Robert Southon
barcelunar.bsky.social
Robert Southon
@barcelunar.bsky.social
In the Iceland case misleadingly quoted by @theguardian.com, the use of #renewable energy in electricity and heating does not stop Iceland's consumption-based emissions per capita from being very high in global terms, embedded in imports and transport use. 2/2 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Emissions in a decarbonised economy? Global lessons from a carbon footprint analysis of Iceland
Decarbonisation of stationary energy supply, particularly electricity grids, is the current focus of climate change mitigation policy. However, studie…
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May 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM
that AI is exceedingly likely to lock human society into a faster, supercharged, higher energy using, more unequal form of the capitalist status quo which is already driving us off a cliff.
February 1, 2025 at 1:44 PM
that AI is exceedingly likely to lock human society into a faster, supercharged, higher energy using, more unequal form of the capitalist status quo which is already driving us off a cliff.
February 1, 2025 at 9:07 AM
eventually to get it published, and for length, ended it the way I did. Having written this, I need to write a second part, because I think perhaps the greatest danger in AI is the one that fewest are talking about, which is
February 1, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Hi, and thanks for responding. I am not sure if it's still true about the patterns and, in any case, AI is advancing so quickly that the consequences are highly concerning, to say the least. I wrote most of this article a couple of weeks ago and wanted to move into those other issues but
February 1, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Now, 5 months on, El Nacional has finally paid me part of what they owed, and I've accepted. My thanks to legal and union help, and all my support to my ex-colleagues fighting for workers' rights!
I do wonder what they'll do with the Ground Hog Day page.
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December 18, 2024 at 3:25 PM
The thing is that, until 3/7/24, I was sole person responsible for day-to-day running of El Nacional IN ENGLISH. Then they fired me and others (and did it badly). But the main news page in English remained on-line and frozen: showing the same outdated stories every day to a few confused readers!
December 18, 2024 at 3:25 PM
The Aguirre photo on the cover of El Nacional's edition in Catalan won't last long. However, since July 2nd, this same photo has been PERMANENTLY on display on the cover of El Nacional's ENGLISH edition. www.elnacional.cat/en/ Same photo, same article every morning: "Groundhog Day".
December 18, 2024 at 3:25 PM
Yes, but the scientific value of graphing the anomaly is, I suppose, showing that the anomaly distribution curve has its tail stretched out to the left (lower) end. Yet the significance of this is not discussed in the article, nor is the graph itself labelled as showing "Anomalies". Too hard.
December 9, 2024 at 4:26 PM