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🚨 JUST PUBLISHED: CARBON BRIEF’S #COP30 SUMMARY 🚨

It's an EPIC 20,000 words of top-notch, plain-english reporting…

–Global mutirão
–Adaptation finance
–Fossil-fuel roadmap
–China
+Much more

Very proud of team CB for getting this out so fast

www.carbonbrief.org/...

I'm really glad renewable technology development doesn't depend on the COP negotiations.

Petrostates, fossil fuel companies, and their lackeys can sabotage diplomacy, but it's becoming increasingly transparent what they do is simply evil, while we will ditch fossil fuels anyway.

I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.

The Facts Are In: You Shouldn't Worry About EV Battery Replacements New research shows that it's extremely uncommon to have to replace a modern electric car's battery.

New research shows that it's extremely uncommon to have to replace a modern electric car's battery.

insideevs.com/news/779210/...

TBH, it's clear he means electricity, and that's true

A digital drawing of one of those drawing tutorials that says 'don't do this, do this.' The drawing is of an almost naked middle-aged man doing a flying kick. The 'Don't do this' one has a bunch of areas circled and a cross under it. The 'Do this' one is exactly the same but without the circles and a tick instead of a cross. The text reads 'Needlessly adding red circles will ruin your art' and a smaller bit of text at the bottom reads 'Bonus tip! Add a tick under all your art so people think you did it right.'

#3157 A helpful tutorial

Optical Character Recognition, automatic picture to text

Winter tightens its hold in Lapland. At the moment -28.3 °C in Savukoski Tulppio with > 20 cm of snow. The coldest so far this winter in Finland.

However, much like in 2023, large parts of the northern hemisphere are unusually warm again (except Fennoscandia).

(now, if i had bothered to open the link before commenting, i would have seen that the author made this point near the end, and avoided writing altogether 😅)

Would argue that the media is skewed towards the unexpected and untimely deaths, and I'd agree this is indeed the newsworthy part, unless one is covering the improvement in medicine

I'd assume it is just an artifact to convey volume by keeping the density per year constant

ChatGPT violated copyright law by ‘learning’ from song lyrics, German court rules OpenAI ordered to pay undisclosed damages for training its language models on artists’ work without permission

We didn't plagiarize, you made us plagiarize by asking questions to which we stole the answers.

"Because its output is generated by users of the chatbot via their prompts, OpenAI said, they were the ones who should be held legally liable for it – an argument rejected by the court."

NewPipe - a free YouTube client

This might help newpipe.net

Text statung: The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. ... A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. ... But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socio-economic unfairness.

This was famously stated by a character in a novel by terry pratchett

Electric toyota.

Solving solid state cells in 6 months, since 2013

In the spirit of "less noise, less pollution, less fossil fuels" he used a knife rather than a gun

California alone produces a third of all the food America eats. So this is a lie.

But let’s break down the food produced by the red states:

Guess what percent is harvested by people from Latin America?

Truck of menthos hitting the cart

Beer belly

“People don’t want energy; they want hot showers and cold beer.” This is what Amory Lovins once said and so true.

Most primary energy we use is wasted in converting heat to work. We don’t have to replace all primary energy - we only need to deliver the energy services more efficiently.

"Sir, climate change will have more people faint in front of you"

"Fightingcllimate change is now a priority. MAGA!"

As effective as his infamous submarine to save the kids in the cave

Nature suggests you use their "Manuscript Adviser" bot to get advice before submitting

I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:

Maybe you should buy less candles

Ha sempre fatto caldo.

Nobel peace prize fast approaching

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CO2 seasonality indicates origins of post‐Pinatubo sink An enhanced carbon sink of ∼2PgC/yr was observed following the Mount Pinatubo eruption. In this study we used a biogeochemical model (CASA) linked to an atmospheric tracer model (MATCH) with interann...

I was also very surprised. I checked a little bit, and it seems like the primary effect is the drop in temperature (sulphur reflection of light). This drop in temperature enables sinks to absorb more CO2 (oceans) -- thus TEMPORARILY hiding it away.

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Nice. I just assumed the Pinatubo eruption caused a drop in temperature due to the change of the climate forcing due to sulphur, but it could not affect the CO2 level itself (that would *increase*).

But I've now skimmed that it does actually have secondary, temporary effects on it.

Very cool.

Per chi fosse interessato, ho scritto un articolo sull’impatto dell’intelligenza artificiale in medicina, soprattutto in oncologia. Su Le Scienze di Novembre.