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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.

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,…

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

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.01916 has been replaced.
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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…