Links for 9/7/24

A new plan seeks to protect California’s coast against a rising ocean: It doesn’t require sea walls

Power-hungry AI is driving a surge in tech giant carbon emissions. Nobody knows what to do about it

A Brief History of South American Surf Rock

What Earth Could Look Like in 2050 If We Do Nothing About Climate Change

How climate change is messing up the ocean’s biological clock, with unknown long-term consequences

Marc Andreessen Is Wrong About Everything

Lab-grown meat is now approved for sale in the US. Will it help the climate?

Links for 7/20/24

AI’s Bizarro World, we’re marching towards AGI while carbon emissions soar

This New Map Reveals The Predicted Future Climate Where You Live

The father of Chicano art photography

These States Are Actually Aiming for More Pedestrians to Die On Their Roads This Year — Streetsblog USA

Berlin In The Summer of 1957 by Willy Pragher

permacomputing

A World Without Insurance: A Climate-Future Look at Property Values

Tech bro fascism looks like a lot like old-fashioned fascism

Gremmie Skateboards

“I’m not a climate change guy,” says a guy about to lose his home to climate change

New research supports Thor Heyerdahl’s theory on South Americans in the Pacific

Trawling the bottom of the ocean is kicking up tons of carbon dioxide

Links for 6/15/24

Creating a throw-away culture: How companies ingrained plastics in modern life

‘Underwater bicycle’ propels swimmers forward at superhuman speed

‘We’re in our 20s but live in the 1940s’

A response to Hannah Ritchie:  How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Economic Growth  

2-5 years to sci-fi level AI? Former OpenAI employee sounds alarm

Papa Doo Run Run America’s Music ~ California’s Band

Rooler Gab

Public has no right to swim in sea, claims firm that dumped sewage at bathing spot

“I Don’t Believe in Growth”

Why We Need “Degrowth” ? Current Affairs

California town asked to return a beachside hotel

Spencer’s Shenanigans

Links for 3/5/24

Degrowth can work — here’s how science can help

Sacred cultural site returned to Ohlone people

Intimate portraits of Indigenous Alaskans – in pictures

Famous Classical Composers as Lounge Pianists

Harmonica Quartet Performs an Incredible Cover of the Jazz Classic ‘Take Five’ by Dave Brubeck

Dapper Signs: Sign Painter, Human, Legend

Unstrapped Potential: The Possibility in Bindingless Riding

Florida Keys coral reefs devastated by 2023 heat wave

Big Oil’s Marketing Campaign Is Targeting US Classrooms

Why is Mark Zuckerberg building a private apocalypse bunker in Hawaii?

Runaway Greenhouse Effect Fully Simulated on Earth For The First Time, And It’s “Hell”

Links for 2/24/24

Meet The Billionaires Buying Up Hawai

Trawling the bottom of the ocean is kicking up tons of carbon dioxide

‘Laying claim to nature’s work’: plant patents sow fear among small growers

How the Oil Industry Indefinitely Delays Cleaning Up Oil and Gas Wells in California

Climate misinformation is mutating on YouTube – and the platform is profiting

For Surfers – polyola

California Sues Giant Oil Companies, Citing Decades of Deception

Breakthrough in understanding whale language

These Aviation Geeks painstakingly Re-Created a 1970s Pan Am Flight