I believe the Metaverse is the future of the Web itself. I want to help build a lot of new companies to lay the foundations and build solutions in the Metaverse. I want to help people form teams, build prototypes, get funded, find customers, and much more. …
My plan to save humans from themselves
This blog is about fixing the world. If you had $250 million to change the world, what would you do? Start a new company? Start a venture capital firm? Start a university? Build a hospital? Run for president?
Maybe a few crypto-billionaires should run a contest and see who applies…
Let’s look at the data
We keep hearing that Greenland is melting away because people are driving cars, flying in airplanes, and buying stuff made in factories. Is it true?
Looking at the graph above, you would think temperatures have not been above freezing, so the ice sheet can’t melt, but that’s at the top…
Much ado about sea-level — let’s investigate
Someone on LinkedIn pointed out that sea-level is not just rising, it is accelerating! For “proof,” he presented this peer-reviewed paper …
Consolidating Sea Level Acceleration Estimates from Satellite Altimetry
It’s actually a decent paper. It doesn’t add anything to our knowledge, but I’m going to break it down anyway.
The Discovery
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A video report by Marcel Croc
I recommend visiting Marcel’s site, CLINTEL.ORG and subscribing to his newsletter. He recently released an initial take on the IPCC AR6 I think is worth watching:
For next week, I am planning something big.
Happy holidays! If you haven’t yet, head over to The Deep Optimism Manifesto and share…
Weren’t we supposed to be devastating the planet?
Part of the Deep Optimism Manifesto is that the beneficial CO2 we add to the atmosphere is good for plants and encourages more plants to grow. We are at close to an historical low in CO2; plants will be happy to get a bit more.
How groupthink comes to the masses
When I ask people how they know humans are destroying the earth and how they know that human-generated CO2 is causing catastrophic climate change, I never get a straight answer. No one ever tells me about a book or a paper. I ask for the one thing that tells them…
Wolfgang Müller, General Secretary of the German organization EIKE, a think tank that advocates rational approaches to energy and the environment, does the math on renewables. In this image from his talk, he assumes tripling both wind and solar capacity, and you can see clearly that Germany cannot afford to…
I’m glad you’re interested in science. However, I don’t think peer review is the signal of scientific rigor you think it is. Simple statistical analysis shows that the majority of peer-reviewed findings are false or meaningless, and the press will take any paper and blow it up into a headline…
I am a huge fan of Willis Eschenbach’s. He looks at data to understand the earth’s climate. In this piece, Willis will show us what the data says about cloud feedback to more warming. His previous important work on this topic includes:
