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Excerpts from an essay titled "The Great Energy Transition Myth"...
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Forget everything you thought you knew about energy transitions.

In his new book "More and More and More: An All-Consuming History of Energy," Jean-Baptiste Fressoz dismantles the comforting narrative that humanity has transitioned from one energy source to another. We never really transitioned at all. We just piled on more energy sources to the older ones, intensifying our overall consumption.

Take coal for example. While it became dominant during the 19th century, vast quantities of wood were still needed to support the coal economy – to build mines, railways and infrastructure.

This pattern continues today. Despite the rise of renewable energy sources like wind and solar, global consumption of fossil fuels remains at record highs.

"Transition" has become capitalism’s favourite disguise.
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FULL ESSAY -- theclimatehistorian.substack.c [theclimatehistorian.substack.com]

Front cover of the book described in post.
#History#Economics#Science
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Scientists Reveal the Hidden Chemistry of Air Pollution…

The interaction between hydrocarbon molecules and light can influence the formation of nitrous acid in the atmosphere, a compound that plays a significant role in air pollution... #chemistry #airpollution #science

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for much deliberation · Scientists Reveal the Hidden Chemistry of Air Pollution…The interaction between hydrocarbon molecules and light can influence the formation of nitrous acid in the atmosphere, a compound that plays a significant role in air pollution… #chemistry #a…
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Canada welcomes American scientists fleeing repression in US. "A recent survey by Nature found that more than 1,200 of the 1,608 U.S. scientists surveyed said they're considering relocating to Canada or Europe in response to disruptions to research under Trump. University Health Network will invest $15 million for the first 50 scientists and then is looking to match that amount from their community partners to bring over the remaining 50" #science #research #medicine thestar.com/news/gta/toronto-s

Toronto Star · Toronto’s University Health Network plans to attract top medical researchers to Canada after Trump slashed funding in the U.S.By Asma Sahebzada
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Take a look at this superb graphic from Zack Labe (@ZLabe). Zack is, by the way, someone you really should be following if you care about the climate.

Arctic sea ice is the mostly thick ice that floats on the Arctic Ocean, covering the North Pole and much of the area around it. That ice has been there for millions of years, sometimes growing in extent and sometimes shrinking, but generally holding at a steady level.

Now it is disappearing.

What you see in this graph is not a “natural” fluctuation. It is a direct and predictable result of greenhouse gases warming the atmosphere. This should not happen — and it would not happen if it wasn’t for capitalist commerce and industry wrecking our planet’s ecology.

Line graph time series of reconstructed Arctic sea ice extent over the last 1,450 years. After some multi-decadal variability, there is a sharp decreasing trend in the last part of the time series due to human-caused climate change.
#Science#Environment#Climate
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Manitoba researchers decry funding cuts after premier's invitation to U.S. scientists
A call from Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew for scientists in the U.S. to consider moving here has researchers in this province demanding more funding to give those who relocate a reason to stay.
#research #funding #politics #science #Manitoba #US
cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/ma

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Canadian scientist wins Breakthrough Prize for discovery of hormone used in Ozempic, Mounjaro
Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist and a clinician-scientist at the University of Toronto and the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute at Sinai Health, shares the $3 US million prize with four colleagues from the United States and Denmark.
#science #medicine #award #News #Health
cbc.ca/news/health/breakthroug

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@animalculum Unfortunately, it fits perfectly into the concept of the techbros with their #TESCREAL ideologies. They dream of #eugenics to ‘improve’ a "surviving human elite" genetically and with #AI or even #AGI. I would like to see ethical debates in science back (they still existed in my childhood).
At the same time we debate about #invasiceSpecies searching their habitats.
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#science#ethics#feasibilityMania
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Toronto's University Health Network launches scientist recruitment campaign amid U.S. health cuts, layoffs
Toronto's University Health Network says it has a new plan to recruit the best and brightest medical scientists from around the world, including the United States, where the government is laying off thousands of hea...
#recruitment #science #health #politics #Toronto #UnitedStates
cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/uhn

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"the researchers had used a training data set in which all COVID-positive cases were in adults, and the negatives were in children aged between one and five. As a result, the AI model had merely learnt to distinguish between adults and children, but the researchers mistakenly concluded that they had developed a COVID-19 detector."

#Science #Research #AI # COVID

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While the U.S. lays off health researchers, this Toronto hospital network plans to ramp up recruitment
Toronto's University Health Network says it has a new plan to recruit the best and brightest medical scientists from around the world, including the United States, where the government is laying off thousands of health ...
#recruitment #science #health #politics #Toronto #UnitedStates
cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/uhn

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