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‘If you want to talk about wasteful government spending, the $12 billion a year going to well-off people sending their kids to private schools would be a good start.’ www.canberratimes.com.au/story/922838...
source: https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/lanina/enso_evolution-status-fcsts-web.pdf
NOAA's latest update on state of El Niño, just 3 hours old.
Summary:
1. We are in neutral conditions and will likely remain that way for several months.
2. An El Niño is likely (61% chance) to emerge, but magnitude is still quite uncertain as we have not crossed spring predictability barrier.
Excited to attend the ribbon-cutting for the next segment of California’s solar canal initiative later this month in Hickman. Imagine generating solar power over 4,000 miles or so canals across the state. A lot of Sierra and Colorado River water to save via avoided evaporation.
Agrivoltaica sobre olivo variedad Arroniz, en la localidad de Allo (Navarra)
Agrivoltaics are the answer to providing low cost energy, high quality food and helping biodiversity. All round good news.
www.pv-magazine.com/2026/04/16/a...
'SE Asia braces for scorching heat, water crisis, “Godzilla” El Niño looms…
For SE Asia, El Niño is not a distant climate curiosity—it is a direct threat to food security, water supply, & health. …already experiencing above-normal temps March-May 2026'
www.thesoutheastasiadesk.com/p/southeast-...
This is a well-documented pattern in medical research and reflects systemic gender bias in pain assessment and treatment.👇
Still just mind-boggled over this:
"Microsoft’s emissions could surge 44% due to just one West Virginia data center that will run entirely on natural gas."
📢 Call for Papers | Special Issue in Agribusiness
𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻-𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗴𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀
This special issue welcomes original empirical and theoretical research, review articles, and perspective pieces.
Details can be found at:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
Wouldn't it be cool to invest trillions of dollars into a technology that would actually make society better?
Maybe we can call it “HI” — Human Intelligence.
Instead of “data centers”, we could fund “schools”.
Instead of *stealing* art, literature, and science, we help people *create* it.
Crazy!
Nearly 6 billion people live in the 101 countries that a study has identified as confronting a net decline in water supply — signaling enormous challenges for food production and a heightening risk of conflict and instability.
(Published July 2025)
Farmers are boosting their profits and production – with nature’s help.
#agsky #agriculture #TreesForProfit
theconversation.com/farmers-are-...
Can't read the WaPo piece but can recommend a read of this one about the "predictability barrier" from climate scientist, Dr Mandy Freund @climatefreund.bsky.social
A new study found that sycophancy is a pervasive function of leading chatbots, which are likely to give users bad/antisocial advice when asked about real-world interpersonal conflicts -- warping users' judgement and promoting dependence.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
"If the NDIS is ‘runaway spending’, what do we call $16 billion in fossil fuel subsidies?" @rodcampbell.bsky.social for @thepointau.bsky.social
thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
Agrivoltaics: "not just a land-sharing concept, but a systems-level solution to some of the world’s most pressing challenges.”
New all-time record set for Victoria, Walpeup 48.9°C, noting that Ouyen won’t report until tomorrow as it is a manually recorded site.
reg.bom.gov.au/places/vic/
Adam Bandt:
“Coal and gas exports are destroying the great Australian summer”…
“I sat in that building for years watching politicians make solemn condolence speeches about fires and floods, then go and approve another coal or gas mine.”
#Heatwave #SantosHeatwave
In addition to higher yields with agrivoltaics, they found reduced water demand and CO₂ emissions through partial shading, climate buffering from improved land productivity by co-optimizing agriculture and solar energy on the same land base.
www.pv-magazine.com/2026/01/22/a...
Incorporating solar energy with farmland can double land use, reduce water usage, increase yields, provide shade, and generate energy and income. Dive into the many benefits of agrivoltaics ➡️ ow.ly/QIrO50Y1NGY 🔌💡
Ultimately, then, it's not surprising to see the term "hysteria" resurfacing now, as a way to vilify those (disproportionately women) who are trying to sound the alarm in the face of fascism, and those who are trying to combat hate with community and care. 7/
People: I don't want to pay more taxes!
Mother Nature: Fuck it all... burn it all down.
People: Why didn't the government buy equipment to deal with it?
Government: We don't have the money. Should we increase taxes to pay for it?
People: Fuck NO!
Mother Nature: it's me again.
The world has entered “an era of global water bankruptcy” with irreversible consequences, according to a new United Nations report. https://cnn.it/4qxGTNX
Battle for the bush? Ignore the noise – most farmers like renewables
theconversation.com/battle-for-t...
The National Climate Risk Assessment is now live:
www.acs.gov.au/pages/nation...
I wonder if the technology made by overt genocidal fascists by stealing all human creation in the world that we know of that heats the planet while poisoning the water, air, and our very minds, in order to deskill us and control us, technology that doesn't even work good, is inherently fascist
having thought about this for three days, my current status is:
what the FUCK are we doing trying to ban social media for kids and not banning AI use? we are literally telling them not to use the computer to talk to their real friends but instead to the imaginary technology monetisable 'friends'.
The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.
Maybe it’s time to fucking tax mega corps properly already
