ADAM TOOZE

Ankara, which is not a part of UNCLOS of 1982 due to its dispute with Greece over the extent of its EEZ, signed an agreement on maritime delimitation with Libya in December of 2019. This cuts across Eastern Med & sparks opposition in Greece & Cyprus. europeandatajournalism.eu/eng/News/Data-… https://t.co/gcq55Env0v

A big global renewable energy push to hold a 1.5 degree scenario -> cumulative demand could substantially exceed current reserves for cobalt, lithium and nickel and demand could reach over 50% of reserves for indium, silver and tellurium.” @Earthworks earthworks.org/cms/assets/upl… https://t.co/PublUNLOPi

The corona shock to global trade was devastating. But the bounce back in merchandise trade has been V-shaped and far more rapid than after 2008-9. Meijerink et al 2020 voxeu.org/article/covid-… https://t.co/7WuRl2tReN

The US service sector plotted in employment v. Hourly wage space. bloomberg.com/graphics/jobs-… https://t.co/vjnd06uUBc

The support for financial markets by central banks and equity updraft -> capital raising by IPOs running at record levels. @AllyInvest via @SoberLook https://t.co/TuFE6zS0Ah

Charting primary energy consumption across countries 1969-2018. Nice set of graphs from @VisualCap via @SoberLook https://t.co/dIkcjnH5fW

Exxon Mobil Corp. has been planning to increase annual carbon-dioxide emissions by as much as the output of the entire nation of Greece, an analysis of internal documents reviewed by Bloomberg shows bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/0A2G35S5Xy

RT @MaxCRoser: In the UK the number of cases rose rapidly. But the public – and authorities – are only learning this now because these case…

“Just as it is possible to go from any place to any other, so also, starting from a defined and specialized field, can one arrive at a realization of ever-extending relationships traced back to the event of a thread.” Anni Albers 1965 @MuseumModernArt moma.org/calendar/exhib… https://t.co/vC6GVO31Pg

“This blows a soul into your digital infrastructure” How fears of EU falling behind supercomputers in US and Asia led it to revive Extreme Earth climate modeling project in even more radical form, now known as Destination Earth = real time 1km model science.sciencemag.org/content/370/65… https://t.co/mTnJloHJFA

RT @airandspace: Sometimes, history comes in small packages. This is the original arming key of Sputnik, all that remains of the milestone…

RT @william_whyte: I initially thought the ⁦@FT⁩ was running a series on avant-garde theology https://t.co/kwVk2YVV1x

RT @Brad_Setser: I want to reinforce a point made by both @michaelxpettis and @andrewbatson in response to Mansoor Hohi-Uddin's FT article,…

RT @AntonJaegermm: Those two faces of the 1960s: Ali and Redgrave at the 1968 London anti-Vietnam demo, with Richard Branson (!) standing b…

RT @jvtklooster: Monday 12 October 2pm official launch of the Green TLTRO report with presentation and response from ECB @isabelsabine and…

RT @joesmith323: @adam_tooze The earth has about 500 Million square kilometers. They will probably need ten vertical slices and then ten (a…

Destination Earth (sic): EU is finalizing plans for 1 km resolution “digital twin” of planet Earth to simulate the atmosphere, ocean, ice, and land with unrivaled precision, providing forecasts of floods, droughts, and fires from days to years in advance. science.sciencemag.org/content/370/65… https://t.co/jg6FzdxgCT

Fire seasons are getting worse: "Is this a “wicked” problem so entangled with complexities that solutions are impossible? We think not. We need to unbundle “fire” in all its shape-shifting avatars into manageable pieces.” Covington & @StephenJPyne science.sciencemag.org/content/370/65… https://t.co/AKdM7z4Pdj

"China overinvested in coal power: Here’s why.” Important paper emphasizing effect of decentralizing power station approval in Nov 2014 -> provinces the size of European states embarked on huge building spree. Coal producers led way. Ren et al (2019) voxeu.org/article/china-… https://t.co/AvDedF27nO

BP and Shell both notionally declare Scope 3 emissions. BP counts its 20% holding in Rosneft on its accounts but not its emissions & Rosneft’s own carbo disclosure is incomplete. Important corrective from @davidfickling @hecharts bloomberg.com/graphics/2020-… https://t.co/2lMv27NJ24

Gongshan New Village: showcase for “village consolidation” in Shandong where 20% of 70k villages are to disappear by end of 2020. The rationale is efficiency, village services, land use etc. The reality on ground is brutal for uprooted villagers. economist.com/china/2020/10/… https://t.co/CcdpJQWOqx

For five years the Safer, a tanker built in 1976, has been slowly corroding in the ultra-salty Red Sea, off coast of Yemen. A time-bomb waiting to go off. Loaded with 4 times the oil in Exxon Valdez. Now there are reports of a slick spreading. economist.com/middle-east-an… https://t.co/46c7M93gyE

Coal companies are responsible for a lot of CO2 emissions, but those producing iron ore for steel production are ultimately responsible for more emissions. @davidfickling @hecharts crunch the numbers. bloomberg.com/graphics/2020-… https://t.co/ALX3imDn4f

RT @StuartHumphryes: France during The Great War, 105 years ago. I've restored this autochrome taken in 1915 by Léon Gimpel of a boy named…

RT @StuartHumphryes: You may have seen this remarkable man before, but this is the first time I've tried restoring his portrait: It is Conr…

RT @StuartHumphryes: Of all the decades of photos I've restored, the 1850s look the most sensational, bursting with character! When I get m…

RT @StuartHumphryes: Faces from History (in colour) – Here are 4 of my autochrome Babelisations of famous historical notaries. These 4 were…

RT @fi_lor: 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, East and West are still divided by different lightbulbs in street lights https://t.…

"One is a small, surprisingly successful and relatively democratic country bullied by a larger, dictatorial neighbour which considers it to be part of its own territory. The other is Taiwan.” On Taiwan-Somaliland mutual recognition. economist.com/middle-east-an… https://t.co/38z0OWdF7Y

RT @doctorow: Dutch resistance members celebrate at the moment they heard of Adolf Hitler’s death over the radio, May 1945. (Colorized) htt…

Corporate climate disclosure is inconsistent and manipuative -> @davidfickling @hecharts have come up with a basic benchmarking technique to capture Scope 3 emissions. bloomberg.com/graphics/2020-… https://t.co/QC0wJUjBMZ

We sometimes talk loosely about German “dominance” in EU. In 2020 its share of EU GDP was the same as that of California & New York combined in GDP of USA. Very important but NOT the whole shebang. economist.com/europe/2020/10… https://t.co/sQh1ZGtKkv

Suburban street in Nagorno-Karabakh coming under fire from cluster ammunition. Astonishing transformation in a matter of seconds. twitter.com/MarQs__/status…

In UK all children in year 1 of school—aged 5-6—are doing better in phonics tests. Those who are entitled to free school meals because of their parents’ poverty have advanced more. Is it because mothers across board are investing more time in kids? economist.com/international/… https://t.co/sHHMMjak60

RT @doctorow: “Office of the future”, 1949. danismm.tumblr.com/post/631009675… https://t.co/m2v1zRxdjr

China’s national car fleet quadrupled in size in past decade to 260 million cars, closing in fast on the U.S.’s 280 m. The average age of China’s fleet is -> 6 years when cars start to need significant repairs -> $534bn after market beckons. @Trefor1 wsj.com/articles/aliba… https://t.co/jvEPCeAWm8