I respect Environmental Research Letters, but these results is already outdated. The authors estimate that the adoption of AI will add ~900,000 tons of CO2/year. The Homer City Energy Campus alone (a 4.5 GW gas station planned for next year to power AI) will blow those numbers out of the water.
Watts and bots: the energy implications of AI adoption - IOPscience
Watts and bots: the energy implications of AI adoption, Harding, Anthony R, Moreno-Cruz, Juan
doi.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I respect Environmental Research Letters, but these results is already outdated. The authors estimate that the adoption of AI will add ~900,000 tons of CO2/year. The Homer City Energy Campus alone (a 4.5 GW gas station planned for next year to power AI) will blow those numbers out of the water.
"We haven't tried anything, and we're all out of ideas"
The biggest disappointment is how Bill Gates hat sprinkled money on vanity projects such as CCS, nuclear fusion, and solar thermal power plants.
When he just could have bankrolled the Adani Green Energy of North America.
The biggest disappointment is how Bill Gates hat sprinkled money on vanity projects such as CCS, nuclear fusion, and solar thermal power plants.
When he just could have bankrolled the Adani Green Energy of North America.
This is just mind-bendingly wrong-headed. ‘Let’s just adapt, tech will save us’ has always been a reckless strategy, but as evidence mounts that natural carbon sinks are failing it really does start to sink into a form of climate denialism.
www.newsweek.com/bill-gates-d...
www.newsweek.com/bill-gates-d...
Bill Gates Delivers ‘Tough Truths’ on Climate Just Before Big U.N. Talks
Bill Gates argues against focusing on emissions goals in favor of measures of human development.
www.newsweek.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:18 PM
"We haven't tried anything, and we're all out of ideas"
The biggest disappointment is how Bill Gates hat sprinkled money on vanity projects such as CCS, nuclear fusion, and solar thermal power plants.
When he just could have bankrolled the Adani Green Energy of North America.
The biggest disappointment is how Bill Gates hat sprinkled money on vanity projects such as CCS, nuclear fusion, and solar thermal power plants.
When he just could have bankrolled the Adani Green Energy of North America.
You know, after all those grand victories, such as *checks notes* record-high emissions in 2024...
you know, if there's one group that really needs punching deep down into the soil right now, it's those climate activists, who seem to just be kicking far too many goals and need to be brought down a notch
October 29, 2025 at 12:09 PM
You know, after all those grand victories, such as *checks notes* record-high emissions in 2024...
The European mind cannot handle the sheer length of American ingredient lists.
(This is just some latin American stuffed potatoes, not a three course meal).
(This is just some latin American stuffed potatoes, not a three course meal).
October 26, 2025 at 4:40 PM
The European mind cannot handle the sheer length of American ingredient lists.
(This is just some latin American stuffed potatoes, not a three course meal).
(This is just some latin American stuffed potatoes, not a three course meal).
Just heard that the National Science Foundation will not renew its contract for the last remaining research ice breaker. This will really put a damper on Antarctic research. Not sure what the operator will do with that ice breaker, but there is a possibility that this is irreversible. Pay attention!
October 21, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Just heard that the National Science Foundation will not renew its contract for the last remaining research ice breaker. This will really put a damper on Antarctic research. Not sure what the operator will do with that ice breaker, but there is a possibility that this is irreversible. Pay attention!
Looks like cars could get much more expensive in America and Europe. Strongly suspect some governments will chime in with subsidies.
First Ford, Now Jeep. Automakers Are Hit by Lack of Parts
Supply-chain snafus for rare-earth minerals, aluminum and semiconductors have hit carmakers simultaneously
www.wsj.com
October 20, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Looks like cars could get much more expensive in America and Europe. Strongly suspect some governments will chime in with subsidies.
Of course they're looking to revive KXL. That's a throwback you have to do every four years, obviously. Feels like a hollow victory when no fossil fuel project is never truly dead and people just abide their time.
www.reuters.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Of course they're looking to revive KXL. That's a throwback you have to do every four years, obviously. Feels like a hollow victory when no fossil fuel project is never truly dead and people just abide their time.
Just noticed that using unicode characters as the shape for ```geom_point``` is pretty stable now. Game changer, now I can finally make parrot plots 🦜🦜🦜
I wonder whether any work on 4.0.0 went into this.
www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09...
I wonder whether any work on 4.0.0 went into this.
www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09...
October 14, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Just noticed that using unicode characters as the shape for ```geom_point``` is pretty stable now. Game changer, now I can finally make parrot plots 🦜🦜🦜
I wonder whether any work on 4.0.0 went into this.
www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09...
I wonder whether any work on 4.0.0 went into this.
www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09...
I keep forgetting that we categorically cannot have nice things.
Now that Tesla has officially given up on building an affordable electric car, could someone else maybe full that void? Anyone? No? Too bad.
October 13, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I keep forgetting that we categorically cannot have nice things.
Now that Tesla has officially given up on building an affordable electric car, could someone else maybe full that void? Anyone? No? Too bad.
October 13, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Now that Tesla has officially given up on building an affordable electric car, could someone else maybe full that void? Anyone? No? Too bad.
Looks like someone accidentally said the quiet part out loud. To reduce fossil fuel issue, you stay by curtailing production.
Please enjoy this executive at one of America's biggest gas companies openly admitting that expanding supply leads to increased demand for fossil fuels
He is not wrong: frantic expansion of fossil fuel supply worsens climate change. Tax it, cut subsidies, wind it down
www.ft.com/content/5ba8...
He is not wrong: frantic expansion of fossil fuel supply worsens climate change. Tax it, cut subsidies, wind it down
www.ft.com/content/5ba8...
October 9, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Looks like someone accidentally said the quiet part out loud. To reduce fossil fuel issue, you stay by curtailing production.
Reposted by Julian Barg
Please enjoy this executive at one of America's biggest gas companies openly admitting that expanding supply leads to increased demand for fossil fuels
He is not wrong: frantic expansion of fossil fuel supply worsens climate change. Tax it, cut subsidies, wind it down
www.ft.com/content/5ba8...
He is not wrong: frantic expansion of fossil fuel supply worsens climate change. Tax it, cut subsidies, wind it down
www.ft.com/content/5ba8...
October 9, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Please enjoy this executive at one of America's biggest gas companies openly admitting that expanding supply leads to increased demand for fossil fuels
He is not wrong: frantic expansion of fossil fuel supply worsens climate change. Tax it, cut subsidies, wind it down
www.ft.com/content/5ba8...
He is not wrong: frantic expansion of fossil fuel supply worsens climate change. Tax it, cut subsidies, wind it down
www.ft.com/content/5ba8...
Always wondered why restaurant food often seemed so disappointing across North America. I had suspected Sysco had something to do with it. Spot on!
The Hidden Reason So Many Restaurants Taste the Same
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
www.youtube.com
October 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Always wondered why restaurant food often seemed so disappointing across North America. I had suspected Sysco had something to do with it. Spot on!
Today we were talking about busses, and my daughter worried that if less people buy cars, car factory workers will lose their jobs. I gave her a handwavy explanation that public transit generates jobs, but I don't actually know the labor economics of that. Anyone care to weigh in?
October 6, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Today we were talking about busses, and my daughter worried that if less people buy cars, car factory workers will lose their jobs. I gave her a handwavy explanation that public transit generates jobs, but I don't actually know the labor economics of that. Anyone care to weigh in?
ExxonMobil's "What we do section" opens like this:
> Creating energy and sustainable solutions that improve quality of life and meet society’s evolving needs
Now that's a sentence I would love to see cited in a greenwashing lawsuit in Canada...
> Creating energy and sustainable solutions that improve quality of life and meet society’s evolving needs
Now that's a sentence I would love to see cited in a greenwashing lawsuit in Canada...
What we do | ExxonMobil
Creating sustainable energy and product solutions that improve quality of life and meet society’s evolving needs.
corporate.exxonmobil.com
October 4, 2025 at 8:28 PM
ExxonMobil's "What we do section" opens like this:
> Creating energy and sustainable solutions that improve quality of life and meet society’s evolving needs
Now that's a sentence I would love to see cited in a greenwashing lawsuit in Canada...
> Creating energy and sustainable solutions that improve quality of life and meet society’s evolving needs
Now that's a sentence I would love to see cited in a greenwashing lawsuit in Canada...
> No more beards, long hair, superficial individual expression. We don’t have a military full of Nordic pagans.
Hegseth... Always impressed by their range. Managing to insult such a broad variety of people. Too bad I can't grow a good beard.
Hegseth... Always impressed by their range. Managing to insult such a broad variety of people. Too bad I can't grow a good beard.
September 30, 2025 at 9:35 PM
> No more beards, long hair, superficial individual expression. We don’t have a military full of Nordic pagans.
Hegseth... Always impressed by their range. Managing to insult such a broad variety of people. Too bad I can't grow a good beard.
Hegseth... Always impressed by their range. Managing to insult such a broad variety of people. Too bad I can't grow a good beard.
Just for the record, here is another subsidy for combustion engines.
UK government will underwrite £1.5bn loan guarantee to Jaguar Land Rover after cyber-attack
Britain’s largest automotive employer plans to restart engine manufacturing in early October, report says
www.theguardian.com
September 28, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Just for the record, here is another subsidy for combustion engines.
The amazon turning from carbon sink to carbon source is terrifying. Really driving home the climate feedback/tipping points thing.
> a growing fire-climate feedback, demonstrating how regional extremes increasingly shape the global carbon budget and complicate pathways to climate stabilization.
> a growing fire-climate feedback, demonstrating how regional extremes increasingly shape the global carbon budget and complicate pathways to climate stabilization.
Unprecedented role of Amazon fires in the record atmospheric CO₂ growth in 2024
In 2024, the global mean surface temperature rose above 1.5°C for the first sustained year, coinciding with a record atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) growth rate of 3.2 ppm. Satellite-constrained inve...
essopenarchive.org
September 27, 2025 at 6:52 PM
The amazon turning from carbon sink to carbon source is terrifying. Really driving home the climate feedback/tipping points thing.
> a growing fire-climate feedback, demonstrating how regional extremes increasingly shape the global carbon budget and complicate pathways to climate stabilization.
> a growing fire-climate feedback, demonstrating how regional extremes increasingly shape the global carbon budget and complicate pathways to climate stabilization.
Reposted by Julian Barg
The U.S. Energy Secretary just said on stage at @nytimes.com Climate Forward event that “there are not oil and gas subsidies" in response to a good question from David Gelles. “It’s not a subsidized industry.” Uh. @oilchange.bsky.social @oilchangeus.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 7:18 PM
The U.S. Energy Secretary just said on stage at @nytimes.com Climate Forward event that “there are not oil and gas subsidies" in response to a good question from David Gelles. “It’s not a subsidized industry.” Uh. @oilchange.bsky.social @oilchangeus.bsky.social
Just saw my profile among the list of contributors to ggplot2 4.0.0 - that is a project I want to be affiliated with for sure. Pretty sure it's just for a ticket I opened. It was resolved within a record two days or something, too. The beauty of a well-running free and open-source software project.
ggplot2 4.0.0
A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.
www.tidyverse.org
September 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Just saw my profile among the list of contributors to ggplot2 4.0.0 - that is a project I want to be affiliated with for sure. Pretty sure it's just for a ticket I opened. It was resolved within a record two days or something, too. The beauty of a well-running free and open-source software project.
Utilities really are not rising to the occasion, maybe energy demand from new data centers (AI anyone?) is to blame? Tons of new commitments to build gas power plants - 118 GW capacity planned by 2035. Only 29% of coal capacity poised to be retired by 2030.
www.sierraclub.org
September 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Utilities really are not rising to the occasion, maybe energy demand from new data centers (AI anyone?) is to blame? Tons of new commitments to build gas power plants - 118 GW capacity planned by 2035. Only 29% of coal capacity poised to be retired by 2030.
I live in one of the red areas, hope that narrows it down!
This map shows temperature departures averaged over the last 3 months. What's it like in your area?
🟥 warmer than average
🟦 colder than average
Data from data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/
🟥 warmer than average
🟦 colder than average
Data from data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/
September 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I live in one of the red areas, hope that narrows it down!
CapitalOne has almost $19B invested in fossil fuel companies, and only about $100M in renewables. Maybe I should rethink who I bank with...
reclaimfinance.org
September 24, 2025 at 1:35 AM
CapitalOne has almost $19B invested in fossil fuel companies, and only about $100M in renewables. Maybe I should rethink who I bank with...
I'm hearing lots about insurance companies absorbing meteorologists/recent grads. This industry is in a math war, and the math says things are getting much worse by the year. That's the real economics of climate catastrophy/adaptation were facing.
Home Insurance as You Know It Is Doomed. You’re Not Ready.
The remedies for homeowners so far aren’t preparing them for a financially stable existence as the risk of disaster increases.
www.bloomberg.com
September 19, 2025 at 11:16 PM
I'm hearing lots about insurance companies absorbing meteorologists/recent grads. This industry is in a math war, and the math says things are getting much worse by the year. That's the real economics of climate catastrophy/adaptation were facing.
Unrelated, but my favorite German word is "vorauseilender Gehorsam" or anticipatory compliance. When you take action in expectation of orders that haven't even been given to you or even if you're not in the line of command, to avoid trouble or even opportunistically. For examples see German history.
My first academic article was on the dictatorship of Uzbekistan inventing a group called "Akromiya" that did not really exist but which they used to arrest anyone with whom they disagreed under the pretext of "terrorism". Just bringing this up for no reason whatsoever!
September 19, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Unrelated, but my favorite German word is "vorauseilender Gehorsam" or anticipatory compliance. When you take action in expectation of orders that haven't even been given to you or even if you're not in the line of command, to avoid trouble or even opportunistically. For examples see German history.