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Oil, Gas, and Other Climate Solutions (Apparently)
https://open.substack.com/pub/theclimatehistorian/p/oil-gas-and-other-climate-solutions?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=e4my…

Oil, Gas, and Other Climate Solutions (Apparently)
Just five months until COP returns, that annual spectacle where world leaders gather to boldly pledge climate action, only for those promises to be quietly watered down or, conveniently, lost in translation

Trump Administration to Open Alaska Wilderness to Drilling and Mining (Lisa Friedman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/climate/national-petroleum-reserve-alaska-trump-drilling.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250602/p143#a250602p143

A new study of 14 open-source LLMs: larger models use exponentially more energy and produce more greenhouse gas emissions, but do not always give better answers (Sachi Kitajima Mulkey/New York Times)
https://www.nytim…

Your A.I. Queries Come With a Climate Cost
When it comes to artificial intelligence, more intensive computing uses more energy, producing more greenhouse gases.

AI and Remote Sensing for Resilient and Sustainable Built Environments: A Review of Current Methods, Open Data and Future Directions
Ubada El Joulani, Tatiana Kalganova, Stergios-Aristoteles Mitoulis, Sotirios Argyroudis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01547

AI and Remote Sensing for Resilient and Sustainable Built Environments: A Review of Current Methods, Open Data and Future Directions
Critical infrastructure, such as transport networks, underpins economic growth by enabling mobility and trade. However, ageing assets, climate change impacts (e.g., extreme weather, rising sea levels), and hybrid threats ranging from natural disasters to cyber attacks and conflicts pose growing risks to their resilience and functionality. This review paper explores how emerging digital technologies, specifically Artificial Intelligence (AI), can enhance damage assessment and monitoring of trans…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.01916 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_ees…

Maximizing Seaweed Growth on Autonomous Farms: A Dynamic Programming Approach for Underactuated Systems Navigating on Uncertain Ocean Currents
Seaweed biomass presents a substantial opportunity for climate mitigation, yet to realize its potential, farming must be expanded to the vast open oceans. However, in the open ocean neither anchored farming nor floating farms with powerful engines are economically viable. Thus, a potential solution are farms that operate by going with the flow, utilizing minimal propulsion to strategically leverage beneficial ocean currents. In this work, we focus on low-power autonomous seaweed farms and desig…

"EU open to carbon offsets on path to 2040 emissions target"
#EU #EuropeanUnion #Emissions #Climate

EU open to carbon offsets on path to 2040 emissions target
The European Commission has controversially proposed allowing international carbon offsets to help meet the EU’s 2040 climate targets, raising concerns about outsourcing the emission reduction actions. #EuropeNews

Detection, attribution, and modeling of climate change: key open issues
Nicola Scafetta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13994 https://arxi…

Detection, attribution, and modeling of climate change: key open issues
The CMIP global climate models (GCMs) assess that nearly 100% of global surface warming observed between 1850-1900 and 2011-2020 is attributable to anthropogenic drivers like greenhouse gas emissions. These models also generate future climate projections based on shared socioeconomic pathways (SSPs), aiding in risk assessment and the development of costly Net-Zero climate mitigation strategies. Yet, the CMIP GCMs face significant scientific challenges in attributing and modeling climate change,…

Today I had to cancle a BBQ on Donauinsel, because the city issued a ban of open fire due to dryness and danger of fires spreading. Like many climate change effects, this happens earlier every year :-(

"EU open to carbon offsets on path to 2040 emissions target"
#EU #EuropeanUnion #Emissions #Climate

EU open to carbon offsets on path to 2040 emissions target
The European Commission has controversially proposed allowing international carbon offsets to help meet the EU’s 2040 climate targets, raising concerns about outsourcing the emission reduction actions. #EuropeNews

"EU open to carbon offsets on path to 2040 emissions target"
#EU #EuropeanUnion #Emissions #Climate

EU open to carbon offsets on path to 2040 emissions target
The European Commission has controversially proposed allowing international carbon offsets to help meet the EU’s 2040 climate targets, raising concerns about outsourcing the emission reduction actions. #EuropeNews