Brett Favaro
@brettfavaro.bsky.social
Conservation scientist. Tweets about climate, oceans, & sustainable development. Views my own, and do not necessarily reflect views of employer. He/him.
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Another good reason to switch your heating to a heat pump just as soon as you possibly can.
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December 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Another good reason to switch your heating to a heat pump just as soon as you possibly can.
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Personal update -- I resigned from my role at Co-Chair of Canada's Net-Zero Advisory Body. The job had been a true honour and privilege, one of the highlights of my professional life. If you're interested in more of an explanation, see my Linked-In page.
December 4, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Personal update -- I resigned from my role at Co-Chair of Canada's Net-Zero Advisory Body. The job had been a true honour and privilege, one of the highlights of my professional life. If you're interested in more of an explanation, see my Linked-In page.
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New project documenting A.I. slop graphics in academic journals
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New project documenting A.I. slop graphics in academic journals
The last month saw a couple of relatively high profile examples of generative A.I. slop appearing in academic journals. From my collection o...
neurodojo.blogspot.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:55 PM
New project documenting A.I. slop graphics in academic journals
neurodojo.blogspot.com/2025/12/new-...
neurodojo.blogspot.com/2025/12/new-...
So they're really going to invade Venezuela? And this isn't triggering wall-to-wall crisis coverage?
December 4, 2025 at 4:25 AM
So they're really going to invade Venezuela? And this isn't triggering wall-to-wall crisis coverage?
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i strongly, strongly believe that good writing is downstream of clear thinking and a strong understanding of the subject matter at hand. without fail, tortured writing comes from writers who don’t know and can’t think clearly about anything.
Oh man! This paragraph is brutal. The best thing about this review is it's not trying to be mean. It's just listing how bad the writing is.
December 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
i strongly, strongly believe that good writing is downstream of clear thinking and a strong understanding of the subject matter at hand. without fail, tortured writing comes from writers who don’t know and can’t think clearly about anything.
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they can pump out the headlines when elon says there will be a new car he’ll never actually deliver or a mission to mars that never comes. less so when he consistently posts the most vile nazi views imaginable.
it should probably be a bigger story that the richest man on earth and leading Republican is a fucking Nazi
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
December 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
they can pump out the headlines when elon says there will be a new car he’ll never actually deliver or a mission to mars that never comes. less so when he consistently posts the most vile nazi views imaginable.
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OK this is ridiculous. The draft new Canadian public health guidance-development mechanism doubles down on excluding subject matter experts from voting roles, restricts membership to people from inside the EBM pseudoscience bubble, and sets up to funnel public money to McMaster-GRADE courses etc.
Draft Implementation Plan for the Renewed Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care - Canada.ca
Feedback will help ensure effective implementation of the recommendations from the External Expert Review and inform a renewed Task Force.
www.canada.ca
November 16, 2025 at 9:26 AM
OK this is ridiculous. The draft new Canadian public health guidance-development mechanism doubles down on excluding subject matter experts from voting roles, restricts membership to people from inside the EBM pseudoscience bubble, and sets up to funnel public money to McMaster-GRADE courses etc.
Interesting
New fun short paper alert w/@raihanalam in PNAS! Learning about congressional stock trading reduces trust in congress, which in turn reduces citizens' own willingness to follow the law broadly.
Ban it! Hope it helps @aoc.bsky.social @warren.senate.gov
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Ban it! Hope it helps @aoc.bsky.social @warren.senate.gov
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Knowledge of politician stock trading reduces congressional legitimacy and compliance with the law | PNAS
Institutional legitimacy is essential for democracies, yet public trust and confidence
in the United States Congress are at an all-time low. A sign...
www.pnas.org
December 3, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Interesting
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
Since we are having a "who can spend more money on police" contest I have a modest proposal
Let's make EVERYONE IN SURREY a police officer. Boom, poverty solved.
Checkmate libs
Since we are having a "who can spend more money on police" contest I have a modest proposal
Let's make EVERYONE IN SURREY a police officer. Boom, poverty solved.
Checkmate libs
Vancouver, Surrey mayoral hopefuls make public safety promises
While the municipal election is still 10 months away, some Metro Vancouver mayoral contenders are already offering campaign plans and promises.
www.ctvnews.ca
December 2, 2025 at 7:04 PM
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
Since we are having a "who can spend more money on police" contest I have a modest proposal
Let's make EVERYONE IN SURREY a police officer. Boom, poverty solved.
Checkmate libs
Since we are having a "who can spend more money on police" contest I have a modest proposal
Let's make EVERYONE IN SURREY a police officer. Boom, poverty solved.
Checkmate libs
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You were just thinking - you know what we need? one more hot take on the Canada Alberta climate and energy hot take. Well we at @energyvsclimate.bsky.social have got you covered with a quick run down, and at the end some bonus takes from the EvC community www.energyvsclimate.com/hot-take-can...
HOT TAKE: Canada-Alberta Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)
There are many takes on the big Carney-Smith energy agreement – we thought you could use one more.
The new Canada–Alberta MOU unveiled last Thursday is already generating more chatter than a pipeline...
www.energyvsclimate.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:40 PM
You were just thinking - you know what we need? one more hot take on the Canada Alberta climate and energy hot take. Well we at @energyvsclimate.bsky.social have got you covered with a quick run down, and at the end some bonus takes from the EvC community www.energyvsclimate.com/hot-take-can...
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Too many boards and presidents appear to believe that the value and legitimacy of their university resides in the brand when it, in fact, resides in knowledge and judgment, which in turn resides in the faculty and academic staff.
December 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Too many boards and presidents appear to believe that the value and legitimacy of their university resides in the brand when it, in fact, resides in knowledge and judgment, which in turn resides in the faculty and academic staff.
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Why is the media consistently saying "energy," when they actually mean "oil and gas"?
"Alberta energy deal" rather than "Alberta oil and gas deal" etc.
This is obfuscation.
It serves to present these agreements as beneficial to all, rather than specifically beneficial to the oil and gas industry.
"Alberta energy deal" rather than "Alberta oil and gas deal" etc.
This is obfuscation.
It serves to present these agreements as beneficial to all, rather than specifically beneficial to the oil and gas industry.
December 1, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Why is the media consistently saying "energy," when they actually mean "oil and gas"?
"Alberta energy deal" rather than "Alberta oil and gas deal" etc.
This is obfuscation.
It serves to present these agreements as beneficial to all, rather than specifically beneficial to the oil and gas industry.
"Alberta energy deal" rather than "Alberta oil and gas deal" etc.
This is obfuscation.
It serves to present these agreements as beneficial to all, rather than specifically beneficial to the oil and gas industry.
![Meme with a smug US in a middle and a four point circle. 1. There is a global resource shortage. 2. [Insert autocracy and/or geopolitical US opponent] has large quantities of the resource. 3. "US hegemony is finished". 4. A random farmer in bumfuck nowhere middle America stumbles across the largest supply of said resource known to man.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cn6gkmgdsqyynfkgmmqblgx7/bafkreiamphn5waqkvljvgzc4gqrsx2jzql2xte3jpxqrgmhp2kqolzodzu@jpeg)
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This is a shame. We need to have our eyes open to changing patterns of climate risk…
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:43 PM
This is a shame. We need to have our eyes open to changing patterns of climate risk…
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
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This is a good article about the relentless onslaught of climate disinformation that distorts US and global politics.
I just wish it acknowledged that disinformation is sticky precisely because it often resonates w the speech of “our side.”
For example…
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
I just wish it acknowledged that disinformation is sticky precisely because it often resonates w the speech of “our side.”
For example…
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
Many Fighting Climate Change Worry They Are Losing the Information War
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:36 PM
This is a good article about the relentless onslaught of climate disinformation that distorts US and global politics.
I just wish it acknowledged that disinformation is sticky precisely because it often resonates w the speech of “our side.”
For example…
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
I just wish it acknowledged that disinformation is sticky precisely because it often resonates w the speech of “our side.”
For example…
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
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The Smith-Carney bitumen pipeline accord would very probably get a better reception at an Alberta NDP convention than at a UCP convention.
That's where we're at now in Alberta politics.
That's where we're at now in Alberta politics.
November 28, 2025 at 10:32 PM
The Smith-Carney bitumen pipeline accord would very probably get a better reception at an Alberta NDP convention than at a UCP convention.
That's where we're at now in Alberta politics.
That's where we're at now in Alberta politics.
I saw a talk by an "AI expert" who claimed he invented new types of statistics with chat gpt.
I'm not a statistician but I am experienced enough with terminology and use. He spoke about stats incoherently. Eg "Cat car run spin jump drink!" - all English words, but nonsense
But the CONFIDENCE...
I'm not a statistician but I am experienced enough with terminology and use. He spoke about stats incoherently. Eg "Cat car run spin jump drink!" - all English words, but nonsense
But the CONFIDENCE...
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I saw a talk by an "AI expert" who claimed he invented new types of statistics with chat gpt.
I'm not a statistician but I am experienced enough with terminology and use. He spoke about stats incoherently. Eg "Cat car run spin jump drink!" - all English words, but nonsense
But the CONFIDENCE...
I'm not a statistician but I am experienced enough with terminology and use. He spoke about stats incoherently. Eg "Cat car run spin jump drink!" - all English words, but nonsense
But the CONFIDENCE...
So, uh, if I'm dusting so infrequently that the cobwebs have become full blown spider nurseries, does this call into question my basement housekeeping?
November 28, 2025 at 5:08 AM
So, uh, if I'm dusting so infrequently that the cobwebs have become full blown spider nurseries, does this call into question my basement housekeeping?
This is a very good letter
Trudeau-era environment minister Steven Guilbeault has published a resignation letter detailing the reasons for his departure from Carney's cabinet.
He directly cites today's MOU:
He directly cites today's MOU:
November 27, 2025 at 10:02 PM
This is a very good letter
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The Ottawa-Alberta MOU is nothing more than a pipedream - Coastal First Nations
"We have zero interest in co-ownership or economic benefits of a project that has the potential to destroy our way of life and everything we have built on the coast," says Heiltsuk Nation elected Chief Marilyn Slett
"We have zero interest in co-ownership or economic benefits of a project that has the potential to destroy our way of life and everything we have built on the coast," says Heiltsuk Nation elected Chief Marilyn Slett
November 27, 2025 at 6:46 PM
The Ottawa-Alberta MOU is nothing more than a pipedream - Coastal First Nations
"We have zero interest in co-ownership or economic benefits of a project that has the potential to destroy our way of life and everything we have built on the coast," says Heiltsuk Nation elected Chief Marilyn Slett
"We have zero interest in co-ownership or economic benefits of a project that has the potential to destroy our way of life and everything we have built on the coast," says Heiltsuk Nation elected Chief Marilyn Slett
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This is the correct take. Stewing in white supremacist propaganda is bad for your thinking. And if think you are so savvy that it won’t impact you, you are the exact kind of mark they are slowly converting (I’m looking at you, centrist pundits).
It’s really funny how a generation will roll its eyes at parents who watch Fox News but doesn’t see why being immersed in Twitter is having the same effect. Lots of serious people show up on Fox News too but that shouldn’t be your primary source on the news.
November 27, 2025 at 10:05 AM
This is the correct take. Stewing in white supremacist propaganda is bad for your thinking. And if think you are so savvy that it won’t impact you, you are the exact kind of mark they are slowly converting (I’m looking at you, centrist pundits).
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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Electrification + efficiency — not rolling back climate policy — is the real path to a competitive European industry.
High fossil fuel prices hit industry hardest, not the Green Deal. Undermining clean-energy commitments would only push investment elsewhere.
euobserver.com/green-econom...
High fossil fuel prices hit industry hardest, not the Green Deal. Undermining clean-energy commitments would only push investment elsewhere.
euobserver.com/green-econom...
Why electrification, not repealing green laws, will save Europe's industry
According to Oxford professor of energy Jan Rosenow, rapid electrification of Europe's industry, not rolling back the EU's Green Deal, will save European industry.
euobserver.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Electrification + efficiency — not rolling back climate policy — is the real path to a competitive European industry.
High fossil fuel prices hit industry hardest, not the Green Deal. Undermining clean-energy commitments would only push investment elsewhere.
euobserver.com/green-econom...
High fossil fuel prices hit industry hardest, not the Green Deal. Undermining clean-energy commitments would only push investment elsewhere.
euobserver.com/green-econom...