They are not going to be fooled into forgetting about those interests by the right combination of words! There is no magical messaging or phrasing, no "framing," that is going to distract them from their material interests! They are not open to persuasion on this matter!
and to clarify, when I say "check for" I mean both prospectively before implementation "will this break anything?", and also retrospective evaluation after implementation to see "did we break anything?"
What processes are out there to check for side effects and unintended consequences for human health, ecosystems, society, etc? Thinking about everything from rainfall patterns to changes in ground level air pollution to astronomy...
JFC. European gas prices just surged 50%.
Has it occurred to anybody that Trumps Iranian war ploy greatly benefits his friends in the domestic US oil and gas production industry? Fracked oil and gas requires high prices to be economic, and at current prices it's barely profitable, if that.
Those days when you and a couple of your favorite collaborators are just chatting and stumble on an idea so great you cancel all your meetings and hash something out on a white board for hours
300k customers (nearly a million people) have lost power in Massachusetts. Stay warm, folks.
Is it something else? Screenshot from www.iso-ne.com
#energysky Actual real good faith question here. Why are electricity prices on ISONE during this blizzard so much cheaper than the one a few weeks ago? Is the fact that it's warmer than last time making gas demand, and therefore prices cheaper, thus lowering electricity prices? Is it NECEC?
As expected @universalhub.com
There is a kind of literal-mindedness which can be helpful in the production scientific research, but which is damaging in public communication that is supposed to educate human imagination and ignite desire for social collaboration against threats.
1.5/2
This seems bad
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Did you know? Climate change is bad for humans!
I am so tired
Air pollution from burning fossil fuels causes 100,000 to 200,000 avoidable American deaths per year. At the EPA's statistical value of life of $10 million, these deaths cost America $1 to $2 trillion per year, every year. These costs far outweigh the costs of transitioning off of fossil fuels.
Renewable energy is public health. www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🛟 | #energysky
No David, I’m engaging in good faith intellectual inquiry, nay, a philosophical exploration, of the merits of all other possible counterarguments with the mere intent of really ensuring that all possible sides of this debate get a proper hearing 😬
This @volts.wtf pod is so good I listened twice! However I realized it has one fatal flaw. They fail to ask the critical question - what if the reactionary centrists are right?
/satire
I regret to inform you that “1979” by Smashing Pumpkins was released in 1996, which is now 30 years ago. Meaning a similar song released in 2026 would be called “2009”
@volts.wtf has done it again. This is brilliant. And I wish more renewable energy types would realize that politics is a determinant of their success or failure… podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...
As the world quickly approaches 1.5C, researchers have a call in Nature to rethink the utility of temperature targets – and to potentially replace them with more actionable and precise targets around clean energy:
This isn't bad.. but yeah, I remember a more designed-up version of this and I swear it had oil...
There was an infographic floating around ages ago comparing volumes of extraction of different types of resources. Was there one that compared rare earths to fossil fuels? I found this one for metals... elements.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/u... #energysky
Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out.
As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.
Here's what happened:
i post this every september
