Willem Huiskamp
@willemh.bsky.social
Oceanography and paleoclimate scientist at @pik-potsdam.bsky.social |formerly @ccrc.bsky.social | Loves photography | AI hater
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Willem Huiskamp
@willemh.bsky.social
· Nov 29
I've created a starterpack for my colleagues here at PIK. If you want to follow us and hear about the work we do, look no further!
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Trillion dollar company, btw
October 8, 2026 at 9:09 PM
Trillion dollar company, btw
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Quoted in the Guardian today on the technical hopium that, in my experience, has become widespread among many, usually senior, climate experts.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Scientists who put faith in technology less likely to take climate action
‘Techno-optimism’ may lead to reliance on unproven solutions at expense of societal changes needed
www.theguardian.com
October 7, 2026 at 12:51 PM
Quoted in the Guardian today on the technical hopium that, in my experience, has become widespread among many, usually senior, climate experts.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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“accompanying faith in future technological salvation provides another crutch: a way of postponing difficult choices today by placing hope in solutions that may arrive tomorrow” - @kevinclimate.bsky.social
Scientists who put faith in technology less likely to take climate action
‘Techno-optimism’ may lead to reliance on unproven solutions at expense of societal changes needed
www.theguardian.com
October 8, 2026 at 5:18 PM
“accompanying faith in future technological salvation provides another crutch: a way of postponing difficult choices today by placing hope in solutions that may arrive tomorrow” - @kevinclimate.bsky.social
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What a day!
Our clients Wendy and Tony have just won the first ever climate case to be heard by Australia’s highest court!
Such a privilege to have been able to represent them in this landmark case, which will reverberate around the world.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Our clients Wendy and Tony have just won the first ever climate case to be heard by Australia’s highest court!
Such a privilege to have been able to represent them in this landmark case, which will reverberate around the world.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Hunter Valley community group wins landmark high court climate change case over Mount Pleasant coalmine
Ruling on Mount Pleasant coalmine shows ‘we cannot continue to dig up coal … and pretend the consequences have nothing to do with us’, group says
www.theguardian.com
October 7, 2026 at 7:27 AM
What a day!
Our clients Wendy and Tony have just won the first ever climate case to be heard by Australia’s highest court!
Such a privilege to have been able to represent them in this landmark case, which will reverberate around the world.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Our clients Wendy and Tony have just won the first ever climate case to be heard by Australia’s highest court!
Such a privilege to have been able to represent them in this landmark case, which will reverberate around the world.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Great, now sue them all into oblivion
Hot news for the sea lion in my comments bothering everyone about how training data is fair use
www.courthousenews.com/ai-training-...
www.courthousenews.com/ai-training-...
AI training of copyrighted material not fair use: Third Circuit
Using someone else's "creative spark" to start a competing business runs afoul of copyright law, the panel found.
www.courthousenews.com
October 6, 2026 at 12:45 PM
Great, now sue them all into oblivion
Jail. Why are people not in jail.
October 6, 2026 at 11:31 AM
Jail. Why are people not in jail.
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I spent the weekend with cookers from Nth NSW and let me tell you those yoga mums and K micro dosing tradies are gonna vote for One Nation while still believing they’re spiritual progressives #auspol
October 6, 2026 at 2:46 AM
I spent the weekend with cookers from Nth NSW and let me tell you those yoga mums and K micro dosing tradies are gonna vote for One Nation while still believing they’re spiritual progressives #auspol
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This right here. The whole idea behind this software is to hide the costs - financial, environmental, moral.
People get stunned like animals in the night if you make those real
People get stunned like animals in the night if you make those real
There is a bleak sort of pleasure in telling people who bring up AI in casual conversation, “Actually, I’m one of the authors AI stole from. Not an exaggeration. The judge ordered them to send me a check.” It hits them different when it’s a real person saying it.
October 6, 2026 at 6:39 AM
This right here. The whole idea behind this software is to hide the costs - financial, environmental, moral.
People get stunned like animals in the night if you make those real
People get stunned like animals in the night if you make those real
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never the wrong time for this classic
October 5, 2026 at 5:30 PM
never the wrong time for this classic
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I loathe AI and will personally never use it, in my work or otherwise. Even if it wasn't hideous in almost every way, why would I cede ground to something with precisely zero creative spirit? rick-morton.ghost.io/the-boast-in...
The Boast in the Machine
While browsing the Australian Government's contract notices portal AusTender a few days ago – regular readers of this august publication will know that this is one of my principal meditative outlets –...
rick-morton.ghost.io
October 5, 2026 at 1:39 AM
I loathe AI and will personally never use it, in my work or otherwise. Even if it wasn't hideous in almost every way, why would I cede ground to something with precisely zero creative spirit? rick-morton.ghost.io/the-boast-in...
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The Iran war is speeding up the shift away from fossil fuels.
That's one reason I'm hopeful about electrification. I told @news.abc.net.au why, in a piece alongside Fatih Birol @iea.org and António Guterres. 🧵
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
That's one reason I'm hopeful about electrification. I told @news.abc.net.au why, in a piece alongside Fatih Birol @iea.org and António Guterres. 🧵
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
Unintended consequences of war in Iran are helping the climate
The Iran war is turbocharging global electrification. But experts say the global grid needs to roughly double in size, as infrastructure bottlenecks prevent a clean energy revolution.
www.abc.net.au
October 5, 2026 at 7:25 AM
The Iran war is speeding up the shift away from fossil fuels.
That's one reason I'm hopeful about electrification. I told @news.abc.net.au why, in a piece alongside Fatih Birol @iea.org and António Guterres. 🧵
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
That's one reason I'm hopeful about electrification. I told @news.abc.net.au why, in a piece alongside Fatih Birol @iea.org and António Guterres. 🧵
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
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jail
Sam Altman to Decoded: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AI
politi.co/4rJE8dI
politi.co/4rJE8dI
Sam Altman to Decoded: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AI
politi.co/4rJE8dI
Sam Altman to Decoded: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AI
politi.co/4rJE8dI
www.politico.com
October 5, 2026 at 2:02 AM
jail
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Going to be honest this might be my favourite headline of the AI bubble
NEW: People who chug their own piss have emerged as MAJOR supporters of AI
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
People Who Drink Their Own Pee Are Obsessed With AI, Using It to Reassure Themselves That It's a Miraculous Cure-All
Urine therapy devotees are sharing ways to break past AI guardrails in order to brainstorm ways to use pee as medicine.
futurism.com
October 1, 2026 at 1:11 AM
Going to be honest this might be my favourite headline of the AI bubble
This has been an open secret in Australia for some time, with the federal government going to great lengths to *appear* as if they have effective climate policy, while rubber stamping mine after mine. It's disgraceful, and they are not held to account for it.
The planning contradiction is impressively neat: it accepts that 809Mt of GHG emissions will worsen global warming. It says leaving the coal in the ground would make a difference
…then approves the mine anyway.
Climate science only matters up until the decision.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
…then approves the mine anyway.
Climate science only matters up until the decision.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The green light for the largest coalmine in NSW history is shocking proof that our governance systems are betraying Australians | Georgina Woods
There is no greater treachery than this failure to face up to the climate crisis. How can we now fend off despair?
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2026 at 10:24 PM
This has been an open secret in Australia for some time, with the federal government going to great lengths to *appear* as if they have effective climate policy, while rubber stamping mine after mine. It's disgraceful, and they are not held to account for it.
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Not only are the flat earthers wrong, they are getting wronger by the day.
Breaking news: The Earth is getting rounder
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
![INBOX:
Earth’s poles are rising by 0.5 to 1 millimeters per year, slowly un-squashing our planet’s slightly flattened, jelly-donut-like shape, according to a new study. Linking satellite measurements of changing altitude across Earth’s surface from 1997 to 2015 to the planet’s shape, researchers found that the rounding effect also seems to be accelerating over time, with the poles rising an extra 0.4 millimeters per year faster every decade. Though our planet seems solid, the Earth’s interior acts more like an extremely slow-flowing liquid, warping over time under forces like the weight of ice sheets and oceans. Currently, our planet bulges out a little around the equator. But as ice sheets melt and reduce the force acting on the Earth at the poles, the equator is gradually cinching in as the poles push upwards, molding our planet into a more spherical shape. [JGR Solid Earth study]
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2026JB034224](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4txx6cwpxn5wbtalgjnkpu4w/bafkreib2npq3yvdm5e2eu35edj566ldyizubt2sw2jmctduxwcnvwb5y6i)
October 1, 2026 at 11:04 PM
Not only are the flat earthers wrong, they are getting wronger by the day.
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🌊 Hiring a postdoc in PO at UMiami @miamirosenstiel.bsky.social & UMaine! Study the AMOC across the RAPID-MOCHA & OSNAP arrays using models, moorings, SWOT & ML. Shape your own project, join cruises 🚢 Rolling review, apply early!
umiami.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UMCareerStaf...
#AMOC #OSNAP #RAPID
umiami.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UMCareerStaf...
#AMOC #OSNAP #RAPID
October 1, 2026 at 9:12 PM
🌊 Hiring a postdoc in PO at UMiami @miamirosenstiel.bsky.social & UMaine! Study the AMOC across the RAPID-MOCHA & OSNAP arrays using models, moorings, SWOT & ML. Shape your own project, join cruises 🚢 Rolling review, apply early!
umiami.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UMCareerStaf...
#AMOC #OSNAP #RAPID
umiami.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UMCareerStaf...
#AMOC #OSNAP #RAPID
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What became of the Anthropocene epoch? In 2024, more than a decade of evidence and serious procedural objections were met with a 2.5 page press statement. Our new commentary in Earth's Future asks for the record to be released and an independent review of the process.
doi.org/10.1029/2025EF007638
doi.org/10.1029/2025EF007638
Science or Strategy? The Rejection of the Anthropocene Epoch Demands Transparency
The Anthropocene Working Group’s case cannot be meaningfully evaluated until the grounds for its rejection are fully transparent
Questions remain over voter eligibility, quorum, document access, ...
doi.org
October 1, 2026 at 2:20 PM
What became of the Anthropocene epoch? In 2024, more than a decade of evidence and serious procedural objections were met with a 2.5 page press statement. Our new commentary in Earth's Future asks for the record to be released and an independent review of the process.
doi.org/10.1029/2025EF007638
doi.org/10.1029/2025EF007638
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"AI will emit six times as much CO2 in 2030 as in 2025, according to a study by a group of experts. "
So where are all these revolutionary solutions to the climate crisis AI is supposed to bring us? So far as I can tell, they're not even trying.
So where are all these revolutionary solutions to the climate crisis AI is supposed to bring us? So far as I can tell, they're not even trying.
L’IA émettra six fois plus de CO₂ en 2030 qu’en 2025, selon l’étude d’un collectif d’experts
L’IA émettra six fois plus de CO₂ en 2030 qu’en 2025, selon l’étude d’un collectif d’experts
Les émissions globales de gaz à effet de serre du secteur de l’intelligence artificielle pourraient atteindre un niveau inquiétant à la fin de la décennie, d’après une étude publiée mercredi par le collectif français Green IT. Sans compter les dommages causés aux milieux aquatiques et la pollution aux particules fines.
www.lemonde.fr
September 30, 2026 at 10:17 AM
"AI will emit six times as much CO2 in 2030 as in 2025, according to a study by a group of experts. "
So where are all these revolutionary solutions to the climate crisis AI is supposed to bring us? So far as I can tell, they're not even trying.
So where are all these revolutionary solutions to the climate crisis AI is supposed to bring us? So far as I can tell, they're not even trying.
One Nation, huh? Obligatory...
September 29, 2026 at 11:58 AM
One Nation, huh? Obligatory...
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We scream into the void. We stare blankly into the abyss. We post into the ether
Remind me, do we scream into the void or the abyss
September 29, 2026 at 1:54 AM
We scream into the void. We stare blankly into the abyss. We post into the ether
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as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind
September 29, 2026 at 6:13 AM
as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind
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There's a real thing on Insta and Threads about the ongoing intense debate around personal vs corporate vs systemic responsibility when fighting, eg, climate or against GenAI.
But GenAI is so unique: it barely existed 3 years ago; we all lived our lives normally. Yet heavy use still gets excused?
But GenAI is so unique: it barely existed 3 years ago; we all lived our lives normally. Yet heavy use still gets excused?
September 29, 2026 at 7:35 AM
There's a real thing on Insta and Threads about the ongoing intense debate around personal vs corporate vs systemic responsibility when fighting, eg, climate or against GenAI.
But GenAI is so unique: it barely existed 3 years ago; we all lived our lives normally. Yet heavy use still gets excused?
But GenAI is so unique: it barely existed 3 years ago; we all lived our lives normally. Yet heavy use still gets excused?
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Did you know that producing one pound of beef is 25-50x worse for climate change than burning a pound of coal?
In fact, it’s one of the most polluting things we can consume.
And grass-fed beef is usually *even worse* — thanks to its much higher land use and methane emissions.
In fact, it’s one of the most polluting things we can consume.
And grass-fed beef is usually *even worse* — thanks to its much higher land use and methane emissions.
September 25, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Did you know that producing one pound of beef is 25-50x worse for climate change than burning a pound of coal?
In fact, it’s one of the most polluting things we can consume.
And grass-fed beef is usually *even worse* — thanks to its much higher land use and methane emissions.
In fact, it’s one of the most polluting things we can consume.
And grass-fed beef is usually *even worse* — thanks to its much higher land use and methane emissions.
Australia: [makes everything way worse]
Angus Taylor: Well, our work here is done 😎
Angus Taylor: Well, our work here is done 😎
The best leader the Liberals could come up with
Angus Taylor pledges to repeal swathe of climate policies, saying ‘Australia has done its bit’
Several measures were previously introduced or supported by Coalition, prompting claim Liberals and Nationals would ‘let climate change rip’
www.theguardian.com
September 23, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Australia: [makes everything way worse]
Angus Taylor: Well, our work here is done 😎
Angus Taylor: Well, our work here is done 😎