Brian E

Unchecked: The architecture of disinformation Misinformation and disinformation thrive in today’s technology landscape, and arguably present the greatest threat to modern society. Information architecture – the practice of designing and managing ...

In search of: Podcast guest who can speak to disinformation about the US economy.

I have a podcast called Unchecked about disinformation and the systems that enable it.

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"This is more or less Gates’ point, that climate should be treated as one of many problems that we need to solve rather than an all-encompassing ur-problem. But by and large the majority of people and policymakers have been treating it as just that."

2025 State of the Climate Report: Our Planet's Vital Signs are Crashing - Eos A yearly analysis of climate change’s progress and effects shows a “planet on the brink” of ecological breakdown and widespread crisis and suggests that only rapid climate mitigation able to avoid the...

2025 State of the Climate Report: Our Planet's Vital Signs are Crashing eos.org/research-and...

The rocks can be mined on land as I understand.
Every farm causes harm to eco-systems, but we need to eat. We can consider least damaging way, same goes here, we need removal. I am i undecided on which method, but obviously curious.

I agree that bias should not be overly involved in these considerations. That said, mining seems less important than a liveable planet, and I choose to accept that bias.

We do need some kind of large scale removal as I understand stuff, and the natural sinks seems under pressure. At some point, we have to choose the least disruptive tools.
I had some hope for this grinding & spreading thing, but potential eco-downsides, do raise concern.

Deep-sea mining discharge can disrupt midwater food webs - Nature Communications Deep-sea mining in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone may release waste into midwaters that support diverse marine life. This study finds such discharges could dilute key food particles and disrupt trophic l...

This study by my colleagues at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa shows that deep sea mining waste to be released near the ocean surface would disrupt marine food webs.

The same would be true of grinding and spreading rocks in the ocean for CO₂ removal. 🌊

Det kan du have ret i, og det er svært at finde den rette, en universel måde at kommunikere det her på.
I sidste ende, handler det måske også mere om mængden af misinformation, der er ødelæggende for en seriøs debat, og reelle reduktioner. Tusind tak for svar. 😀

You don’t earn a billion. You extract it.

Jeg er enig, men ordet reducere, burde måske have været eliminere, da vi vel er et sted, hvor negative emissioner er påkrævet, og ordet eliminere repræsenterer størrelsen af problemet bedre. Det er dog også væsentligt med samtidig tilpasning, deri er jeg helt enig.

Better to farm solar for energy
than to farm crops to use for biofuels

1ha solar array ~600kW
1000-1500 MWh/year (varies with location)

>100x more energy than

1ha planted crop for biofuels
- Soybean: ~8.3 MWh/yr

(updated graphic with revised numbers including corn and sugar cane)

Taking the Pulse: Has Europe Given Up its Leadership on Climate Change? COP30 takes place amidst increased pessimism about the world’s commitment to energy transition and ecological protection. Beset by a host of other challenges, can Europe still maintain its role as a d...

My answer to this question was to remind everyone that even if Europe was leading, its actions are grossly insufficient to limit warming to well below 2°C.
carnegieendowment.org/europe/strat...

It’s one thing to have different environmental/health priorities for your foundation, it’s quite another to have been bankrolling one of the primary sources of bullshit on the topic.

5/5
So yes, the idea sounds good on paper. But in practice, it’s more of a business model than a climate plan. Denmark’s green transition remains stuck in old habits.

4/5
Meanwhile, our coastal waters are dying from nitrogen runoff, 60 % of land is farmed, and 66 % of “renewable” energy still comes from biomass.

3/5
The plan assumes continued — even higher — livestock production, with no real solution for methane emissions. It’s climate arithmetic that doesn’t add up.

2/5
Real restoration is delayed until 2045, far beyond the point where ecosystems can recover without massive effort. Delay has become the default policy.

1/5
I like the idea of restoring nature, but Denmark’s new tripartite deal is mostly symbolic. It relies on voluntary action — and that’s never worked in Danish agriculture.

We do, but unfortunately one that prefers CCS and biomass as the main – and basically only – reduction routes. Wording matters, but real reductions beat cheap talk

Even climate scientists had to double-check this.
Global emissions rose again in 2024 — and more than half of that increase came from land-use change, mostly deforestation.
That’s how far off track we still are, we need radical system change to counter the mess we created.

Natural carbon uptake by ocean biology will not deliver credible carbon credits Nature Reviews Earth & Environment - Natural CO2 removal is increasingly being claimed as anthropogenic climate mitigation. This misrepresentation is already prevalent for forests and coastal...

"Natural CO2 removal is increasingly being claimed as anthropogenic climate mitigation. This misrepresentation is already prevalent for forests and coastal ecosystems; there is now the risk of the error reoccurring for open-ocean CO2 uptake via the biological carbon pump."\

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Mamdani vandt sgu, hold da kæft det er blæret. Et røvspark til de dumme svin.

Why promote the ETS when it doesn’t deliver real emission reductions?

There is increasing talk about overshoot of 1.5°C, particularly that *now* we can only achieve 1.5°C by first overshooting 1.5°C.

Well, sorry to tell you, 1.5°C have always been overshoot scenarios. Here from the original 'SSP' 1.5°C scenarios published in 2018.

[Overshoot is a scenario design]

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YouTube video by Simon Clark The worst month of climate news in my entire career

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The 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink We are hurtling toward climate chaos. The planet's vital signs are flashing red. The consequences of human-driven alterations of the climate are no longer

This is not sustainable.

academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

Here's the thing: 2.5-3C of global warming is actually still really bad news. Is it better than 3-5C of warming? Undoubtedly. But I don't think many folks, apparently including Gates & advisors, appreciate just how radically transformed a 2.5-3C warmer world would be. [10/n]

In fact, the preponderance of scientific evidence in recent years points increasingly toward each increment of warming being MORE consequential, and harmful to both human systems and societies and ecosystems, than previously believed--not less. [7/n]

I wanted to offer some thoughts on the Gates climate memo that has been circulating this week. While I can't directly speak for others, I can say that my own response is one of dismay & deep frustration (and that this view is shared by many climate/Earth scientists). [1/n]