If it's willing and able to do this, I don't understand why CA has said it can't do anything about autobesity? (Can't find recent post/article about this at the moment)
Happy #CleanAirDay! The top 6 counties with the worst air quality in the country are all in California. Cars, trucks, and freight locomotives are top sources of ozone precursors, so let's electrify our railways and shift traffic from cars and trucks onto clean electric trains!
Fun fact: Meta's recently released climate report shows that it consumed 15.3 TWh of energy in 2023 - A 6.2x increase from 2017 (increase in monthly active users was ~1.6x) - More in 2023 than the entire electrical demand of Kenya in the same year, a country with a population of 54m
If robots watch your kids, walk your dog, make you dinner, and take care of other deeply human experiences, you can spend all your time being a dick online and/or getting high. Sort of like in Wall-E, where they show how fulfilled the humans are.
They are relics of the Gondwana age but five years after Australia’s black summer these trees are dying a ‘long, slow death’
Rainforest trees at Nightcap national park have not evolved to deal with bushfires, leaving the landscape vulnerable for years after major burns Counting the cost of Australia’s summer of dread Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Thousands of years of accumulated leaf fall makes the ground bounce like a mattress underfoot and, high above, rainforest coachwood trees form a dense canopy that dresses the understory in permanent shade. Some of the unique plants in this rainforest can trace their lineage back 40 or 50m years when the Gondwana supercontinent was breaking apart and Australia was detaching itself from what is now Antarctica. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...
Climate change is increasing overlap between northern and southern hemisphere fire seasons, and stretching resources.
Changing global fire regimes including extended fire seasons due to climate change may increase the co-occurrence of high-impact fires that overwhelm national fire suppression capacities. These shifts...
Aviation emissions are booming. With climate targets looming, you would expect governments to act. And yet they don't - if anything they work to make sure that emissions increase even further. But why? The answer is in this new article, which I was honoured to help with doi.org/10.1080/0969...
“Hell is other people.” — Jean-Paul Sartre. “Traffic is other people.” — most drivers. #YouAREtraffic
