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Eric Schmidt: Build more AI datacenters, we aren't going to 'hit climate goals anyway'
(www.theregister.com)
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
I'm not surprised he'd think this. But I am that he'd be dumb enough to say it.
This tells you more how disconnected and entitled at the lack of personal consequences these people are than how stupid they are, I think.
They're not dumb, they're just convinced it's not going to cause them any personal damage to say this.