Re: [FRIAM] Bad news about the climate

People are rightly livid with the gas and electric utilities here in California, but the state is doing better than other states on renewables. More than half the grid is solar during the day. Large installations of batteries are in use and investments in offshore wind are expanding. From:

Re: [FRIAM] Bad news about the climate

I am convinced that in the next 30 years, there will be some massive geo-engineering projects to reverse the course of climate change. We can only hope that they will be well thought out. Harvard has a geoengineering program with a nice web page. I check it from time to time and it helps me feel a

Re: [FRIAM] Bad news about the climate

I am not a big fan of Sabine. Her book "Lost in math" is too pessimistic and too negative for me. She earns money from her YouTube video channel. The more sensational the content, the more clicks. That being said I agree that climate change is one of the biggest problems, and the outlook is not

[FRIAM] Bad news about the climate

I apologize for this relatively mass email. It was prompted by a video by Sabine Hossenfelder, Sabine is a theoretical physicist who has spent much of her recent life as a popular science writer and video maker. See her Wikipedia page

Re: [FRIAM] Please join Zoom meeting in progress Virtual Friam

So, you missed it because you got screwed. Got it. On 25 Jan 2024, at 15:46, Nicholas Thompson wrote: Hi, Frank, I was hoping to join you for a bit today but a super long dentist appointment intruded. sscrewing and screwing unscrewing and screwing unscrewin and screwing. An hour and a

Re: [FRIAM] Honeymoon over!

For more along these lines see Gary Marcus' latest . He must have written it fast and didn't proofread it. It's worth reading nevertheless. And if you're interested, my long abstract submission to IACAP-2024