Thank you!!

The degree of this helpful anticorrelation varies in interesting ways depending on location, season, and time scale, as we show here: interactive.epri.com/wiires-case-...

OSC Hatch Act guidance: "In general, all federal employees may use social media and comply with the Hatch Act if they
remember the following three prohibitions:
(1) On Duty or in the Workplace Prohibition – Employees may not engage in political activity while on duty or in the federal workplace."

I tracked down the source of this quote, and it's even worse in context, considering the people he's talking about. No one should be assaulted, including people like Charlie who make their living by insulting people wiser and better than they are. x.com/patriottakes...

Yes, a great timeline for wind or solar infrastructure + storage. Nuclear would be much more expensive, no?

A nuclear power plant only makes sense to build if you expect to need the power for 40+ years. But AI-related computational demand might be a flash in the pan.

Thanks for your reporting on this important issue. I'm curious about your thinking on the temporal mismatch of AI demand and nuclear infrastructure. Besides the construction time issues that you mention, isn't a big part of the story that no one knows how long the AI-related demand will last?

Not much to see in the US... Isn't this really a distributional question? Who's getting the wealth? www.macrotrends.net/global-metri....

A friend suggests you've cherry picked the starting point of your analysis to get a noticeable fall-off in the global growth rate- thoughts? www.facebook.com/share/p/1BSq...

And we need to be thinking about what kind of stories people want to tell about their lives?

Nice piece! Would it be fair to say that, now that our aggregate material needs for housing, clothing, food and health care can be met in any society with a per capita GDP above the EU minimum, GDP growth is just a poor measure of progress?

By the way, these links came to me via @billmckibben.bsky.social's excellent newsletter, to which I assume you are all already subscribed.

Aren't they going to do that anyway? Why participate in this charade?

It's probably worth noting that there is *zero* call for this from the private weather industry, which relies on the weather service for observations, analysis and models that they use to make tailed forecasts for commercial interests.