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contrails.org do a great job of explaining this and have some solid interactive tools that allow you to simulate the effect of flight plan changes: https://explore.contrails.org/ex…

10,000 autonomous ships to do it in 9yrs?

Per passenger?

Good visual overview of nitinol properties here (Action Lab): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65r6Ztxi0EQ

Tomorrow’s efforts have been creative and very interesting to follow. It was sad to hear that the demand is so weak for their solutions.

Not at all.

This is worth reading all the way through. The script the Times team wrote to keep Bing and other search engines accountable is a great example of effective tech journalism.

One could drive an electric car for nearly 2000 miles with that much energy.

Collective action is probably much more meaningful than individual action. So spporting candidates that are serious about implementing policies like a carbon tax or eliminating exs…

They absolutely are. Three cameras above the rear view mirror are kept clear by the wipers.

Just because the bleeding is less worse than it was in the early 2000s doesn’t mean the bleeding is good.

No. The areas burned in the Amazon are replaced by grazing and farming fields, which are vastly less effective at locking in carbon. They’re also not a replacement for lost ecosyst…

It's a little surprising that even with a two-speed Gearbox the Taycan has neither better range nor low range 0-60 acceleration than the Tesla P100D (which has the same size batter…

The Amazon does not burn naturally. Fires there are man made to clear land for agriculture.

Definitions here "wildfire, defined as largescale forest loss resulting from the burning of forest vegetation with no visible human conversion or agricultural activity afterward". …

Blaming NGO's is ridiculous gaslighting. Agriculture and forestry drive Brazil's forest loss. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/361/6407/1108.ful...

Bolsonaro has clearly encouraged deforestation. No other recent Brazilian political leader been so explicit about it. He has also encouraged harassment and hate towards natives liv…

His explanation is misleading. These are man-made fires caused by massive deforestation. Sources: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-why-amazon-rainfores... https://science.sc…

These are man-made fires driven by large-scale deforestation. Calling them wildfires is misleading.

Your first point is misleading. Satellite imagery and in the ground evidence clearly shows that the fires are almost exclusively driven by humans. Not wildfires. This is conscious …