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A strong new paper shows that climate-caused death constitutes the largest part (50-80%) of the Social Cost of Carbon (SCC). And, how we value lives in different countries makes the biggest difference in how high the SCC is. 83% of the deaths from emitting an additional tonne of

AI has both made learning much easier, and at the same time more people than ever may struggle learning because of it.

Ben Todd has written the best thing on how to plan your career given AI/AGI. Will thread. A very plausible scenario is salaries for the right work go up 10x over a ~decade, before then falling to 0. So we might be heading for a brief golden age followed by crazy upheaval. 1/

⚖️ What are concrete solutions to mitigation deterrence, the perceived risk of carbon removal to delay emissions reductions? This report, authored by Robert Höglund, Eli Mitchell-Larson and Sylvain Delerce, provides answers: carbongap.org/how-to-avoid-m… In the words of Robert Höglund:

🚨"This study proposes a novel #ClimateIntervention using absorptive aerosols in the upper stratosphere (\~10 hPa) to weaken the greenhouse effect by enhancing infrared emission. Model simulations suggest it could cool the planet up to 10 times more efficiently per unit mass

This is a travesty and a nightmare. The US was a founder of @Gavi. It lowers vaccine costs for the world, has vaccinated 1B children, and averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year -- and RFK Jr will be personally responsible.

2.5 years after I started using this function through GPTsheets Google introduces the same. Adoption is not very rapid..

Is global warming accelerating? Over at The Climate Brink I argue that the consilience of evidence from surface temperatures, climate models, forcing changes, ocean heat content, and earth energy imbalance all point toward yes: theclimatebrink.com/p/the-great-ac…

New Scientist has a report on a controversial issue discussed last week at the #GlobalTippingPoints conference in Exeter: will we need solar radiation interference as a desperate measure, as politicians are failing to phase out fossil fuels? newscientist.com/article/248734…

Does random reflectance test of biochar need a discount when issuing credits to account for remaining uncertainty? A new white paper from Carbon Direct questions whether the method can be used without adjustments: "Based on available literature and evidence, Carbon Direct does

From "After the Spike": "The year 2012 may well turn out to be the year in which the most humans were ever born—ever as in ever for as long as humanity exists." Going to live-tweet interesting bits.