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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.
He’s technically correct (best kind of correct), but that still doesn’t mean we should bring about Armageddon in exchange for gorified Google Search (with extra ads).
The Futurama reference for the uninitiated: