I keep getting emails advertising services that will use AI to do your literature review for you. This completely misunderstands the purpose of a literature review. And literature. 1/

The argument I have been making is that data center developers should pay for enough renewables for their own energy AND the entire community they infiltrate. 100% free electricity for everyone. Throw in heat pumps for everyone for good measure.

ClimateBook@climatebook.bsky.social · last mo.

for the cost of the fossil gas, and not push up costs on the grid, but on-site burning has its own pollution problems. The only answer is to require data centre developers to pay for enough new renewables to supply their energy needs. They are not doing that.

I am inexplicably jealous that my religious tradition does not include this level of drama and I was already feeling resentful because the hats the bishops get to wear are fire.

Claire Willett@clairewillett.bsky.social · last mo.

THE VATICAN IS CALLING IT A SCHISM I REPEAT HOUSTON, WE HAVE A SCHISM

I am begging journalists to ask why Europe has more heat deaths per capita than other continents . . . maybe it has something to do with AC?

Channel 4 News@channel4news.bsky.social · 2mo ago

UK cannot ‘air con its way’ out of this heatwave says Professor www.channel4.com/news/uk-cann...

Extreme temperatures kill more people than any other weather or climate related disaster and there is absolutely no reason why old buildings can't be retrofitted for AC.

Doc Benway@docbenway.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This notion that Europe, and only Europe, has old buildings is ridiculous obviously. But even if we grant that you for some reason cannot install a window unit, and for some reason cannot install central AC, why aren’t you installing a floor unit?

Ok, awards from NSF and most agencies have slowed to a trickle. Over the next three years there is going to a huge drop in workforce development.

Science Magazine@science.org · 2mo ago

Exclusive: The National Science Foundation is trimming this year’s budgets for hundreds of its traditional basic science programs by roughly 20% to 30%, even though its overall budget is down just 3%. https://scim.ag/4xY2KCm

It takes me a few months to write a solid proposal and, as frustrating as it is when the proposal isn’t funded, there is an intellectual benefit that comes from the social activity of putting ideas together with my collaborators. You short circuit learning when AI writes the proposal for you.

This is a common issue in sea defenses. If you armor your coast, you lose your beaches and this tradeoff is not always well articulated to communities making decisions.

NC towns want to protect their beaches. They may do it the wrong way | Opinion

As coastal communities face growing pressure from storms, erosion, and rising seas, Ocean Isle Beach offers a cautionary example.

newsobserver.com

Ok, so I'm at a sea level rise workshop and the practitioners are like if you are scientist, for the love of god stop stop telling the press that people that live in a low lying area have to move. You aren't helping.

Let’s talk about heat pumps and why adoption in many parts of the US has been slow compared to Europe and elsewhere. 1/

The academic progression: Assistant prof: Everybody judges you and treats you like a junior colleague that doesn’t know anything. Associate prof:Everybody still judges you but you don't get the benefit of the doubt from being early career. Full prof: Everyone is surprised you aren’t dead yet.

There is a tradition of journalists and climate scientists flying into places—and New Orleans—seems to be a favorite— and proclaiming that disaster is looming and everyone must leave. 1/

skooks@skookses.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The op-ed's strongest point is that New Orleans is far from the only place in the world threatened by climate change. Yet somehow we are the only place that the popular punditry seems eager to abandon. But, again, the study was specifically about Louisiana. 2/3

Told the 13 yr old that the only social media he is allowed is LinkedIn. That ought to put him off social media . . . or he will become a "thought leader" and "motivational speaker" with top 3 three lists of How to Improve your Productivity.

I was asked to teach a large intro climate class and have been behind in my prep all year. I finally read the textbook chapter on climate solutions and the book mentions the “tragedy of the commons” without context about the racist/eugenics connection (or actual research in that area).

The Tragedy of "The Tragedy of the Commons"

The man who wrote one of environmentalism’s most-cited essays was a racist, eugenicist, nativist and Islamaphobe—plus his argument was wrong

scientificamerican.com

This is an interesting, if provocative perspective. I agree with most of what the authors say except I view the paradigm they advocate as more of a “yes and” rather than a replacement for our current understanding. 1/

Nature Geoscience@natgeosci.nature.com · 4mo ago

⚒️ Perspective: A new paradigm for understanding the Earth's marine ice sheets www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Guys, they literally wheeled out the tv so we could all watch the launch in class and then we had to conjugate verbs as the teacher quietly cried in the hall. And we had just started to get over some of the shit that went down in The Neverending Story.

Dr. Wendy Bohon@drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I can’t watch launches. 🚀 I am of the Challenger generation. The trauma is real.

There is this whole academic debate going on about the tradeoffs of mitigating methane vs carbon dioxide which has been going on for decades and would be way more compelling if, you know, we were actually doing the mitigating and talking about tradeoffs in actual implementation.

There is a growing body of literature that points to serious learning issues when students use AI. Part of the problem is that students don't retain information, but also students fail to recognize that they have learning and retention issues.

I saw a bumper sticker that said "if you voted for Biden you owe me gas money" and I have so many questions

Just going to put this out there. Where I live the goal of rooftop solar is to add about 5 MW of capacity. Utility scale can add 100s of MW. The data center oracle is building will use 1.4 GW of power.

Contrary to this thread, individual actions are not and have never been in conflict with community centered actions. Buying an EV, installing a heat pump, putting up solar panels are all great . . . if you have the money. Good luck doing any of that if you are a renter.

Michael Grunwald@mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 5mo ago

One complaint I'm seeing a lot about my latest @nytimes.com piece is that I attacked a straw man, that enviros never tell us not to worry about our individual actions. OK then! Here's a 🧵with some of my favorite examples.

I think this thread is a bit unfair. Most of these articles are simply not saying individual actions don't matter—just that they're not enough on their own.

Michael Grunwald@mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 5mo ago

One complaint I'm seeing a lot about my latest @nytimes.com piece is that I attacked a straw man, that enviros never tell us not to worry about our individual actions. OK then! Here's a 🧵with some of my favorite examples.

Seeing lots of academics justify using AI in writing and I can’t express in words how much I don’t want to be asked to review your AI generated slop.

Everything about this is right, but my experience is that students are equally terrified of their AI future.

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Too many students are convinced by their own universities, by some of their teachers and professors, and by the AI companies themselves that ‘using ai to study is getting ahead of the game’ But the process they seek to get ahead of is the point.

Most climate solutions are local, nitty gritty decisions and not international treaties or tech revolutions. I suspect this lack of glamor is how we end up with bonkers shit like “launch mirrors into space to reflect sunlight” or “build a giant wall around the Antarctic ice sheet”.

This year . . . Econ bro: I need to hire econ and finance bros for climate risk. Me: Pretty sure you need a climate scientist or an engineer on your team. Econ bro: Good point. Let's get an AI agent to feed the econ bro climate data because nothing could go wrong with that. Me: Arrghhhhh.

Jeremy Bassis@bassisjeremy.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Last year . . . Econ bro: I need to hire an econ or finance bro for climate risk. Me: Umm, I think you need a climate scientist or at least an engineer Econ bro: I need a cost benefit analysis Me: You know engineers invented cost benefit analysis, right?

Last year . . . Econ bro: I need to hire an econ or finance bro for climate risk. Me: Umm, I think you need a climate scientist or at least an engineer Econ bro: I need a cost benefit analysis Me: You know engineers invented cost benefit analysis, right?

I am so fucking tired of being told to "pivot" from climate research. The climate didn't stop changing because of an election. The impacts of climate change didn't slow because of a change in funding priorities.

New policy for academic publishing. Authors, reviewers and editors need to disclose AI use under both author contributions and conflicts of interest. Did you use AI to help write your paper or make figures. Disclose.