How Energy Transition Models Go Wrong
Gail Tvergberg explains why oil prices are likely to remain be lower than full costs, and how that undermines the move to cleaner energy.
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The Politics of ‘Follow the Science’
How the ralllying cry of “Follow the science” is looking more and more like sloganeernig as opposed to best practice.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 6/22/2021
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Read more...‘Managed Retreat’ from Climate Disasters Can Reinvent Cities So They’re Better for Everyone – and Avoid More Flooding, Heat and Fires
Managed retreat is a promising way to deal with rising seas…except it requires things we’re bad at, like planning and cooperation.
Read more...Links 6/22/2021
Is Another Military Coup Brewing in Peru, After Historic Electoral Victory for Leftist Candidate?
The threat should not be taken lightly, especially given Peru’s long history of coups d’états.
Read more...The Bullshit Economy: How Amazon Sidewalk Steals Your Bandwidth
How Amazon’s Sidewalk feature enhances their products at customers’ expense.
Read more...Decade Of Chaos Could Send Oil To $130 Per Barrel
Oil mavens are stymied at guessing what the commodity’s price trajectory might be.
Read more...Mindat: The Wikipedia for Minerologists, Miners, and “Rock Hounds” (Except Not)
Citizen science goes unreward by giant monopolists Wikipedia and Google.
Read more...Links 6/21/2021
How the Covid Pandemic Could Save Us
The Covid pandemic has created a hinge moment of change, in which governments and citizens have demonstrated their ability to undertake reforms which would have been impossible before the pandemic.
Read more...Summer Rerun: The Victory of Privilege
Privilege went from an idea discussed by a few activists to a mainstream concept. How does the idea work in practice? What is its history?
Read more...The Pandemic Is Us (But Now Mostly Them)
The pandemic is largely to be over in the Global North, at least among the vaccinated…or so it seems.
Read more...Fun with DIY Box Fans (and Protection from Covid through Filtration and Better Ventilation)
If you can’t afford a fancy air purifier, here is a low-cost DIY alternative.
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