Tag Archives: climate change
Onward and spillward
‘The Lunacy Of Rebuilding In Disaster-Prone Areas’, Noema, April 25, 2024: In the months after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans proposed a flood control program unlike any other in U.S. history. Developed by the Bring New Orleans Back Commission, a diverse group … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, climate models, environment ministry, glacial lake outburst flood, Hurricane Katrina, India Meteorological Department, rainfall, Sikkim, South Lhonak, spillway, Teesta-3 dam
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Does science have trouble seeing governments?
From ‘Energy megaproject in Chile threatens the world’s largest telescopes’, Science, January 10, 2025: The AES project would occupy several sites totaling 3000 hectares, and the plants making hydrogen and ammonia with renewable energy would be sited just 5 kilometers from … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Scicomm, Science
Tagged carbon credits, carbon trading, Cerro Armazones, Cerro Paranal, Chile, climate change, European Southern Observatory, Extremely Large Telescope, green hydrogen, renewable energy, Science journal, SpaceX Starlink, Thirty Metre Telescope, Very Large Telescope
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Tamil Nadu’s lukewarm heatwave policy
The policy is only for heatwaves, and if it doesn’t expand in future to include the state’s own responsibility, Tamil Nadu will miss the forest for the trees. Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, comorbidities, COVID-19 pandemic, heatwave, hyperthermia, Integrated Health Information Platform, National Programme on Climate Change and Human Health, State Disaster Response Fund, Tamil Nadu
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Did we see the conspiracies coming?
Tweets like this seem on point… … but I’ve started to wonder if we’re missing something in the course of expressing opinions about what we thought climate deniers would say and what they’re actually saying. That is, we expected to … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, climate denialism, us versus them
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A tale of two myopias, climate change and the present participle
The Assam floods are going on. One day, they will stop. The water will subside in many parts of the state but the things that caused the floods will continue to work, ceaselessly, and will cause them to occur again next … Continue reading
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Tagged Assam floods, climate change, climate journalism, Philip Warren Anderson, present participle
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Climate change, like quantum physics, will strain language
One of the defining features of quantum mechanics is that it shows up human language, and thought supported by that language, to be insufficient and limited. Many of the most popular languages of the world, including Tamil, Hindi and English, … Continue reading
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Tagged causality, chaos theory, climate change, emergent phenomena, language, logograms, quantum entanglement, superposition
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The Nobel Prize, its men and climate change
The sciences part of this year’s Nobel Prize announcements have concluded. These are the new laureates: Physics – Syukuro Manabe 🇯🇵 🇺🇸, Klaus Hasselmann 🇩🇪 and Giorgio Parisi 🇮🇹 Chemistry – Benjamin List 🇩🇪 and David W.C. MacMillan 🇬🇧 Medicine/physiology … Continue reading
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Tagged Benjamin List, climate change, David WC MacMillan, fertility discrimination, gender stratification, Nobel Prizes
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On the NASEM report on solar geoengineering
A top scientific body in the US has asked the government to fund solar geoengineering research in a bid to help researchers and policymakers know the fullest extent of their options to help the US deal with climate change. Solar … Continue reading
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Tagged cirrus cloud thinning, climate change, climate geoengineering, Joe Biden, marine cloud brightening, Mount Pinatubo, NASEM, Rob Bellamy, solar geoengineering, stratospheric aerosol injection
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Christopher Nolan’s explosion
In May, Total Film reported that the production team of Tenet, led by director Christopher Nolan, found that using a second-hand Boeing 747 was better than recreating a scene involving an exploding plane with miniatures and CGI. I’m not clear … Continue reading
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Tagged AMD, AMD FirePro, carbon credits, carbon emissions, CGI, Christopher Nolan, climate change, Furmark benchmark, fx, GPU, graphics processing units, Interstellar, negative externalities, Nvidia, Nvidia Quadro, One Health, special effects, Tenet
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