Nature-based Climate Solutions – 7 must-knows for effective implementation Nature-basedClimate Solutions must-knowsfor effectiveimplementation Purpose Nature-based climate solutions, or NbCS, are actions to preserve and enhance carbon storage in natural or managed ecosystems...

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The New Twin Fossil Shock | Ember How the energy crises of the 2020s speed up the electric age

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Some simple truths about methane vs. CO2. I've said this before, in various ways, in various peer reviewed papers, but I keep repeating it with variations hoping the message will get through somehow.

(1) CO2 accumulates in the atmosphere. If you introduce a new CO2 emission source into the system

Earthset captured through the Orion spacecraft window at 6:41 p.m. EDT, April 6, 2026, during the Artemis II crew’s flyby of the Moon. A muted blue Earth with bright white clouds sets behind the cratered lunar surface. The dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime. On Earth’s day side, swirling clouds are visible over the Australia and Oceania region. In the foreground, Ohm crater has terraced edges and a flat floor interrupted by central peaks. Central peaks form in complex craters when the lunar surface, liquefied on impact, splashes upwards during the crater’s formation. [alt text from NASA]

#Artemis II lunar flyby images are showing up! 😍

A crescent Earth setting behind the Moon.

Well that was cool. Didn’t know how much I’d be afraid the rocket would blow up. I think I’ve watched too many Challenger Documentaries.

Good luck and god’s speed to Jeremy Hansen and the other astronauts!

2 days of war spending, to put that into a bit of perspective.

Far cheaper to run than oil, works without issues in our -15C winter nights and the AC is a huge perk given our warming summers.

I live on Eastern Canada (Nova Scotia) where people used to rely on heating with oil. People would spend $3000 to $6000 a year on furnace oil. With all the unpredictable fluctuations in price inherent with oil.

People here love heat pumps. Most people I know now have them.

Can’t get drier. Literally 0 ppm H2O concentration. Over 30K below complete freeze out.

The last member of the PLA with combat experience was retired (against his will) last month.

In fairness decisive victories have become vanishingly rare for any great power in modern times. The Soviets got thrashed in Afghanistan and The Russians are bogged down in a quagmire in Ukraine. China hasn’t even tried going to war in almost 50 years.

Sort of the first Gulf War. The objective of driving Iraq out of Kuwait was achieved. But there was no way to really win. Stop at the Iraq border Saddam stays in power. Invade Iraq and just have the Iraq war in the 90s.

Otherwise WWII.

Not even Christian fanatics think history started at the traditional date of Jesus’s birth.

I understand some compromise was made at some meeting but it was the wrong science communication choice.

Stop 10 people on the street and ask them when they think the ‘historical period’ starts, and you would get vague answers about Egypt, possibly Sumer or maybe the Shang Dynasty.

But they have Bronze and Iron age, units of time for classical western history.

They should have said what was meant (Common or Vulgar Era) or labelled Classical Antiquity and Mediaeval Eras to be consistent with Bronze and Iron age.

IMO the clean energy transition will start moving fast now, but while it will be a gentle ride for some economies, it's going to cut like a buzz-saw through through those that chose to delay and lock-in structural fossil fuel dependency. This will be masked by a brief burst in revenues for sellers.

The timescale on this figure really bugs me. What is ‘historical’ supposed to mean?

Clearly not supposed to be written history since that starts in the Bronze Age.

Did they rename the Common Era “Historical” is some deranged compromise?

In gradual ramp-down scenarios CO2 can peak decades before net zero. This will probably become a major science communication nightmare in the future.

The land biosphere is more complex but most models show some residual ability to take up CO2, but with much larger uncertainty.

Yes but at that time the ocean and atmosphere were close to chemical equilibrium with respect to CO2.

We have emitted CO2 so fast the atmosphere and ocean are massively out of chemical equilibrium, so the ocean will continue to take up CO2 after emissions cease.

I’m fairly certain this would be a provincial responsibility.

When I put up my solar panels all the regulations were provincial.

So is this clump of neurons just Maud-dibing it way through Doom?

Best Part:

Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week Neuron-powered computer chips can now be easily programmed to play a first-person shooter game, bringing biological computers a step closer to useful applications

I’ve never wanted to read the ethics board approval for a study more than this:

www.newscientist.com/article/2517...

Also drives home the fact that neurons are not Universal Turing Machines.

I can ask group members do specific examples if this is useful for you.

There is a range of uses from very simple questions from new grad students who usually have limited programming experience, to very obscure questions from my research tech. who now maintains UVic ESCM climate model.

Reformatting excel tables into LaTex is another use that saves time.

For my research group LLMs have been useful as a Fortran reference. The language is so archaic that finding help online was always very hard. But ChatGPT usually has useful answers.

Not sure it outweighs the downsides but it is sometimes legitimately useful.

A reminder that the rapture is considered theological nonsense by almost all Christian denominations, and is a belief confined to some branches of American Protestantism.

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Well the next American on the moon. If the landing is delayed to 2029 there is a very good chance the Chinese get there first.

The Chinese lander is ready and Longmarch 10 is on schedule. Their lunar capable capsule did an unmanned test last month. And should start runs to their space station soon.