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“It’s pretty well known that in a typical year, private jets are responsible for about 2 percent of aviation emissions,” said Dan Rutherford, the group’s senior director of research and a co-author of the new report. “What we’ve done for the first time is, we’ve basically used flight trajectory data to break that out into the individual contributions of airports and countries.”

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The US Navy will no longer distribute certain satellite readings, a move that will leave forecasters without important insights into storms’ strength and structure.

What's going on is that the same microwave measuring instruments that are used to track hurricanes also are used to monitor sea ice, and they showed an ongoing loss of sea ice as a result of the warming caused by greenhouse gases that result from fossil fuel consumption. So the Trump administration decided to cut off access to make it harder to monitor sea ice.

 

The US Navy will no longer distribute certain satellite readings, a move that will leave forecasters without important insights into storms’ strength and structure.

What's going on is that the same microwave measurements that are used to track hurricanes also are used to monitor sea ice, and they showed an ongoing loss of sea ice as a result of the warming caused by greenhouse gases that result from fossil fuel consumption. So the Trump administration decided to cut off access to make it harder to monitor sea ice.

 

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“If insurance is no longer available, other financial services become unavailable too,” he wrote in a LinkedIn post that made headlines. “The economic value of entire regions — coastal, arid, wildfire-prone — will begin to vanish from financial ledgers,” he added. “Markets will reprice, rapidly and brutally.”

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

There is no need; the point is to create a riot so as to provide an excuse for a broader crackdown

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

They're worried that people might get organized enough to vote them out

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't treat his words has having any specific meaning; more indicating that his attention is on a topic

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Problem is that people think the chatbots are intelligent, and they're not, so recommendations which would seem absurd if they came from people get followed. They're very able to make mental health problems worse, and there are a lot of examples of this.

Normal people respond to addiction or mental illness of people they interact with in ways not designed to make things worse. That's not too much to ask of chatbots.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

IRA = US Inflation Reduction Act, a major piece of climate legislation

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Could also be some other device like an internet-connected coffee pot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

This kind of thing is sometimes an indication of a malware infection on your computer or another device on your LAN

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They're taking on the attitudes of the Trump administration which just announced:

We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city.

After which they pushed Senator Padilla out of the room for saying his name and trying to ask a question and then handcuffed him.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's a gift link. People with Javascript turned on dont hit the paywall

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It was only ever about states rights to enforce slavery.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

It was a partial phase-out of sale of new gas powered cars, taking effect in steps over a decade. 20% of new cars could still be plug-in hybrids, which burn gasoline when the battery runs out. No ban on cars people already own or restriction on used cars.

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