mayo

1500T TNT is equivalent to 15KT and then 240KT is 16% of 1500. Comes out to 2.4KT?

Some did the math on another thread, but 2.8 earthquake -> 240tons TNT -> 2.4KT nuke

Subsidies

Bit more context in case people pass on the article, but Cleveland Cliffs was looking to get a $500 million grant from the Department of Energy to convert a coal powered steel manufacturing facility to hydrogen. Automakers buy their steel on the global market, so prices need to be competitive with what India and China can come up with. That grant might expire, revealing a weak link in the White House's green initiatives I hadn't thought about before.

All of these companies are publicly traded, none of them are willing to absorb costs for transition projects. Lourenco Goncalves isn't a good guy here.

It's not just democracies ramping up policing efforts and handing out unnecessarily punishing sentences to protesters. The world seems to have become more hostile since the pandemic took our economies for a tumble. On a societal level it makes sense that government institutions are clamping down on civil disobedience at the same time that disobedience is ramping up because of economic/social/climate/everything else problems

It needs to said I'm not expecting it to be popular.

This study is trying to reduce uncertainty around current theories, it's more science by scientists. Uncertainty makes it harder to build effective policy.

I think I always forget what wet bulb is exactly because these events are relatively rare, geographically isolated, and don't last long enough to be the specific cause of death. We get lots of heat death but not (35C100%H) heat death. The article says that we won't see sustained wet bulb temps this century.

Interesting takeaway:

"“What this new model shows is, when you take into account the limitations of human physiology, these upper wet-bulb temperature limits look as though they are much lower under certain types of conditions.”

Not as dismal as the headline suggests. They're targeting 90% by 2030.

Yes that's for sure what's happening. If I come across an account that does this I delete the account. No point in keeping an account that I need to 're-register' if I sign in once or twice a year.