Corporate climate strategies, climate communications. Co-Founder Oxford Climate Journalism Network / Global Managing Partner Sustainable Business Practice, Brunswick Group / Advisor UNFCCC / Prior: Global COO Condé Nast / Guardian / Die Zeit
“With much of the content available online now exhausted - and increasingly polluted with poor-quality, AI-generated writing - AI labs are turning to uncorrupted texts published pre-2022.” www.news.com.au/technology/o...
AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare booksIf you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.www.news.com.auIf Burnham’s government was serious about the below, it would be clear about not issuing any new permits for extracting North Sea oil or gas. By now, climate is like Brexit: you have to be honest on where you stand - or you will be washed out of office in no time. www.gov.uk/government/n...
Joint Statement by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Kingdom of Spain on Wildfires and Action on Climate ChangeThe UK and Spain agreed that the climate crisis is an urgent policy priority and committed to co-leading the green transition, strengthening clean energy cooperation and advancing international climat...www.gov.ukMusk trashing the sky.
The New York TimesMore space debris is raining down on Earth than ever before — one effect of governments and companies like SpaceX racing to the skies. Last year, the U.S. issued alerts for nearly 820 objects entering Earth’s atmosphere, compared to 110 objects a decade ago. nyti.ms/4fM4whG
“In this regard, both Ministers reaffirm their support for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCCC” www.gov.uk/government/n...
Joint Statement by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Kingdom of Spain on Wildfires and Action on Climate ChangeThe UK and Spain agreed that the climate crisis is an urgent policy priority and committed to co-leading the green transition, strengthening clean energy cooperation and advancing international climat...www.gov.ukThe growing intermittency of…conventional nuclear energy. www.reuters.com/business/ene...
Low Danube river levels force Romania to shut down both of its nuclear power reactorsRomania will shut down its second nuclear reactor on the Danube river, the energy ministry said on Wednesday, three days after decades-low river levels forced it to shut down the first.www.reuters.comClimate doom-ism is surrender. Cynicism is obedience.
Sander van der LindenNew paper @pnas.org "Inoculation Against Climate Doom"-we show in a social media simulator that cognitive inoculation improves discernment of doom stories across the political aisle & shifts behavior, incl less sharing of doom. Doom also predicts less climate action. 👉 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
The Emily Wilson…who wrote the best modern translation of Homer’s Odyssey.
EMILY WILSONI wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
I hope the UK’s Conservative Party and Reform Party keep misreading the public’s concerns over global warming well into the next election cycle.
YouGovWhat do people in 7 countries see as the biggest global threats? France: Climate change: 48% UK: Climate change: 35% Canada: Climate change: 31% Poland: Military attack: 43% USA: Political extremism: 39% Germany: Mass migration: 36% Australia: Religious terrorism: 31% yougov.com/en-gb/articl...
The rage that is building in me. I doubt I am alone with this change of sentiment. The rage.
Dr. Prakash Kashwan"The number of people evacuated in France and Spain has now passed 250,000...Both countries are facing unprecedented blazes that are spreading unchecked despite the efforts of many hundreds of firefighters backed by water-dropping aircraft." www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Serial heatwaves, unprecedented leaps between old and new temperature extremes, mass evacuations - and speechless governments. Because the words they would have to say in their second sentences are “fossil fuels”. And they mostly just cannot. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
France and Spain race to control wildfires as more than 250,000 evacuated – liveMeanwhile, in the UK, a blaze in the Cairngorms national park has been described as ‘very serious’ by Scotland’s first ministerwww.theguardian.comAus der Reihe “Für wen arbeitet Frau Reiche im Hauptberuf?”, Folge 47:
tazWirtschaftsministerin Katherina Reiche sorgt dafür, dass der Ausbau der Erneuerbaren einen Rückschritt erfährt. Jetzt ist die Windkraft dran.
