AI is the worst thing to happen to human intelligence since Google.

Is everyone aware that flights are (often much) cheaper than trains in Europe because aviation fuel isn't taxed?

You want to see Pierre and Marie Curie with their bicycles. The Curie Museum claims this was their wedding day but that’s hard to believe.

Marie Curie was the first person to be awarded two Nobel Prizes!

I think most people (myself included) don’t have an intuition for orders of magnitude (e.g., the difference between millionaire and billionaire).

One way to appreciate this is time, since we all experience it. Here's the difference between a thousand, a million, and a billion seconds.

Data center emissions likely 662% higher than big tech claims, but Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Meta and Apple have all claim carbon neutrality. Lol.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/sep/15/data-center-gas-emissions-tech

Psst…You want to know about the NASA website that spells out your name in Landsat imagery.

https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNameInLandsat-main/index.html

A lot of what I see reported as climate solutions will do absolutely nothing for climate. We know what works right now (top 5: wind, solar, energy efficiency, stop deforestation, cut CH₄ emissions).

We’re not going to reach our climate targets if we keep doing this.

“A report by Doctors for the Environment Australia has found fossil fuel pollution is leading to more deaths globally than smoking.

“The group is calling for a ban on all new fossil fuel projects, a ban on fossil fuel advertising and no more subsidies.”

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-14/fossil-fuels-report-health-risks-doctors-for-the-environment/104222818

Heatwaves deaths (50k in Europe last year) caused by fossil fuel burning is obviously an issue, but we shouldn’t overlook air pollution from fossil fuel use, which kills >5 million people worldwide every year.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/12/heat-aggravated-by-carbon-pollution-killed-50000-in-europe-last-year-study

CEO: "Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned. My company emitted one million tonnes of CO₂ and contributed to climate change."

Priest: "Say three Hail Marys and pay $250 to plant 1000 trees."

CEO: "Thank you, Father."

Extreme ‘heat dome’ hitting Olympics ‘impossible’ without global heating

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/31/extreme-heat-dome-hitting-olympics-impossible-without-global-heating

If the world welcomed refugees in boats the way we welcomed the Refugee Olympic Team in a boat…

🧵I read this justification from so-called environmental activists against research on climate solutions, and I have thoughts.

No, climate scientists aren’t projecting 2.5°C of warming. This is an opinion poll; just like this article, it’s not scientific. 1/n

TBH, this seems worse than having the road blocked by climate activists for a few minutes, much less talk about doing so on a Zoom call.

Good news: In 8 years, electricity generation from non-fossil-fuel sources (including nuclear) rose by 44%

Bad news: In the same period, global electricity output increased 23% and generation by fossil fuels reached an all-time peak.

With #Beryl barreling across the Caribbean as the earliest cat. 5 on record, let’s remember that things are just going to get worse as we continue to consume nearly 100 million barrels of oil every day.

We’re making a lot of plastic. In the nearly 70 years between 1950 and 2019, we produced a total of ~9.5 billion tonnes of plastic.

But that's equivalent in weight to the amount of CO₂ we emitted to the atmosphere during the first three months of 2024.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/26/plastics-companies-blocking-mitigation-efforts

Climate deniers claiming that because Earth's climate has changed in the past, anthropogenic climate change isn't real is like saying because everyone dies, murder isn't real.

The IPCC says* it’s unequivocal that humans are responsible for global heating and our GHG emissions are responsible for 100% of the recent warming.

Preindustrial atmospheric CO₂ was ~280 ppm and now it’s >420 ppm, so we’re responsible for 33% of what’s in the atmosphere (not 3%).

*When I say “the IPCC says…”, that’s shorthand for “some of the world’s best scientists volunteered years of their time pouring over tons of peer reviewed publications and summarized their conclusions to say…”.