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Climate scientist Jeff Masters explains how our new Energy Secretary Chris Wright is using numbers selectively plucked from IPCC reports to mislead Americans about climate change.

How to deny climate change usi...



The best deal in DC. Not only did I save $50, but I got to read my book.



Yemen nearly hit an American F-35 fighter with a surface-to-air missile during Operation Rough Rider. The incident raised panic in Washington regarding the vulnerability of "advanced" US fighters to modern air defense system.

The near miss between the US F-35 by the Ansar Allah SAM raises questions about the effectiveness of US air operations against more sophisticated adversaries.

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#usa #yemen #technology

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George Russell’s Top-5 Streak Shattered: Struggles, Disappointment, and Monaco Hopes byteseu.com/1023667/ #Monaco


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Oooof. Those direct air capture machines built by Climeworks in Iceland, to pull carbon dioxide out of the air? Turns out ... they have generated more CO2 than they have captured.

Climeworks’ capture fails to c...

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in reply to Stephen Gentle

So the first problem wouldn’t be an issue if you build the plant somewhere that is already 100% renewable powered *and* has a huge renewable energy surplus on top of that. But if they can’t solve the second problem it’s not worth ever doing.
in reply to Stephen Gentle

Correct. At least for now it’s way better to spend the money on reducing emissions (for example by insulating houses or adding wind turbines) rather than expensively capturing the CO2 after it’s been released.
Building experimental capture plant may be a worthwhile investment for the long term future, but pretending that it’s a sensible solution right now is close to fraudulent.


If nobody visit, is it really a "destination"? dailypassport.com/forbidden-de…


🇦🇲 Armenia: KAN Issues Apology Over Comments Made by Commentators During Semi-Final Two byteseu.com/1023665/ #Armenia #RepublicOfArmenia


Historically low power demand on the New England grid. Why? Rooftop solar.

New England grid demand hits r...

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Following up the article on “Australian scientists” who have discovered we like remote work, apparently written up by a named journalist at The Farmingdale Observer. Farmingdale is a place, it’s had a local newspaper since 1963 noted by the Library of Congress.

This is the actual Farmingdale Observer.

issuu.com/antoncommunitynewspa…

The Farmingdale Observer from yesterday is a different beast. It’s a news aggregating website. This regurgitated article seems to have started life on The Conversation, the journalist doesn’t seem to exist anywhere online, the actual research was distorted, but traffic flowed trustingly from here to the website. Winning!

It’s clever but also dumb content farming and this is how we learn to fall for things, over and over, harmlessly and near-enoughish, until it’s not.

in reply to Kate Bowles

To be clear, there was an Australian study. There were Australian social scientists. Their own research study was on an adjacent topic (exercise and nutrition), and the article they wrote cited research from around the world on remote work generally. It was published in March last year.

Send your clicks their way, and trebuchet The Farmingnonsense Observer into the sea.

theconversation.com/working-fr…



From Project Gutenberg:

The Old Roman World : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.

by John Lord

Get it at: gutenberg.org/ebooks/6839



Turkey’s same old habit of punching above its weight? Erdogan awkwardly holds Macron’s finger, stops him byteseu.com/1023661/ #Turkey


Mosaic of daily #Arctic sea-ice extent anomalies over the last four decades or so. Another way of visualizing the long-term trend.

Graphic from zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-ice-fi…



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These two came after me hard when my book was published last year. Do you see why? "We are not on track for catastrophic warming at the end of this century." (We are on track for approx 3C of heating by 2100, which @glenpeters.bsky.social &…



Israel begins extensive Gaza ground operation after intense air strikes kill more than 100 overnight byteseu.com/1023659/ #Israel