Arthur Johannesen

Tweets mostly about danish politics, tax and sustainability

[Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson]

The experiment is over – we know what does and doesn’t work to address climate

If we look at what has been proposed to address global warming, air pollution, and energy security during the past 25 years, only one solution – electrification of all energy sectors and generation of the electricity with wind, solar, geothermal, and hydro sources -- has made an impact. This solution has reduced enough world emissions and technology costs for the @IPCC_CH, to eliminate its worst-case climate scenario. What are the proposed climate solutions that never worked? (1) Fossil gas replacing coal, (2) ethanol replacing gasoline, (3) carbon capture, (4) direct removal of CO2 from the air by equipment, (5) blue hydrogen, 6) nuclear, and (7) geoengineering. We knew these were poor solutions back in 2009, when they were first evaluated. But, it has taken 17 years to overcome lobbyists pushing these techs. On the other hand, electrification of world transport, buildings, and industry and using clean renewables to provide the electricity while growing energy efficiency, also proposed in 2009, has worked, as evidenced by the world growth in electric vehicles, heat pumps, electric furnaces, and clean, renewable electricity generators. All-of-the-above policies, or let’s try everything and hope something works policies, have failed. Given the short time we have, we should never see another IPCC scenario that includes biofuels, carbon capture, direct air capture, nuclear, geoengineering or their derivatives, blue hydrogen, electo-fuels, or sustainable aviation fuels. We know what works. Let's focus on that going forward.

References

Elimination of most extreme IPCC scenario
https://t.co/y2F2mAbCTU

Components of a WindWaterSolar system
https://t.co/viWz8mbv3v

2009 paper evaluating energy technologies
https://t.co/QzjG2d417e

2009 paper proposing to transition the world to 100% WWS
https://t.co/axJJKhHr5n

More details here: "Still No Miracles Needed"
https://t.co/K6Yd0rGJ9e

Video
https://t.co/2U4FMPUC6l

[UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @IIPP_UCL]

💪Absolutely @NYCMayor! Governments need to deliver for working people, & that means making every public dollar count.

It also means investing in the capabilities, skills, & expertise inside government to deliver real long-term public value.
@IIPP_UCL 🔗 https://t.co/jYXD91MIGj

[James Meadway @meadwaj]

Efficiency as a left-wing virtue - as it should be.

Verdant's report advocates for UK government-wide Chief Savings Officer, along the lines Mamdani describes here: to promote effective spending and gaurd against negligent austerity.

Report here: https://t.co/XSj618pmg2

[Gillian Branstetter @GBBranstetter]

Government efficiency but it's dropping corporate contracts rather than kicking single moms off food stamps

[Jostein Hauge @haugejostein]

A new paper shows that neoliberal austerity policies implemented by the World Bank and the IMF in Sub-Saharan Africa in the 1980s and 1990s were associated with a *20% decline in real incomes.*

The destruction caused by these organisations across the Global South is staggering.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

It’s not “the left”.

It’s every major human rights group, including every major Israeli human rights group; multiple UN commissions and rapporteurs; and almost every major genocide scholar, including multiple Israeli historians of the Holocaust.

[Thomas Piketty @PikettyWIL]

New paper on https://t.co/rn0Qpxe626 by @gatonievas & @PaulaDruschke finds that 70% of World Bank and IMF funds are allocated to G7 geopolitically aligned countries.

Bottom line: rich countries pretend to be in favour of democracy but in practice they have built an undemocratic international system to benefit from the collective resources of global public goods, institutionalizing the political inequalities between global South and global North.

🔗https://t.co/pCV0WsBjCi

[Mariana Mazzucato @MazzucatoM]

Outsourcing doesn't just cost more—it hollows out the public sector capabilities needed to deliver for people. When governments invest in their own skills, expertise and institutional knowledge, they can sense change, learn and adapt to serve communities better.

This is what we're measuring with @IIPP_UCL's Public Sector Capabilities Index: the dynamic capabilities governments need to navigate complexity and deliver transformation. [Links below]

[Arthur Johannesen @Havetraktoren]

@tonyannett The biggest chunk of lost voters moved to more green parties (SF and the other red bloc parties).

Some voters moved to more hardline immigration parties like DF.

Socdem moved too far centre-right economically - and on climate, IMO.

[Arthur Johannesen @Havetraktoren]

@tonyannett I don't think this is a bout their econ-vs-immigration policies. That is actually solid to a lot of voters.

They got slapped because they were in a broad centre-right coalition gov., which got hardly anything pressing done (nature, biodiversity, clean water, agriculture).

[Rutger Bregman @rcbregman]

They're not even hiding it anymore. What the SA did for the Nazis (a paramilitary force to intimidate opponents) ICE will do during the midterms.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

It's actually enraging how the World Bank can suddenly change its mind about industrial policy like "Oops, for the past 45 years we systematically prevented you from using the most obvious tool for sovereign development, keeping you stuck in poverty and dependency, lol".

[TroelsDamChristensen @troelsdamchrist]

Her på valgdagen værd at minde om at @klimaraadet i deres seneste rapport konkluderer at vi i DK ikke længere ser ud til at være på vej mod vores 2030 klimamål!
Det må en ny regering rette op på!
Og vi må vælge en regering der vil det!
#dkpol #dkgreen
https://t.co/QrfmuSJqJI

[Dirk Ehnts @DEhnts]

Reminder: the multiplier for military spending is usually assumed to be less than 1.

You can have military Keynesianism, mass unemployment and insolvencies.

Or you can have public investment in peace & prosperity, good jobs and a profitable private sector.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

He’s talking about himself. He’s the one walking around with misinformation in his head.

The official famine-determining body decided it was a famine in Gaza last year.

The consensus of genocide scholars is that it’s a genocide in Gaza.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Quiet. Part. Loud.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Dear UN Member States,

As I prepare to deliver my 8th report to the UN, I reiterate: Israel poses a threat to international peace and security.

I have documented its most egregious crimes. Now the obligation to act, and stop it, sparing innocent lives, rests with you.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Palantir - named in my report for complicity in Israel’s crimes - is a threat to all of us. Palestinians were only the first in line.

[Jostein Hauge @haugejostein]

China’s top battery makers — CATL, BYD and Sungrow — have gained more than $70bn in market capitalisation since the US and Israel attacked Iran.

Everyone wants China’s clean energy products now. So much for “industrial overcapacity.”

[Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 🌏 🦣 @rahmstorf]

Every decision maker in politics, industry etc. should read this. Or better yet the original WMO report it’s about (linked in the article).
And then think very seriously:
What am I doing to stop this?
Is it enough?
How do I want to be remembered?

https://t.co/nXQxccpDZW