Jaakko Haikonen
Climate, energy and all things interesting. Just transition and what it means for workers.
Living in Puotila, Helsinki with wife and three kids. 🇫🇮🇩🇪🇪🇺(🇺🇸 😢)
Working: www.sttk.fi/en
- Reposted by Jaakko HaikonenLate billionaire climate denial funder & oil businessman David Koch making multiple appearances in the files, lots through his apparent friendship w/ publicist Peggy Siegal, who had befriended & helped Epstein reenter society. Epstein in 2015: "where are you? I hope David Koch got your message"
- Reposted by Jaakko HaikonenWoody Allen and climate denier Bjorn Lomborg meet up with Jeffrey Epstein... No, it's not the beginning of a joke.
- This one is interesting... www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
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- Hankkikaa ihmiset kiinteä sähkösopimus. Ei siksi, että se olisi halvempi, vaan siksi että se rauhoittaisi julkista keskustelua sähköntuotannosta.
- Ajattelin tänään valmistaa vaimolle retkikeittimellä romanttisen illallisen nautittavaksi kynttilänvalossa. #romantiikka #sähkönhinta
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- Reposted by Jaakko HaikonenNext time someone asks you about energy and land use, maybe remind them that the ~35 million acres that currently grow corn for ethanol in the US could produce ~15 PWh per year of electricity from solar photovoltaics. That's ~3.5 times more than *total annual generation from all US power plants*.
- Oliko se Euroopan heikoin talouskasvukin ulkomaalaisten syy?
- Meillä tuli valtaan erittäin oikeistolainen hallitus jolta odotettiin kovia tuloksia talouden suhteen. Kun työttömyys on Euroopan suurinta ja kasvu Euroopan heikointa, syylliseksi löytyy maahanmuuttajat. The optics are not good, sanoisi joku. Mutta katsotaan miten kevät etenee.
- What is this? A Kristallnacht? This is what the nazis did to jews.
- Suomen uusi ulkopoliittinen linja näyttää olevan yllätetyksi tuleminen. Ensin yllätti Venäjä, sitten USA. Ja aina tulee kiire ja vaihtoehdot kaventuvat. www.hs.fi/politiikka/a...
- This is always the case when authoritarian regime arises. There are those who oppose, those who support and those who accommodate. Last one is the biggest group. This Week Has Revealed 3 Types of Americans www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/o...
- This is extremely important and insightful discussion about the balance between USA, China and EU, and where we are heading. Thank you @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social and @adamtooze.bsky.social 🙏🏼 podcasts.apple.com/fi/podcast/t...
- Reposted by Jaakko HaikonenHannah Arendt did not mince words, did she? 'Totalitarianism replaces all first-rate talents with crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.' From "The Origins of Totalitarianism" (1951)
- Reposted by Jaakko Haikonen„Insgesamt seien die russischen Angriffe auf Energieinfrastruktur in der Ukraine ganz klar in mehrfacher Hinsicht völkerrechtswidrig. (…) Die verantwortlichen Politiker und Militärs in Russland begehen Kriegsverbrechen, indem sie solche Angriffe befehlen.”
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- Reposted by Jaakko HaikonenProud to have been one of the 9,200 people who submitted that name to the contest. Lol blockclubchicago.org/2026/01/28/a...
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- Reposted by Jaakko HaikonenExclusive: The Trump administration has held covert meetings with fringe separatists from the oil-rich Canadian province as a rift deepens between Washington and Ottawa. ft.trib.al/zYlleOJ
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- Kuten Davosista kuulimme, Venäjän lisäksi nyt myös USA haastaa Euroopan vihreän siirtymän. Kansalaisten tuki ja oikeudenmukainen siirtymä ovat elintärkeitä vihreän siirtymän poliittisen tuen varmistamiseksi. Aiheesta lisää blogissani ja ensi viikon talousseminaarissamme. www.sttk.fi/2026/01/28/g...
- Reposted by Jaakko HaikonenFossil fuels are simply not reliable in winter weather.
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- Polarisaatio kiihtyy. Toiset kuristaa kuoliaaksi, toisia kuristetaan kuoliaaksi. Ota tässä sitten kantaa.
- We will propably soon hear more talk about how renewables drive electricity prices up. Just to note.
- Reposted by Jaakko HaikonenIn 2000 95% of Poland's electricity was from coal. Today it is 51%. Total coal generation in TWh dropped by 36%. Source is new @ember-energy.org European Electricity Review.
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- ”After the past three weeks of brutality in Minneapolis, it should no longer be possible to say that the Trump administration seeks merely to govern this nation. It seeks to reduce us all to a state of constant fear.” State Terror Has Arrived www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...
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- These rants by old men is exactly why Europe needs to speed up Green transition away from fossil energy. I think they also prove that we are succeeding. #davos
- Näin. Carney ei puhu mistään ”rikkinäisistä puhelimista” tai ”väärinymmärryksistä”, vaan toteaa maailman ja USAn aseman muuttuneen täysin. Eri hyvin eri linja kuin Suomessa. Niin on toki maan asemakin. Mielenkiintoista nähdä mihin ryhmiin Euroopan maat asemoituvat ja miten toimitaan jatkossa.
- 🇨🇦PM Carney just schooled our cowardly European leaders at #Davos. This speech was clearly aimed at them: "We must actively take on the world as it is, not wait around for a world we wish to be." "What does it mean for middle powers to live the truth? First it means naming reality..." (🧵1/6)
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- Our (Finland’s) president Alexander Stubb giving an optimistic view on world affairs, yet with caveats. Good insights specially on how Europe should prepare itself military and politically, as world is changing. Thank you, again @gideonrachman.bsky.social #davos podcasts.apple.com/fi/podcast/t...
- Reposted by Jaakko HaikonenIt’s come to this: “Catholic members of the US armed forces could in good conscience consider disobeying orders to attack Greenland if such orders were issued, according to Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the bishop responsible for the pastoral care of US military personnel.”
- China will win this race and now it seems that Europe should side with them. Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
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- She is smarter than the US Congress combined. There are things that too many Americans just can’t understand.
- ”The decades-long rise in the acceptance of gay people in the United States peaked around 2020 and has sharply reversed since then.” Americans Are Turning Against Gay People www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
- Reposted by Jaakko HaikonenMay I once again not-at-all-humbly reiterate what I said back in 2022: the centrist brain-worm that "energy security" comes from crawling from dependence on one fossil fuel supplier to another is absolute bullshit: Europe could and should have been reducing gas reliance faster for the past 3 years
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- Eikö Risto E.J. Penttilä juuri kehunut tuota Italian Melonia? Eikö se EJ koskaan opi?
- What Americans should understand by now is that the more extreme your foreign policy gets, the more extreme your domestic policy gets. And vice versa. You will end up loosing your own freedom. You need to stop this vicious cycle, now.
- If the U.S. military is given direct orders to seize Greenland—pull down another nation’s flag, and then claim the ground in the name of the United States—every senior commander has a moral obligation to refuse to accept or support such a command. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
- Kuuluukohan tämä siihen 80-90%iin mitä Trump tekee Nallen mukaan oikein? www.hs.fi/talous/art-2...
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- Mutta hei, wokelle saatiin loppu.
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- Chinese Universities Surge in Global Rankings as U.S. Schools Slip www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...
- Reposted by Jaakko Haikonen"China makes more than 40% of the world's passenger cars, up from 3,5% in 2000"😅 📈📈📈 #alwaysbecharging
- Do you like charts? Oh yes you do. I've just published hundreds of them, as I do every year. www.nathanielbullard.com/presentations
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- Full support with Greenland and Denmark. Danes are brilliant Scandinavians, Europeans and allies, whose good influence in world clearly outweight their size. Something many of us should look up to! 🇫🇮 🤝 🇩🇰 #denmark #greenland
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The global warming trend continued in 2025. Each of the past 11 years (2015–2025) has been among the 11 warmest on record. Explore more data from #CopernicusClimate in the Global Climate Highlights 2025. #GCH2025 🔗 climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima... @ecmwf.int - Reposted by Jaakko Haikonen[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Jaakko HaikonenSix federal prosecutors in Minnesota resigned over the Justice Department’s push to investigate the widow of Renee Good, the woman killed by an ICE agent, and the department’s reluctance to investigate the shooter, according those with knowledge of their decision. nyti.ms/4qUl36Z
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- Reposted by Jaakko HaikonenNEW: Top DOJ officials quit after their division refused to probe Minnesota ICE shooting - At least four leaders of the Civil Rights Division resigned because the section's head, Harmeet Dhillon, decided not to investigate shooting of Renee Good. www.ms.now/news/doj-civ...
- Reposted by Jaakko Haikonen(AP) - China says it has reached an agreement with the EU on steps toward resolving their dispute over electric vehicle imports. @apnews.com
- Masha Gessen has seen things coming to happen lot earlier than most commentators. Also her insights from Russia help to explain what is happening in the US (even if the countries are very different). This is very important discussion with @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/fi/podcast/t...
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- Reposted by Jaakko Haikonen“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”
- Reposted by Jaakko HaikonenThe transformation of ICE into a type of national police force, backed, in some cases, by soldiers from the National Guard, has been covered as immigration story—but these forces are reshaping democracy for all of us. Listen to 'Autocracy in America' here: www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...
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