“Nearly three-quarters of planned generation equipment for data centres is natural gas fired, according to energy research firm Cleanview, which is tracking 56GW of projects across the US.”
($) www.ft.com/content/b0f8...
It's being increasingly normalized for us all to be in someone's camera. Meta's glasses are trying to take that to an extreme.
So this is worth highlighting:
"Smart glasses from Meta turn you into a 'douchebag with a camera on your face'"
www.ft.com/content/3039...
It is now up to the EU Parliament and Member States to push back and together with the Commission find a true solution to the current crisis.
Yes, some relief is needed in the short term but that's not accomplished by degrading EU's long-term commitment to clean energy, which is what the proposal is doing.
The unfortunate consequence is that this will degrade the ETS' ability to incentivize investment in clean energy which is, in fact, what the EU needs to ensure electricity affordability and energy security.
The effect this has is to decrease the CO2 price in the *long term* (meaning in a decade) with questionable (in my current opinion, near-zero) effects on CO2 prices in the *near term* when households need relief. Not to mention that CO2 prices have a limited influence on European electricity prices.
The EC proposes to stop the invalidation mechanism inside the ETS' Stability Reserve. So while excess permits (defined as >400 million permits in the Reserve) were previously invalidated, they will now be kept in the Reserve so they can be released later to allow companies to keep emitting CO2.
In response to Trump's War in Iran, the European Commission this week published a proposal to amend the EU's CO2 price.
The problem is that the proposed changes are exactly backward: they degrade the long term CO2 price with little to nor relief in the short term. 🤦♂️
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
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Hear hear!
”Perhaps consuming a few dozen book pages a day should become the new 10,000 daily steps — a basic foundation of activity to maintain cognitive fitness.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/o...
Oh I know this one!
Trump has always wanted his name attached to stuff right?
A huge problem with claims that something is "performative" is that they are epistemically extremely underdetermined.
The person making such claims has no idea what's driving the person accused of "performing".
Their confidence in such claims is likely driven by their own insecure projection.
That men reading in public is vilified as "performative" is idiotic.
Books are good y'all.
Well said.
Attacking good things with claims they are "performative" is so shallow.
But I guess I am biased since I am a male who's read Ferrante 🙃
Kier Starmer:
"What gives us control is renewables. Our own home-grown energy which is then more secure and more independent.
That’s why I think we should go further and faster on renewables.
Let’s get control of our own energy…so we don’t have to keep worrying that our bills are going to go up"
For the academic treatment, colleagues and I provided the formal demonstration of how this problem acts as a barrier to decarbonizing electricity and why a good climate policy mix needs to address it. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Electricity markets suffer from a missing market problem that is hindering decarbonization but remains poorly understood.
So it's good to see this good non-academic read on the topic, and Australia is a good case study for understanding it better.
inflectionpoints.work/articles/rew...
Americans didn't ask for this.
At the same time, why bother with it if your clients are not asking for it. Both the supply and demand side of the forecasting business are set up so that point-forecasts are just the convention.
I see your point and grant you that your level of transparency helps a lot.
FWIW, I wouldn't say probabilities are another thing. It's all integrated. Probabilistic forecasting enforces coherency. Not to mention that ppl making decisions need to know how much weight to put on any given number.
As we wrote: "a limited reliance on carbon pricing provides a disproportionately large share of the benefits offered by theoretically optimal carbon pricing."
What our research showed is that there is a range of policy mixes that are near-optimal. This is because the efficiency advantage of carbon pricing has diminishing returns, which is the main fundamental insight from the paper.
This is not meant to let nations off the hook. The proposal being discussed in Italy is highly ill-conceived. But the point is that climate policy can overcome political challenges by changing how much it relies on different instruments within the policy mix.
As EU lawmakers are looking to soften the continent's CO2 price, it's worth remembering that policy makers can overcome political constraints by complementing CO2 pricing with subsidies without sacrificing much economic efficiency, as I and @knittelmit.bsky.social show here: doi.org/10.1016/j.en...
It’s definitely harder, don’t get me wrong.
There’s a lot to say but to start it makes uncertainty/ignorance explicit. The process itself helps forecasting improve over time. And you can track accuracy with Brier scoring, etc.
Have you considered making probabilistic forecasts?
"Our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate. He's weak and he's ineffective."
-- Donald J. Trump (Nov. 2011)
www.youtube.com/shorts/siIXY...
I know right!
