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In parts of the west, record heat and fires mean the end of forests: "Recent studies estimate that as much as 40 percent of Western conifer forests will turn into shrubland by 2100 as a result." @eniiler @nytimes
Wildfires Are Turning Forests in the American West Into Shrubland
Towering woodlands in the West are being permanently replaced by tracts of spiky shrubs. Conditions “just aren’t ...
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Just another day on a rapidly heated planet: "August 21st likely marked the warmest Sea Surface Temperatures have been for the entire Holocene period..."
And we have a new all-time record warm *absolute* temperature for the oceans, according to ERA5 (which goes back to 1940):
August 21st likely marked the warmest Sea Surface Temperatures have been for the entire Holocene period, and possibly even as far back as the last
Good reporting: a controversial DC journalist runs free inside the White House. “He followed his sources into this world of conspiracy theories and nihilism…That includes a number of journalists — and that’s a tragedy.” @ScottNover @Washingtonpost
How a dogged D.C. journalist became Trump’s investigative reporter in the White House
Once a reporter for the Associated Press and The Washington Post, Solomon veered rightward in his coverage. His pr...
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China's electricity growth is massive compared to the U.S., much of it based on new solar and wind power sources. In the U.S. and China, data centers are behind the surge in demand. Will the U.S. use dirty fossil fuels or clean energy to meet the growing demand? This from Gemini:
Elon Musk says the AI boom hits a WALL this year when we run out of power to run the chips.
He says the whole industry is about to learn a hard lesson in hardware.
Chip output is exploding, but electricity is nearly flat everywhere outside China.
So the two lines cross this