New posts from the.micro.blog
📰 Globe & Mail: We are on the verge of passing the 1.5° threshold in the next 7 weeks
The heatwaves and balmy oceans set the stage and now it is official: 2023 is the warmest year on record, with the global temperature increase on track to exceed a 1.5 degree Celsius threshold meant to limit the most severe impacts of climate change.
Unprecedented global temperatures from this past June onward resulted in 2023 overtaking the previous warmest year, 2016, by a large margin, Copernicus Climate Change Service said in a Jan. 9 press release. And it’s likely that a 12-month period ending in January or February 2024 will exceed 1.5 C above the pre-industrial level, the group said, reflecting record-setting temperatures on land and seas around the world.
Thank you Justin Trudeau for your contribution to this historic, catastrophic milestone. And a shout out to the millions of people who can’t be bothered to undertake the slightest inconvenience to reduce their own carbon emissions. If they don’t like those minor changes, they’ll love full-on climate change!
📰 Electrek: Hyundai and Kia surge past Ford, GM for second in US EV sales
Tesla remained on top (by far) with 55% of the share. …price cuts helped bounce back from an all-time low in Q3.
[It] captured 4.2% of the total US market with over 650,000 deliveries, topping Volkswagen, Subaru, and BMW for the first time. …
Hyundai capped off a record year with nearly 47,000 IONIQ 5 and IONIQ 6 EVs sold, while Kia sold almost 19,000 EV6 electric crossovers. It also began delivering its first three-row electric SUV, the EV9, with 1,113 sold in December.
Finished reading: How Canada Works by Peter Mansbridge and Mark Bulgutch 📚
Started reading it at a great clip but soon slowed to one or two interviews per day. I wanted to savour them and let them sink in and I wanted it to last!
My favourite chapter was probably David Wiens, the dairy farmer, although there were several contenders.
🔗📻 Mineable Hydrogen?
CBC: Quirks & Quarks: Could buried hydrogen help save the world, and more…
Geologic Hydrogen could be clean, green and plentiful
More than a century ago we discovered that there were rich deposits of energy buried deep in Earth, and so oil and gas became the foundation of our industrial civilization. Now history might be repeating itself as scientists think there could be massive amounts of clean, green hydrogen hiding underground as well. Quirks producer Jim Lebans spoke with Geochemist Barbara Sherwood Lollar from the University of Toronto, and geologist Geoffrey Ellis from the United States Geological Survey to understand where this hydrogen has come from, how much there is, and what its potential could be as an energy resource.
Humourous circle: when Apple ships Vision Pro, it will close the product name circle with VisiOn.
VisiOn, published by VisiCorp. (marketers of VisiCalc) was one of, if not the first GUI environments on the PC.
I hope Vision Pro is more successful!
