account for interactions between them, such as permafrost thaw expanding wetland extent through thermokarst formation, or the recursive effect where WIE-induced warming itself drives further WIE".

"For CO2, which accumulates in the atmosphere, a sustained emission rate produces a radiative forcing that increases over time, so the cumulative impact on carbon budgets depends on the duration of elevated temperature, not just the magnitude of warming. When we evaluate our permafrost CO2 results to compare with the AR6 framework, we find that the correction terms are 60, 123, and 138 Pg CO2 ℃⁻¹ for SSP1-2.6, SSP2-4.5, and SSP4-6.0, respectively".

excerpt from Sam Abernethy et al. (2026). https://doi.org/10.22541/essoar.15002332/v1

#climateChange #globalWarming #permafrost #emissions #carbon #wildfires #wetlands #methane #CO2

Climate change impacts ecosystems and makes some of them emit ...

2026-06-29T19:52:48Z

Climate change impacts ecosystems and makes some of them emit more carbon gas. 🧵

Here is an assessment that may add a degree Celsius ºC or about 30 ºF to IPCC projections.

Sam Abernethy et al. (2026). https://doi.org/10.22541/essoar.15002332/v1

Here below are graphs of the incremental heating that would come on top of activity-induced ("anthropogenic") warming. Beware that the ridge of the curves is entirely plausible: σ is a measure of the uncertainty in predicting the outcome; σ is way smaller that the extent of uncertainty:

#Trees dramatically help coping with a heatwave. Trees will be ...

2026-06-26T09:03:18Z

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#Trees dramatically help coping with a heatwave.
Trees will be more and more difficult to grow.
So we should preserve trees; for example:
• you would go pressure your local government to forbid felling down trees;
• i am just back from spotting a tree with drying leaves and watering it far from the trunk.

#shade #heatwave

How to cope in a #heatwave? (I am setting aside things that ...

2026-06-18T17:01:52Z

How to cope in a #heatwave?

(I am setting aside things that society should have organised before, such as migrations and stopping fossil fuels.)

Humans are fit to give away heat by sweating. So wear ample clothes and drink – every hour.

Cold water and direct blower fans hit the body. You'd rather drink warm and move slowly.

Shut down any air flow in the morning and open up for the night. If you have an electric fan, direct it to the window; to help heat evacuate.

#weather #heat #Hitze

"Most... models that inform international policy don’t ...

2026-05-31T07:45:56Z

"Most... models that inform international policy don’t consider this feedback loop at all. The IPCC treats melting as a fixed, rather than interactive input."

https://today.umd.edu/umd-led-study-points-to-hidden-accelerant-in-antarctic-ice-loss

#climatePolicy #feedback #IPCC #models #scenarios #modeling #modelling

New study uses causal analysis to demonstrate big reductions in ...

2026-04-19T16:43:08Z

New study uses causal analysis to demonstrate big reductions in carbon emissions if fewer bovines.
In ten years, methane emissions from all activities if bovine stop would be 80 % of methane emissions from all activities if no intervention.
Results and causation are presented at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19019693

#carbon #causality #causalInference #causation #confounding #counterFactuals #emissions #GHG #methane #offPolicy #policy #publicPolicy

Hello Prof @npub12pw…zvxn . Thank you for your insight. Indeed ...

2025-08-09T09:39:43Z

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Hello Prof @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us has moved (npub12pw…zvxn) . Thank you for your insight.
Indeed the finance sector creates more money than sovereign countries.
I suggest that it is important that we monitor both:
* finance because crashes and CO2;
* countries because politics.

Kermode (npub1lje…ql7a)

#CO2 #emissions #MMT #finance #sovereignty #bubble #macroEconomy #macroEconomics #economy #economics

A US president pushed the subject of money manipulation recently ...

2025-08-08T18:11:40Z

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A US president pushed the subject of money manipulation recently 🙂
This is why it "is the second time you've read this notion in a week's time."

Since you are interested, here is more: https://mas.to/@maugendre/114389038247317503

@npub13yy…7csh @npub1xh2…u80r (1/5) Ann Davis: “Radical ...

2025-07-23T08:37:28Z

economics group (npub13yy…7csh) economics-that-works group (npub1xh2…u80r) (1/5)

Ann Davis: “Radical Political Economy will make clear the political choices, while mainstream economics will claim that there are none.”

by Michael Roberts
https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2025/06/25/ahe-2025-imperialism-china-and-financialisation/

#China #marxistEconomics #MarxianEconomics #economicTransfers #imperialism #MichaelRoberts #wages #economics #economy

@npub13yy…7csh @npub1xh2…u80r “An increasing number of ...

2025-05-14T20:55:09Z

economics group (npub13yy…7csh) economics-that-works group (npub1xh2…u80r)

“An increasing number of Chinese industries are in acute rivalry with high-value American industries, and China’s gains are our losses. The US cannot remain a military superpower without being an industrial superpower.”

Michael Roberts reviews the book: https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2025/05/13/geonomics-nationalism-and-trade/

#MAGA #industrialPolicy #macroEconomics #Trumpism #geonomics #geoEconomics #protectionism #tariffs #devaluation #economy #economics #nationalism #USA #China #Fasteau #Fletcher

@npub13yy…7csh @npub1xh2…u80r “An increasing number of ...

2025-05-14T20:51:02Z

economics group (npub13yy…7csh) economics-that-works group (npub1xh2…u80r)

“An increasing number of Chinese industries are in acute rivalry with high-value American industries, and China’s gains are our losses. The US cannot remain a military superpower without being an industrial superpower.”

Michael Roberts: https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2025/05/13/geonomics-nationalism-and-trade/

#MAGA #industrialPolicy #macroEconomics #Trumpism #geonomics #geoEconomics #freeTrade #protectionnism #tariffs #devaluation #economy #economics #nationalism #USA #China #Fasteau #Fletcher

There is no #transition: Climate policies reduce annual GHG ...

2024-11-11T15:02:38Z

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There is no #transition:
Climate policies reduce annual GHG #emissions by about 1 Gt/year (0.6 to 1.8 giga-tonnes of CO₂-equivalent/year): https://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/publications/climate-policies-that-achieved-major-emission-reductions-global-evidence-from-two-decades
So, policies of climate change #mitigation achieve 2% of the requirements. Emissions continue at around 50 times more: http://data.yt/projections/2024-results.html#overview-chart

#climatePolicies #greenTransition #energyTransition #footprint #GHG #CO2 #policies #carbon #offsets #COP29 #sovereignty #money #power #policies #policy #debt #politics #economy #ParisAgreement

"European banks’ sectoral policies are too weak overall, as ...

2024-11-07T11:51:22Z

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"European banks’ sectoral policies are too weak overall, as only four restrict financing to companies developing new oil and gas fields, and only one prohibits financing to LNG export terminal developers."

#ReclaimFinance: https://reclaimfinance.org/site/en/2024/11/07/european-banks-and-transition-time-for-a-reality-check/

#oilAndGas #energy #banks #finance #Europe #greenCapitalism #EU #carbon #growth #spillovers #transition #greenTransition #energyTransition #drill #development #growth #economy

"The need for decarbonisation poses an existential threat to ...

2024-10-28T16:12:23Z

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"The need for decarbonisation poses an existential threat to the #oilAndGas industry, which is why they have created multiple ‘escape hatches’ to continue fossil fuel burning, including techno-fixes like CCUS and carbon removals. […] Europe is showering public money and policy support on these dangerous distractions designed to keep Big Oil and Gas in business."
https://corporateeurope.org/en/CarbonCoupRevisited

#lobbying #ICM #energy #offsets #Europe #greenCapitalism #EU #carbon #growth #spillovers #transition #lobbies

🧵 For societies that retain for themselves currency ...

2024-10-17T19:24:12Z

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For societies that retain for themselves currency sovereignty, anything that is technically feasible, is affordable.

Demonstration by Peter Cooper (2021): https://heteconomist.com/the-core-significance-of-taxation-and-currency-sovereignty-in-a-nutshell/

#debt #deficit #sovereignty #money #centralBanks #currency #MMT #power #wealth #settlements #transactions #policy #government #politics #economy #policies #climatePolicies

"A national government is well placed to ensure acceptance of ...

2024-09-28T21:13:43Z

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"A national government is well placed to ensure acceptance of its own money. […]
"The key to ensuring acceptance of a national currency is in the state’s power to tax. By specifying that taxes and other obligations to the state must be settled in government money, the government creates a need for individuals and businesses to obtain the currency."

Peter Cooper (2015): https://heteconomist.com/money-interpreted-as-an-iou/

#money #reserves #centralBanks #banks #currency #MMT #power #wealth #settlement #transactionsv #taxes

"Britain suffered from a ‘dearth of #money’ problem. ...

2024-09-27T17:44:09Z

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"Britain suffered from a ‘dearth of #money’ problem. [Eventually it set up] a Bank of England (1694) whose issues of credit would be backed by a largely unknown horde of silver. This created the first widely circulating credit money which acted to stimulate more state spending for war. Between 75 percent and 85 percent of annual expenditure went either on current spending on the army, navy and ordnance or to service the debts incurred to pay for earlier wars."
https://capitalaspower.com/2024/09/di-muzio-dow-re-considering-the-origins-of-the-climate-emergency-war-finance-and-the-state/

From the Bruegel thinktank: "In the absence of good public ...

2024-09-26T09:22:39Z

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From the Bruegel thinktank: "In the absence of good public data, special interests find it much easier to lobby for suboptimal approaches. The EU has a substantial problem in this respect, as energy data is not available currently in a timely way or at the level of granularity, reliability and consistency needed for informed policymaking."
https://www.bruegel.org/memo/memo-commissioner-responsible-energy

#energy #offsets #Europe #greenCapitalism #electricity #grid #EU #renewables #growth #spillovers #transition #demand #lobbies #data

A flood event in Powodz #Poland today: via ...

2024-09-15T16:58:52Z

A flood event in Powodz #Poland today:

via [@energisch_](https://troet.cafe/@energisch_ ) Brad Johnson (npub1ha4…vjkw)

#ALT4you #floods #flooding #flood #submersion #Europe #weather #rain

- So if a bunch of corporations just decide to set higher prices, ...

2024-08-31T09:02:11Z

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- So if a bunch of corporations just decide to set higher prices, that's inflation?
- That's right.

A video by Jessica Burbank (via Sui (npub1g5x…nf4y))
Also at: https://www.tiktok.com/@kaburbank/video/7106974872563191083?lang=en

#MMT #inflation #economy #economics #economics101 #money #tutorial #Fed #FedReserve #debt #interestRates #yields #prices #value #markup #CPI #MMTCowboy #beauty #feminity

@npub1pqe…0hlj "An investment arm of the largest private ...

2024-08-26T20:07:55Z

africa group (npub1pqe…0hlj)

"An investment arm of the largest private company in the U.S. — Koch, Inc., formerly known as Koch Industries — is investing in an agricultural business venture that will provide corporations with carbon offsets while pulling local natural resources from almost 7.2 million acres (2.9 million hectares) of land in three West African countries"

https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2024/08/21/koch-invests-in-massive-land-grab-from-west-african-herders/

#carbonOffsets #carbonMarket #agriculture #landGrab #investors #africa #money #meat #exports #water #Koch

Enabling climate acceleration are economic sectors such as land ...

2024-08-15T18:25:59Z

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Enabling climate acceleration are economic sectors such as land use, China coal, Saudi Aramco, Coal India, Gazprom (Russia), National Iranian Oil — in that order.
Since 2021, China coal sends more carbon in the air than NATO equities and Arab states combined. The China coal sector is increasing capacity and already is delivering 12.7 Gt/year.

Study: http://data.yt/projections/2024-results.html

#China #coal #footprint #GHG #CO2 #carbon #economy #production #industry #energy #emissions #globalHeating #climateChange

It is a matter of national sovereignty: “Chinese officials view ...

2024-06-14T10:00:31Z

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It is a matter of national sovereignty:
“Chinese officials view coal as the primary guarantee of energy security,” said Anders Hove, senior research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies cited at https://colombogazette.com/2024/06/05/chinas-coal-surge-threatens-climate-goals-despite-xis-pledge/

#China #coal #footprint #GHG #CO2 #carbon #economy #production #industry #energy #anthropocene #emissions #emitters #expellents #climateChange

Upcoming: "China and ten other countries account for 95% of ...

2024-06-14T09:20:25Z

Upcoming: "China and ten other countries account for 95% of coal power capacity under consideration."

Global Energy Monitor: https://globalenergymonitor.org/report/boom-and-bust-coal-2024/ Energy group (npub16lu…ulne) climate group (npub1pxc…gqpz)

#coal #GHG #carbon #emissions #upcoming #forecasting #trends #anthropocene

"The inflation rate signals instability in the social order. ...

2024-02-18T21:25:38Z

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"The inflation rate signals instability in the social order. That instability, it seems, translates into capitalists’ fears about the future. When the price system is more unstable, capitalists discount present income more steeply."

in "The Ritual of Capitalization" by [@blair_fix](https://mastodon.online/@blair_fix ): https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2021/06/02/the-ritual-of-capitalization/

#rituals #religion #inflation #prices #value #discountRate #finance #privateEquity #acquisition #valuation #capitalization #capitalizing #markup #money #property

"This analysis makes clear that the pat notion of ...

2024-01-21T09:35:05Z

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"This analysis makes clear that the pat notion of “affordable clean #energy” views the world through a narrow keyhole that is blind to innumerable economic, ecological, and social costs. These undesirable #externalities can no longer be ignored. To achieve #sustainability and salvage civilization, society must embark on a planned, cooperative descent from an extreme state of overshoot in just a decade or two."
https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/14/15/4508 npub19f93gccqjfupc5hevkn9m2m8a64cvu3u9yss7yslukseqhqlh64qgyp4yg (npub19f9…p4yg)

#transition #renewables #EnergyTransition #capacity

Here is a thread about climate policy 🧵 "Previous IMF ...

2023-11-30T21:35:13Z

Here is a thread about climate policy 🧵

"Previous IMF interventions may have reduced a country’s ability to invest in transition. Now, the IMF’s response to, or management of, an economic crisis must also consider solutions that are not building the fragilities of the future.

[…] The IMF is facing a steep learning curve."

#E3G: https://www.e3g.org/news/navigating-a-coming-storm-the-imf-and-the-climate-transition/

#climatePolicy #greenTransition #IMF #finance #energyTransition #transitioning #transition #promises #money #Georgieva

Jonathan #Nitzan and Shimshon #Bichler on #pricing: "On the ...

2023-06-18T18:19:07Z

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Jonathan #Nitzan and Shimshon #Bichler on #pricing:
"On the one hand, the profit target and markup built into the price reflect the firm’s power, while, on the other hand, that power, exercised by the high price, serves to restrict industry below its full capacity. The sabotage and the power to inflict it remain concealed, but their consequences are very real."
https://blairfix.github.io/capital_as_power/accumulation-and-sabotage.html#fnref174 #inflation #prices

In "Understanding Modern Money: the Key to Full Employment ...

2023-06-17T17:54:26Z

In "Understanding Modern Money: the Key to Full Employment and Price Stability", in 1998, L. Randall #Wray repeats "that #money should fundamentally be understood as an IOU created by a currency issuer; specifies this through the idea of the state’s promise to accept the #currency it issues back as payment of a tax obligation."
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https://strangematters.coop/history-of-chartalism-modern-monetary-theory-mmt-part-two/ #MMT #transition #inflation economics group (npub13yy…7csh) #economics

"Innovators deciding on how much to invest in R&D will ...

2023-04-08T16:34:11Z

"Innovators deciding on how much to invest in R&D will generally spend less money than is socially optimal, because their decisions typically do not include the possibility that the result will create shoulders for others to stand on. That, too, calls for #subsidies".
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https://gwagner.com/tax-subsidize/ by Gernot Wagner (npub13xz…qgua) #taxes #carbonPricing #greenCapitalism #innovation #EU #inflation #renewables #energy #growth #spillovers #transition

"For the business investor, capital has long been stripped of ...

2023-02-08T19:28:45Z

"For the business investor, capital has long been stripped of any physical characteristics. In the eyes of modern owners […] capital means one thing and one thing only: a pecuniary capitalization of earning capacity. It consists not of the owned factories, mines, aeroplanes, retail establishments or computer hardware and software, but of the present value of #profits expected to be earned by virtue of such #ownership." https://blairfix.github.io/capital_as_power/accumulation-and-sabotage.html#the-absentee-ownership-of-power #economy #capitalism #private #property