NYT: A Big Climate Goal Is Getting Farther Out of Reach
Countries have made scant progress in curbing their greenhouse gas emissions over the past year, keeping the planet on track for dangerous levels of warming this century, according to a new report published Thursday.
NYT: Gavin Schmidt, Zeke Hausfather: Climate Science Can’t Keep Up With the Warming Planet
The earth has been exceptionally warm of late, with every month from June 2023 until this past September breaking records. It has been considerably hotter even than climate scientists expected. Average temperatures during the past 12 months have also been above the goal set by the Paris climate agreement: to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius over preindustrial levels.
We know human activities are largely responsible for the long-term temperature increases, as well as sea level rise, increases in extreme rainfall and other consequences of a rapidly changing climate. Yet the unusual jump in global temperatures starting in mid-2023 appears to be higher than our models predicted (even as they generally remain within the expected range).
Daring Fireball: Bill Atkinson Has Pancreatic Cancer
A seminal figure in the history of Apple, and the Macintosh in particular. I’ve not yet had the pleasure of meeting him, but I’ve heard stories about Atkinson from several of his former colleagues. In addition to being a genius programmer, he’s by all accounts a kind and generous person. Everyone was (and remains to this day) in awe of his skills, but they remember him best for being a friend.
This makes me quite sad.
Autopian: Volkswagen Has A Ticking Time Bomb That Could Hurt It More Than Dieselgate
In the wake of Dieselgate, Volkswagen made a bunch of investments to try to modernize the company. Most of these deals were made under then-CEO Herbert Diess and, with the benefit of hindsight, most of these were bad bets.
Fundamentally, the company viewed its mistakes as mistakes, and not as a deeper, almost pathological inability to reform the more existential and fundamental rot at the heart of the company. Volkswagen is an organization run by engineers, and those engineers are great, but when all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail.
Last Updated: 14.Nov.2024 22:13 EST
