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Michael I. Westphal

@peacewestphalia.bsky.social

Climate change, cycling, cocktails, and the Oxford comma. Westphal in a non-Westphalian world. Head of Science, IPCC Working Group III TSU; Adjunct Prof, Georgetown University.

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David Zipper@davidzipper.bsky.social · 5mo ago

"Waymo has told advocates that expecting it to respect bike lanes is 'too high a bar' because customers expect to be dropped off in them." To be crystal clear, it's illegal for a car to be in a bike lane. It doesn't matter what Waymo's customers expect; the company shouldn't be doing it.

Waymo Is Not In The 'Vision Zero' Toolbox: Data - Streetsblog New York City

At least two of the cities where Waymo operates have not experienced declines in traffic-related injuries and deaths.

nyc.streetsblog.org

Harvey J. Miller@mobileharv.bsky.social · 6mo ago

China is on the cusp of becoming the world’s biggest public funder of research, according to a forecast by US academics, as stalled growth in government investment in the United States coincides with consistent rises in spending by the Chinese authorities.

China could be the world’s biggest public funder of science within two years

Forecast by science-policy researchers raises questions about where the epicentre of global research will shift to in the coming decade.

nature.com

Gabriel Zucman@gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 10mo ago

It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US This view is wrong A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵

Michael I. Westphal@peacewestphalia.bsky.social · last yr.

Congratulations to all Coordinating Lead Authors, Lead Authors, and Review Editors for the @ipcc.bsky.social Seventh Assessment Report.

Glen Peters@glenpeters.bsky.social · last yr.

Honoured to be Coordinating Lead Author (CLA) in IPCC AR7 Chapter 2 on "Past and current anthropogenic emissions and their drivers" And quite happy with the author list... This will be a great team! Check out the author lists here, for all WGs: apps.ipcc.ch/report/autho...

McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · last yr.

"Reducing our dependence on whales as an energy source will send us sliding down the slippery, spermaceti-lubricated slope to socialism. If we give up whaling, what will those lackwits come for next? Will I have to surrender my peg leg for a titanium prosthetic?"

I’m Captain Ahab and I Say We Must Never Transition Away from a Whale-Based Energy Industry

When I heard that the globalist oligarchs and fat cats in the Washington marshland were conspiring to invest in alternative, non-whale-based energy...

buff.ly

Dr. Julia K. Baum@baumlab.bsky.social · last yr.

Attention Climate Solutions Scholars! @uvic.ca seeks its next Canada Excellence Research Chair 🇨🇦: www.uvic.ca/research-inn... You: world class scholar, looking to make a move Us: #5 in world for climate action, collegial, stunning location (B.C.) w award-winning climate policy Pls share widely!

Canada Excellence Research Chair - University of Victoria - University of Victoria

Find information about applying to be Canada Excellence Research Chair at the University of Victoria

uvic.ca

Justin Wolfers@justinwolfers.bsky.social · last yr.

Firing the BLS Commissioner — the wonk in charge of the statisticians who track economic reality — is an authoritarian four alarm fire. It will also backfire: You can't bend economic reality, but you can break the trust of markets. And biased data yields worse policy.

Helen Czerski@helenczerski.bsky.social · last yr.

Reading Rebecca Solnit & I love this: ""The remains of the swamp grass, the ferns ... turned into coal. And to this cemetery we intend to go, drag the dead out of their tombs, and force them to work for us." That language frames it as a zombie movie, a horror story, the dead come back to haunt us."

"The remains of the swamp grass, the ferns, the horsetails rotted under the layers of sand and clay and the clay, became black, and turned into coal. And to this cemetery we intend to go, drag the dead out of their tombs, and force them to work for us." That language frames it as a zombie movie, a horror story, the dead come back to haunt us, in this case with their carbon.
James Ball@jamesrball.com · last yr.

Bizarre discussion on the radio likening air condition to passive smoking because it accounts for 3% of CO2 emissions. But: we don’t moralise turning heating on in winter, and heating accounts for 15% of emissions. If aircon is intrinsically immoral, so are radiators.

Chris Bataille@chrisbataille.bsky.social · last yr.

I've seen a lot of people writing recently that #netzero is dead. While #netzero may have developed a political dimension, the concept is fundamentally scientific; the world will keep warming until our net additions of CO2 & then GHGs fall to zero & possibly negative given earthsystem feedbacks.

Bob Kopp@bobkopp.net · last yr.

There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵