Our World in Data
Why did renewables become so cheap so fast? And what can we do to use this global opportunity for green…
20+ min · · Fossil fuels dominate the global power supply because until very recently electricity from fossil fuels was far cheaper than electricity from renewables. This has dramatically changed within the last… · Shared by 669, including Bjorn Larsen, Jelmer Mommers, Vala Afshar, Tim, Noah Smith, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Steve Case, Max Roser, Paul Krugman, Ward Plunet, Pippa Malmgren, Tom Connor, Hannah Ritchie, Amy Harder, Avinash Kaushik, Claus Wilke
World Economic Forum
Investing in renewable energy can help mitigate an energy crisis
2 min · · The global transition to renewable energy is a global imperative that will cost trillions. Private capital must play a role — but it needs data to do so. · Shared by 47, including Tim, Gerd Leonhard, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯
Tomas Pueyo
Why Is Pakistan Drowning and China Drying?
6 min · · Pakistan is flooding: 50M people impacted. 1M houses washed away. 1/3 of the country under water. Meanwhile, China is suffering from the worst heatwave in its recorded history. Why? These 2 events are… · Shared by 280, including Tim
The Guardian
JP Morgan economists warn climate crisis is threat to human race
3 min · · Leaked report for world’s major fossil fuel financier says Earth is on unsustainable trajectory · Shared by 224, including Josep M. Ganyet, François-Oli Devaux, Liv 😷, Katja Evertz, SEO/BirdLife, Bill McKibben, sircharlsxavier, Ray Monk, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Matthias Lampe, Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine, Trey Tweets Into the Void, Tim, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, Jansnet
The Guardian
Microsoft Japan tested a four-day work week. Productivity jumped by 40%
2 min · · The experiment for the month of August led to more efficient meetings and happier workers who took less time off · Shared by 415, including Jakub Ferenc, Graham Brown-Martin, Johannes Lenz, Adam Singer, Christopher Lauer™, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, Gabriele, Joe Lencioni, Jay Acunzo, Vita Pictura, Tim, Bruce Lawson
The Guardian
This heatwave has eviscerated the idea that small changes can tackle extreme weather
4 min · · Dangerous heat will become the norm, even in the UK. Systems need to urgently change – and the silence needs to be broken, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot · Shared by 643, including James Murray, Nils Hitze, Damian Carrington, Tim, George Monbiot, Fräulein Tessa, @grzewap@mastodon.social, Dirk von Gehlen 🤷🏻♂️, Emily Johnston, Gerd Leonhard
BBC News (World)
The audacious PR plot that seeded doubt about climate change
8 min · · Thirty years ago, a bold plan was hatched to persuade people that climate change was not a problem. · Shared by 1237, including Brent Toderian, Katja Evertz, Tom Raftery, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, luis antónio santos, Christopher Mims 🤌, Mathew Ingram, John Cutler, Jay Rosen, Claudia Sommer, Colin Wright, Amy Webb 🤷🏻♀️, Reto Knutti, Svein Tveitdal, John Schwartz, Thomas Pleil, keithwilson@fediphilosophy.org on Mastodon 🦣, Hunter Lovins
The Economist
AI and the human future: Net positive
9 min · · Interest in technological revolutions has multiplied in recent decades, but this is not the first time in history. · Shared by 78, including Tim
The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand
War in Ukraine is pushing global acute hunger to the highest level in this century
5 min · · Grain and fertilizer shortages, higher shipping costs and a strong dollar are all pushing food prices up and increasing hunger in dozens of vulnerable countries. · Shared by 561, including Philanthropy News Digest, Tim
The Atlantic
This Is the War’s Decisive Moment
7 min · · The United States and its allies can tip the balance between a costly success and a calamity. · Shared by 87, including Nicolas Granatino🌻, Azeem Azhar, Tim, Florian Hanke 🍎, hakan
Quartz
The US labor shortage is the deserved outcome of a failure to value workers
3 min · · The best way to bring people back to work would be to make work better, putting the policies and practices in place to make sure that what happened to US workers in the pandemic never happens again. · Shared by 148, including Thomas Pleil, Tim
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Economist Jim O'Neill on Russia: "The West Will Decide on Putin's Bankruptcy"
8 min · · Jim O'Neill once coined the term BRIC to refer to the rapidly growing economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China. In an interview, he discusses why the Russia of Vladimir Putin has failed to live up… · Shared by 183, including Tim
Phys.org
Supermassive black holes put a brake on stellar births
2 min · · Black holes with masses equivalent to millions of suns do put a brake on the birth of new stars, say astronomers. Using machine learning and three state-of-the-art simulations to back up results from… · Shared by 40, including Tim, Dr. Ganapathi Pulipaka 🇺🇸
Phys.org
How artificial intelligence and big data can help preserve wildlife
4 min · · The field of animal ecology has entered the era of big data and the Internet of Things. Unprecedented amounts of data are now being collected on wildlife populations, thanks to sophisticated… · Shared by 277, including Carla Gentry 🎶, Christo Meid, Tim, Iain Brown, PhD, Kat M. Moss
climate.mit.edu
Why do we compare methane to carbon dioxide over a 100-year timeframe? Are we underrating the importance of methane emissions?
3 min · · June 28, 2021 Methane is a colorless, odorless gas that’s produced both by nature (such as in wetlands when plants decompose underwater) and in industry (for example, natural gas is mostly made of… · Shared by 3, including Tim
Quanta Magazine
Any Single Galaxy Reveals the Composition of an Entire Universe
4 min · · In computer simulations of possible universes, researchers have discovered that a neural network can infer the amount of matter in a whole universe by studying just one of its galaxies. · Shared by 225, including Chris Isak, Paul Graham, Mark Tabladillo PhD, Brian Ahier, Matteo Furia, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Tim