mtobis
@mtobis
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BSc ee, Northwestern; PhD ocean/atmos sci, UW Madison; model builder; musician. Worried about the future on several fronts, climate disruption among them.
Lanark ON and/or Austin TX
Joined October 2007
This hook got me, because it's something I have been thinking about, but the hook is not representative of the thread. But the thread is one you should not miss anyway. It's about the various ways corporations extract value from their workers and customers.
Notwithstanding the pretensions of certain well-paid economists, political economy is not a "physics of human behavior," through which human interactions and outcomes can be quantized and precisely captured through mathematical models. 1/
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Economist prof Thomas Schelling (U MD), Wall St. Journal, Feb 23, 2006. He concluded "But the uncertainties are daunting... I'd buy insurance. I'd do it prudently, and without great alarm. Yet!" Argue strategy, please. Please stop trying to confuse people about the facts.
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This new study found a flaw in most econometric analyses of future damages from climate change. They used a different modelling approach that incorporates global economic interconnectedness, and found when you do this, projected damages are much greater than originally estimated.
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Read the room, bro. It's Team Canada time, not "let's keep hating on Liberal and NDP leaders and voters" time 🇨🇦. You're stuck in 2024 while we're all trying to survive 2025. One country. One goal. Stronger Together.
These lying Liberals have been in government for 9 years. Instead of approving and fast-tracking energy projects, they added roadblocks, shut projects down, and delayed them to death. They are the problem. Common sense Conservatives will green-light energy projects so Canada
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@drtod1000 @ryankatzrosene "There are a lot of natural variations missing" Which ones?
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So why didn't the world act? This BBC documentary thriller explains the key reason. Well worth watching!
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My word, this thread is quite the trip. Let's dive in, shall we?
1/ 🚨 I just read a bombshell study from Dalhousie University that confirms what many feared—carbon taxes are driving up inflation and hammering food prices. Let's break it down. 🧵
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The techbro's overwhelming conceit is that nothing is a crime, so long as you do it with an app. Just as fintech is designed to be a bank that's exempt from banking regulations, the gig economy is meant to be a workplace that's exempt from labor law. 31/
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Also, posting a data visualization without a link to the source is really bad form. ffs.
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Twitter's main purpose (other than amusing snark) was to replace Google Reader, to get reading recommendations from people you respect. With links discouraged, and the snarks turned vicious, it's not very interesting.
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This is my desktop chrome trying to visit https://t.co/yAtspyXnGg at this moment. Safari having no problem.
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I knew there were a lot of fake accounts on this platform, but they are usually obvious. I had no idea how intricate and complex the ruse could be. Get a load of this story. 1/
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"The bad ones seem like products. The good ones seem like projects." — 12 yo on the games and movies he prefers
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So let me get this straight. Governments have been funding fraudulent scientists for the last 50 years to create a fake crisis, which they have then ignored and failed take the required action to fix? Lucky this genius 21 year old figured it all out for us. #climatebrawl
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If you are not shocked by the hard problem of consciousness, you haven't understood it
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This is a bit too harsh. The people at the meeting really believed that they had made progress. Their respective governments probably weren't fully conscious of their hypocrisy. But the result is hardly different for all that.
In other words, the whole 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, was performative, totally disingenuous, and intended to deceive the public into believing our governments were intending to take action, they never intended. 7/
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