Lars Pedersen

AI agents are not conscious. museums, on the other hand

Odd, how these men of statistics and science are so unfamiliar with the theories of Charles Darwin.

#Denmark built so much wind that some blustery hours the turbines out-produce what the whole country is using. When that happens, the extra power doesn’t sit idle. It moves through Denmark’s links into the wider European network and heads to neighbors like Germany, Norway, Sweden. #ActOnClimate

Trump is promising to boost the U.S. economy by making it harder for Americans to trade with the rest of the world. He is also promising to destroy Iran's economy by making it harder for Iranians to trade with the rest of the world.

If you are serious about sending people to Mars you talk more about radiation research than rockets

97% of all new private cars sold in Denmark in July were electric according to Mobility Denmark. Bilstatistik.dk.

If you hoard those cables for long enough …

Over on the Hellsite, two-bit climate disinformation enthusiast Matthew Wielicki has been caught copy-pasting fake references from ChatGPT

Lack of planning will also become lack of public parks, trees along streets and playgrounds. The picture here does not look promising in an age of climate change www.economist.com/middle-east-...

Quite soon a third of all US debt will have been generated under Trump. 28.5% approx. at the moment.

World class performance by @thecure.com in Dublin 26 June 2026

🚨 BIG NEWS: The largest wind project in the U.S. just came online in New Mexico. The SunZia Wind Project features 916 turbines that will power homes in Arizona and California via a high-voltage transmission line. This is a huge victory for our environment and lower costs!

🔥 Green heron using a piece of bread to lure fish

"France passed a single law and instantly unlocked 11 gigawatts of #solarenergy — without using new land. In 2023, France's government mandated solar canopies over all car parks larger than 80 spaces. The scale was enormous: There are 400,000 parking areas across France #ActOnClimate #Renewables

Too many people still confuse Software Engineering with writing code. Code is the artifact. Software Engineering is understanding the problem, making tradeoffs, designing the system, reducing complexity, and deciding what shouldn't be built. No amount of 'vibe coding' can help you with this.

Communities across Ireland come together to celebrate the launch of An Taisce's National Spring Clean And for those still looking to get involved, registrations will remain open for the remainder of the month, so volunteers can sign up at NationalSpringClean.org www.antaisce.org/news/communi...

It is time to eradicate AI from all educational environments. Find another way. Maybe teach kids about AI like when we learned about drugs in middle school. “The risks of AI outweigh the benefits” - new report about AI in elementary schools.

Professor Heiko Balzter said, "This is a critical wake-up call for global climate policy. If Africa's forests are no longer absorbing carbon, it means other regions and the world as a whole will need to cut greenhouse gas emissions even more deeply to stay within the 2°C goal of the Paris Agreement”

ESB-Ørsted venture wins wind farm contract

In Brazil's coffee-producing areas, more than 42,000 square miles of forest have disappeared over about two decades, says Coffee Watch. Deforestation leads to drought, which harms crop yields.

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation—the ocean system that stabilizes Earth’s climate—is weakening as global warming melts Greenland and freshens the seas. Its collapse could flood coasts and trigger mass migration. Civilization hangs in the balance. open.substack.com/pub/theintel...

This seems like a good fact to share with your friends today: The 365 day running average for global surface temperature is once again less than 8 standard deviations above the 1941-1970 average. That's about 1-in-1.125 quadrillion by chance alone.

Bill Clinton proves Marco Rubio is lying, right here, clear as day: WE forced Ukraine to give up their nukes, cruise missiles, and strategic bombers: WE promised to protect Ukraine from Russia; WE made Ukraine vulnerable. So yeah, THIS IS OUR WAR.

eventually he's just going to bulldoze the White House and move everything to Mar-a-Lago so he's never too far from the omelette bar and the tacky bathroom with all our secrets in the shower

Forests, our planet's lungs, are suffocated by plastic pollution. The good news? We can still #BeatPlasticPollution and the solutions are within reach. Ahead of #WorldEnvironmentDay, join the global movement. www.worldenvironmentday.global

Congrats to all our friends in Northern Ireland on another important milestone for Corncrake conservation. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Proud of the garden I created from nothing 6-8yrs ago. Been 100% neglected (no watering, pruning etc) for 3+ yrs. If you plant drought tolerant, location suited flora, you don’t need large amounts of work once established. All desperately need a prune/tidy up… soon hopefully💜😊

Hope for Killarney National Park - though it’s bound to look worse before it gets better Decades-long battle to clear rhododendron in Killarney www.rte.ie/news/munster...

The system of cataloging software vulnerabilities used worldwide, by basically every security professional, is just going away huh?? Gonna be honest, seems bad

More in No, Other People: New poll: “America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.” • 80% of Americans agree • 20% disagree “I would be better off if I worked in a factory.” • 25% of Americans agree • 73% disagree • 2% currently work in a factory

Remember this? The military gets it. Shame on Donald Trump and JD Vance for continuing to disparage our men and women in uniform.

Out of these, which would you choose first to destroy and re-wild? 1️⃣ 1 acre solar/wind farm 2️⃣ 1 acre cow farm (for milking or meat) 3️⃣ 1 acre of ubran sprawl (parking, roads, shops) 4️⃣ 1 acre of oil wells / coal / natural gas 📊 Show results

BREAKING: New Nasal Spray Bird Flu Vaccine Could Help Protect Us In A Future Pandemic Researchers have created an H5N1 avian influenza, or bird flu, vaccine that can be administered as a nasal spray.

I kind of want to go

👀 A fascinating insight to how changes in #Antarctic sea ice have effects elsewhere in the world: 🕳️ Lack of usual sea ice in Ross Sea ➕ 🌪️ hurricane-strength winds 🟰 🌊 strong, long-period swell on the southern NSW coast more than 4000km away! ▶️ www.swellnet.com/news/swellne...

as a journalist whose real passion is the history of science and technology, who has written hundreds of thousands of words on the subject: this, absolutely this

The things we find. #beachcombing

Red Squirrel having a bit of a scratch captured by Michael Allen. #photooftheday #wildlife #nature

Scientific consensus: "artificial intelligence (AI) can exacerbate bias and discrimination in society... governments need to enact appropriate guardrails and governance in order to identify and mitigate these harms." Today I joined 100 other scientific researchers in reinforcing this basic fact.

BREAKING: Experts Warn Public to Prepare for Potential Bird Flu Pandemic "The H5N1 virus has crossed species barriers, adapting to mammalian hosts, including dairy cattle, leading to widespread exposure and sporadic human infections."

Ezra Klein is wrong about AGI: garymarcus.substack.com/p/ezra-klein...

Trivia question -- what's mostly yellow with a large stripe of red across it? Don't tell me. Don't tell me. ...

Our new @adriftlab.bsky.social paper is out, lead by @alixdejersey.bsky.social showing the insidious impacts of plastics on seemingly health birds (1/5) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Analysis estimates that 4% - 14% of the world’s staple crops of wheat, rice & maize is being lost due to impact of microplastics Crop losses could be of a similar scale to those caused by the climate crisis in recent decades www.theguardian.com/environment/...