Climate: “We breached +1.5 C ten years ago”
And surprisingly, we are alive: We Breached The 1.5 °C Threshold Over 10 Years Ago, Study Warns 1.5 C is an arbitrary value, starting at an arbitrary point in time…
Environment: The effects of cattle on the land
Media and talking heads tell you that farming is evil-but the interviewed farmer is smarter than the media interviewer.
Climate: Surge in reports of 1,000 year rain fall events
What does a "1,000-year rain fall" or "1,000-year flood" event mean? Probably not what you think it means.
Demographics: S. Korean company to pay employees to have kids
S. Korea is in a very negative population growth curve and is desparate: A South Korean firm is offering to pay its workers $75,000 each time they have a baby
Trust in “experts” falls over past 4 years
Health care professions, including veterinary medicine, and engineers, are rated highly. After that, the ratings fell off a cliff.
Nope: Did Newsweek really find Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto?
A long time ago, Newsweek appears to have incorrectly targeted an unemployed 64 year old in SoCal as being Satoshi Nakamoto. Some updates.
Climate: To save the climate, we must stop eating
To save the climate, we need to discourage eating food, ban meat, dairy and rice, fast-food, ultra processed food and food delivery.
Drones: We need Remote ID for all birds ASAP
Goose found in flight control system of medical helicopter that crashed in Oklahoma last month, killing 3 (nbcnews.com)
Public health: “We didn’t take enough account of the economic cost of lockdown”
Really: Covid scientist Sir John Edmunds: ‘We didn’t take enough account of the economic cost of lockdown’ (telegraph.co.uk) The UK has been holding hearings on what happened (basically nothing worked…
Media, AI: 90% of newsrooms now using AI in some form
the survey revealed that 90 percent of newsrooms are already using some form of AI in news production, 80 percent in news distribution, and 75 percent in news gathering. News…