AI: IBM study on AI job impacts
IBM study says 40% of global workforce will need to adopt AI skills or be replaced by workers who know AI.
Climate: Study proposes a universal carbon tax based on income
The ClimateCrisis community proposes a new tax on investment income, not on your actual carbon emissions.
Climate, Aviation: EU carbon emission rules for aviation
Cutting emissions from planes and ships: EU actions explained | News | European Parliament (europa.eu) The EU says it will cut total emissions by 55% from 1990 levels, within 7…
AI: Microsoft’s Start/Travel page has more crazy AI generated fake news articles
Oops, they did it again - Microsoft publishes fake AI news articles.
Climate: The real cause of the Maui fires?
Professor of Atmospheric Sciences says Maui fires caused by common down slope wind event, nothing to do with climate change.
Climate: Maui water system had no backup power generators?
Apparently Maui had no backup power systems for their water pumps. Hmmmm.
Climate, Aviation: We need to ban all air travel
We need to ban air travel, says a writer (but I think he intended this as humor). An elitist, he's got quite a global travel history.
Demographics: Another fertility rate chart
Additional background on the explosion in college enrollment, and the role U.S. wars had in the enrollment patterns.
EVs: Ford CEO sees first hand that EV charging is a hurdle
He notes that charging is a problem, sometimes because the chargers are all in use, or that he could not charge at his hotel, and that at one charging station,…
Economy: Do people have too much money?
People have way too much money: 87% of teens have an iPhone. And think Android phones are just for old people.