Oliver Morton, Eater of Sun

Not that I have any real problem with buying the paperback. Just harder to read in bed
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It seems that "Too Like the Lightning" by Ada Palmer is available on Kindle in the US but not in the UK. Anyone have any insight into this?

Sea Level Mis-information from DOE Here in the USA, the Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a report titled “A Critical Review of the Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate.” It is a product of the &#8…

Corrections of specific claims in the DoE "Critical Review" of climate science.

I'll start off w/Tamino on "U.S. tide gauge measurements reveal no obvious acceleration in sea-level rise".

Add other examples and we can build a thread.

tamino.wordpress.com/2025/08/03/s...

The report is "tedious" and at times "truly wearisome", according to Bob Kopp, a climate scientist at Rutgers University. Kopp recently worked on a paper showing how rising temperatures and drought will worsen crop yields, counter to the report's claims that crops will flourish with extra carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. "Carbon dioxide fertilization is largely irrelevant to how increasingly extreme heat and intense drought will impact crop yields," Kopp said. "As a former department of energy fellow, I'm embarrassed by this report."

I’m tired and no longer capable of being measured when speaking to reporters…

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Sea Level Mis-information from DOE Here in the USA, the Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a report titled “A Critical Review of the Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate.” It is a product of the &#8…

That's just one of many instances of distortion and misinformation in the US Department of Energy "Critical Review on the Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions".
Which in fact is a fossil fuel propaganda scam.
Let's hope Americans are not that easily fooled.
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What happened to Danny Strong's Guys and Dolls script?

Ellen Ripley and Facehugger in American Gothic by Grant Wood.

making great art even better: thread

Flourishing chemosynthetic life at the greatest depths of hadal trenches - Nature The discovery of chemosynthesis-based benthic communities at depths of 5,800 m to 9,533 m in the Kuril–Kamchatka and western Aleutian trenches challenges traditional perspectives on the energy sources...

The @nature.com paper describing their findings is here.

Cool! -- congratulations.
Not sure it will be one of your ten things, but one of the things I would like to know is what the effects of a Tambora style VEI7 would be on PV electricity generation worldwide.

Chart showing the Keeling curve rising (with annual oscillations) from under 320ppm CO2 in 1960 to well over 420ppm today

Unemployment numbers are not the only ones the Trump administration wants out of sight and out of mind. Very fine @economist.com "By Invitation" op ed by Ralph Keeling www.economist.com/by-invitatio...

If you don’t count covid victims people won’t die.
If you don’t measure carbon the temperature won’t rise.
If you fudge unemployment numbers the economy will soar.

Our fool is building his paradise

If this is the first administration fully immersed in AI, what does it mean that all its decisions are so terminally stupid?

well duh: 330 more....

If I can just get 5,000 people to come and see me doing my tour show I can leave the comedy circuit to carry on without me, and move over to touring, permanently. I got 1,800 people to buy tickets for the last tour, I’m aiming to sell 2,500 this time

This is gorgeous.

What is the artwork and who is the artist?

Spectral fingerprint of laser emission from rhodamine 6g infused male Indian Peafowl tail feathers - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Spectral fingerprint of laser emission from rhodamine 6g infused male Indian Peafowl tail feathers

www.nature.com/articles/s41... Obviously it’s not impossible for lasers to evolve through natural selection — but it is very cool that they have

Photo of a shorebird on a cloudy day, near the water's edge. It has a heavily streaked breast that ends with a clean line at its white belly, black bill and legs, wings look longer than tail, I think?

ID question, Birdsky! I saw this shorebird on the lakefront in Chicago mid-May, apparently, but just noticed it in photos now. Is this a Pectoral Sandpiper, or am I imagining that? #birds

London is increasingly under Shania law. And that don't impress me much.

My wife has the good fortune to have absolutely no chance of seeing that grifting, con man charlatan Farage for a few days

She's taking the grandkids to Clacton for a weekend by the sea

More chance of spotting Bigfoot

The firing of the BLS Commissioner, favorable treatment of Maxwell, intimidation of the universities—a notable week on the slide to a banana republic.

Spellechecke will replayce a word wyth a totallye uneeded differente worde but will no longer add a little apostrophe to "Im" to helpe me out. Thou hadst but one jobbe, spellechecke.

Also, I want to visit the timeline in which there’s a film of The Demolished Man starring Humphrey Bogart

Bucket list!

Spectral fingerprint of laser emission from rhodamine 6g infused male Indian Peafowl tail feathers - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Spectral fingerprint of laser emission from rhodamine 6g infused male Indian Peafowl tail feathers

www.nature.com/articles/s41... Obviously it’s not impossible for lasers to evolve through natural selection — but it is very cool that they have

The "More from Variety" display at the bottom of an article that highlights content readers might be interested in. It features six stories, all of which are about Sydney Sweeney

Variety's algorithm is all in on Sydney Sweeney...

Substitute for Luxardo aperitivo: Aperol? or Select?

missing "hope" -- I hope you enjoy it

"NASA biplanes usher in a brave new world of low-velocity low-altitude aviation"

700 disqualified drivers getting free ‘rehab’ to regain permits More than 700 dis­qual­i­fied dri­vers across Trinidad and To­ba­go will be giv­en a sec­ond chance to re­gain their per­mit.

No words!
#motonormativity
www.guardian.co.tt/news/700-dis...

Excerpt from linked-to post: Text reads: First, the authors write that “Tol (2017) estimates that the private benefit of carbon is large relative to the social cost.” This paper was never published in a peer-reviewed journal and is therefore not admissible by the rules of the US government. The paper was peer-reviewed and rejected, because my private benefit is an average whereas the social cost is a marginal. The two cannot be compared (unless you make a ridiculous assumption about linearity). I still hope to fix the paper one day. As it stands, however, the comparison is wrong.

Good post by @richardtol.bsky.social -- a robust explanation of three of what appear to be many misinterpretations of cited papers in the recent Department of Energy "critical review".
This bit feels particularly admirable:

richardtol.substack.com/p/is-climate...