"The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate any thing. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It [cannot] anticipat[e] any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us in making available what we are already acquainted with."
— Ada Lovelace, 1843
Overshooting 1.5°C looks likely—but it’s not game over. The key is limiting how far (and how long) we exceed it, then bringing temperatures back down with rapid cuts + carbon removal. Every fraction of a degree still matters.
👉 www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...
#ClimateChange 🌍🌐🧪
Google to tap into gas plant for AI datacenter in sharp turn from climate goals Texas power plant would emit 4.5m tons of carbon dioxide per year, more than that of the entire city of San Francisco
"Asked by Axios last week at an energy conference in Houston about how natural gas jives with the company’s clean energy goals and overall strategy, Google’s head of advanced energy, Michael Terrell, said: “We don’t have anything to say on that.”"
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
It's really easy to look back and attribute your success to things like "I got As in school and I passed that test." Those are salient memories and legible markers. But it can be more true that what actually got you here was the ability to persevere, to disengage from bad pathways, and to recover
The globalisation of trade encouraged by the US over the last 50 years is what's going to bite back with this war: www.theverge.com/science/9103...
Whether or not the ceasefire holds, the US-Israeli war on Iran has laid bare the security case for renewables.
Bill McKibben summarized it nicely:
Oil and Gas = Peril and Poverty
Solar and Wind = Prosperity and Protection
@cape-acme.bsky.social
www.theenergymix.com/fossil-fuel-...
But then does that presuppose Don Jr is Octavius? Because I'm not sure he rises to that intellectual stature
I'm assuming they mean what I had always heard of as a reverse cycle aircon (i.e. both heating & cooling). For other uses it's usually qualified e.g. heat pump hot water system (as opposed to standard electric or gas boiler)
This exchange between Chris Bowen and Liam Bartlett tells us two things:
1. 7News Spotlight is coming back with Seven's anti-renewable energy agenda front and centre; and
2. Liam Bartlett could not get arrested for being a journalist in 2026.
Ex Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications and Speechwriting under Obama👇🏽
You'd think someone on the government's experienced bench would've learned a lesson from 2022 & Morrison's ill-advised same strategy, but nope.
Rather than opening more oil refineries, how about we get more EVs, more charging stations, more renewables, maybe even a super fast train or two.
Let’s stop planning a future that includes fossil fuels.
Funny how the price rise didn't take 6 weeks to show up as petrol stations sold through the cheaper previously purchased fuel #bullshit #auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
"Surely Jim Chalmers cannot argue that we are unable to afford the FBT exemption for EVs but we can afford to hand $4.8 billion a year in fuel subsidies to some of the world's most profitable resource companies." | Monique Ryan satpa.pe/NrhbRKy
This feels weird. A lot of reporting is sounding very much like "how long will this take to get back to normal" when there's no sign in the short term that normality will return at all
It's like 2020 Covid reporting
what! Why was that not a more popular thing, that looks like a phenomenal crossover
The problem with putting this sort of funny stuff into the world is that you just know someone at one of these places is thinking "hey that's an idea..."
"Same Recess Multi" Dan this is unhinged... I love it
Regional woomba intensity across Australia
Trump like a bull in a china shop just obliterating the facade of American greatness is just :chef'skiss:
Most honest reporting in the past few weeks.
“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.”
Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life.
Common sense.
Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
Perfectly fucking normal
It'd be relevant if there was anyone to enforce it, but I guess all it does is erase any credibility if they were to point at anyone else doing the same in future (e.g. China re Taiwan). And given what Israel's already doing with targeting medical workers in Lebanon, it's all out the window
"Five disasters in a single wet season show the climate crisis is here and now in the Northern Territory"
Kirsty Howey
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Good timing with the oil prices rising!
Give this some of your eyeball time, it's so well written: www.blackbirdspyplane.com/p/miuccia-pr...
they literally renamed the entire company after this
Bus in Christchurch with prams hanging off the front
While researching the history of bringing bikes on buses, I just discovered something: in the mid 20th century, buses in Australia and New Zealand had hooks on the front or back for mothers to hang prams off! Bus pram hooks were apparently a unique NZ+Aus phenomenon, found nowhere else in the world.
It’s insane that the world has gone to hell because of the actions of less than 10 dumb psychopathic politicians.
Ten or so people are f**king up things for the entire planet.