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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say

Exclusive: report by Stand.earth says subsidiary of power plant received truckloads of whole logs at biomass pellet sites Drax power plant has continued to burn 250-year-old trees sourced from some of Canada’s oldest forests despite growing scrutiny of its sustainability claims, forestry experts say. A new report suggests it is “highly likely” that Britain’s biggest power plant sourced some wood from ecologically valuable forests as recently as this summer. Drax, Britain’s single biggest source of carbon emissions, has received billions of pounds in subsidies from burning biomass derived largely from wood. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 4d

challenge difficulty for chatbot-using applicants: impossible

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 4d

a protip is not to plagiarize my paper in your application if you want me to fund you

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 9d

It would seem they're still flaring in the Bakken.

Out-of-plane photo over Williston, North Dakota -ish showing a lot of fire spots

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 9d

P sure it’s business formal and also p sure I need this to happen again soon ❤️

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 10d

My thrifted flannel is very professional and very clean!!!!

Also I’m wearing a belt and brand new shoes. YOU’RE WELCOME, THE LAW.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 14d

Elsevier just published an article advocating more AI-use in peer-review... that was written with the assistance of AI.

Abolish predatory journals (Elsevier).

www.elsevier.com/connect/reth...

Looking ahead
The future of scientific publishing and peer review will likely include more AI-powered tools. At Elsevier, we are committed to navigating this future responsibly, with the research community at the heart of every decision, always with human oversight, ethical safeguards, and transparency.

As we rethink peer review in the AI era, one principle remains clear: technology can support the process, but human insight must lead it.

Disclaimer: AI was used in refining the language of the article with human oversight.

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · Oct 11

It's been really, really nice seeing the Catholic social justice tradition in the US feel like it's empowered to spread its wings again without risking censure after a long time of being suppressed by US Catholic leadership, and it's exactly what I was hoping for from Pope Bob.

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · Oct 9

weird for a justice40 program, huh?

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · Oct 9

Oh shit you’re right, how could I have overlooked this

Adrienne Marshall @hydro-adrienne.bsky.social · Oct 7

🌧️ Correlation distances of precipitation gauges vary in both space and time! New work out in @agu.org's GRL, led by @alexayeo.bsky.social (with @lakeographer.bsky.social and me) examines precip correlation distances over the US. Check it out: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Maps of the US, showing trends in precipitation correlation distances over a 70-year observational record in each season. Summer correlation distances are decreasing.

Nathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social · Oct 7

It’s a good thing Texas installed so much reliable solar, wind, and battery capacity to shoulder the load in the event the state’s unreliable coal generation suffered a catastrophic failure.

Because apparently it did.

🔌💡

ieefa.org/resources/ne...

Newest big U.S. coal-plant offline until 2027

The newest major coal-fired power plant in the U.S. is expected to be offline until March 2027 after a major failure in April.

ieefa.org

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · Oct 7

I mean, this is basically just plagiarizing my website with a few minor issues. I'm not too fussed about this particular characterization (but also is "what Emily says about herself" what searchers are looking for?) -- I'm more worried about characterization of my findings than my focus

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · Oct 7

At the risk of angry-posting, I hope we learn something from this given the *extensive* environmental justice and environmental concessions that were made to "protect" the programs

Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social · Oct 7

🚨 Breaking: Heatmap has obtained a new internal DOE grant termination list that includes the two major DAC hub awards — Oxy/1PointFive's South Texas DAC Hub and Heirloom/Climeworks' Project Cypress in Louisiana.
heatmap.news/politics/doe...

Trump to Cancel Direct Air Capture Hubs in Texas, Louisiana

A new list of grant cancellations obtained by Heatmap includes Climeworks and Heirloom projects funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

heatmap.news

James Temple @jtemple.bsky.social · Oct 7

DOE appears set to terminate tens of millions in funding for Project Cypress and South Texas Direct Air Capture Hub, the two big projects in the US DAC Hubs program.

The US is set to cancel funding for two major direct-air capture plants

he terminations cut tens of millions of dollars that Climeworks, Heirloom, Oxy and others were depending on to develop carbon removal projects in Louisiana and Texas.

www.technologyreview.com

Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social · Oct 7

🚨 Breaking: Heatmap has obtained a new internal DOE grant termination list that includes the two major DAC hub awards — Oxy/1PointFive's South Texas DAC Hub and Heirloom/Climeworks' Project Cypress in Louisiana.
heatmap.news/politics/doe...

Trump to Cancel Direct Air Capture Hubs in Texas, Louisiana

A new list of grant cancellations obtained by Heatmap includes Climeworks and Heirloom projects funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

heatmap.news

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · Oct 7

An actual quote from the shitty summary that popped up when I was looking for a link to my RNG paper, which is basically purely a model with no societal components and is pretty forcefully against RNG:
"Her work...advocat[es] for RNG systems that support essential services and protect people."

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · Oct 7

This is a privileged complaint, but one thing I find really, really insidious about search-embedded LLMs that affects my life is that summaries make me sound way less technical than I am, and also basically claim that I advocate for really problematic technologies as social justice tools.

Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · Oct 6

Will I be the first to suggest the carbon offsets worked exactly as planned: they delayed real action for another 25 years

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Oct 6

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions The failure of carbon offsets to cut planet-heating pollution is “not due to a few bad apples”, a review paper has found, but down to deep-seated systemic problems that incremental change will not solve. Research over two decades has found “intractable” problems that have made carbon credits in most big programmes poor quality, according to the study. While the industry and diplomats have made efforts to improve the system, it found much-awaited rules agreed at a UN climate summit last year “did not substantially address the quality problem”. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · Oct 6

Genuinely I just taught my undergrads that — as neutrally as I can possibly say this — the fact that lots of our legislators remember the 70s oil crisis explains some unfortunately high proportion of our energy policy

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · Oct 5

my kingdom for the research community to stop bemoaning the need to "overbuild" renewables while smiling magnanimously upon the economically efficient choice to have peaker gas plants running at 10% cap factors.

it's not overbuilding if we need that much to meet demand!

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · Oct 5

It’s not, phew!

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · Oct 5

I mean I am calling for nationalization of a number of critical industries, so no, but yes

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · Oct 4

Give all research faculty support for 1 student/year challenge

Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · Oct 4

Sometimes I think about how from 1935-1975ish, Bell Labs produced an insane amount of revolutionary science and technology, including 11 Nobel Prizes, the transistor, UNIX, C, the laser, the solar cell, information theory, etc. The secret? Provide scientists with ample, steady, no-strings funding.

sites.stat.columbia.edu

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · Oct 4

So I assumed this was coming and/or happening but I just found my first actual record of using LLMs instead of people in a participatory decision making process. Tbc I support doing work to figure out what likely problems are before using people's time, but actually *subbing* the people...smdh

Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · Oct 4

Sometimes I think about how from 1935-1975ish, Bell Labs produced an insane amount of revolutionary science and technology, including 11 Nobel Prizes, the transistor, UNIX, C, the laser, the solar cell, information theory, etc. The secret? Provide scientists with ample, steady, no-strings funding.

sites.stat.columbia.edu

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · Sep 30

Coal recommissioning 🙃

Relatedly, what was that again about how EPA didn’t need to regulate new build coal because no one would do that? I heard proposals for new coal under Biden and I hear them more now.

Energy Department Announces $625 Million Investment to Reinvigorate and Expand America’s Coal Industry

The U.S. Department of Energy today announced a $625 million investment to expand and reinvigorate America’s coal industry, aiming to boost energy production and support coal communities nationwide.

www.energy.gov

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · Sep 27

Oh, for sure. this is still a huge issue we need to work on — dialysis also comes up a lot in more modern settings — but seeing the casual reference to an iron lung was pretty wild.

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · Sep 27

congrats, sara!! super cool!

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · Sep 27

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