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Creighton
But the big uncertainty that determines whether 2100 is a happy place or a less happy place is our decisions on what we do with emissions. And they dwarf the uncertainties that we’re talking about here. We’re talking 0.1, 0.2 degrees. Well, the difference emissions make is 1 degree, 2 degrees, 3 degrees. So it’s an order of magnitude larger. And... See more
Can You Even Survive a Global Famine?
Jessica Wildfire • Can You Even Survive a Global Famine?
Cities Face 'Severe Degradation' Without Meaningful Climate Action, Warn Experts - Health Policy Watch
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‘We don’t know where the tipping point is’: climate expert on potential collapse of Atlantic circulation
Jonathan Wattstheguardian.com
It comes on top of more visible good news—the IEA said this weak that oil demand around the world is softening because of “surging” sales of electric vehicles. In China, demand for gasoline will peak this year or next and then decline sharply. Britain, where the coal era was born, will close it’s last coal-fired power plant at the end of this month... See more
Bill McKibben • Silent Solar
From Bill McKibben’s substack.
In these latter days everybody is familiar with concepts like the carbon footprint, sustainability, and the like. Measures of the ecological cost of the things we do. One of the most irksome problems bedeviling Earth's biosphere at present is the outrageous cost of many aspects of many human lifestyles. Society is gradually and too late awakening... See more
Albert Burneko • Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars
Unsparing commentary on where we are, from the article “Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars”
Ok, so the rumor about OpenAI Orion is that it's "100 times more powerful than GPT-4".
Let's forget that this is ill-defined, and a rumor. It implies gruesomely superhuman generalist ability.
The tech media describes this potentiality like so:
"The model’s development builds on lessons from OpenAI’s past efforts to make interactions with AI more
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