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Hisham Zerriffi
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Energy Resources, Development and Environment Lab (ERDELab) PI, @UBCforestry Assc Dean EDI. Energy, equity, justice, climate change, bioenergy. But also TTRPGs and photography (https://pixelfed.social/i/web/profile/499807930552574625). he/him. .. more

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Hello new Bluesky followers!

A re-intro:

Academic in Forestry faculty but not a forester. Work on energy, land-use, climate, equity, justice. Often at intersection of energy & forests.

With a dash of TTRPGs, nerdy stuff and politics.

And photography:

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Wally Broecker, who coined the term "global warming" 50 years ago, would have been 94 years old today.
Climatic Change: Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced Global Warming?
If man-made dust is unimportant as a major cause of climatic change, then a strong case can be made that the present cooling trend will, within a decade or so, give way to a pronounced warming induced...
www.science.org

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Want to cozy up with some tasty books this season? I cooked up two new ones for you in 2025! Automatic Noodle (instant bestseller!) and the anthology We Will Rise Again co-edited with @older.bsky.social and @drkarenlord.bsky.social (out 12/2!). Have a feast! #booksky #blackfriday

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Musings on the CleanBC Independent Review Panel Report. #1: huge thanks to @danwoy.bsky.social and Merran Smith for combining their deep knowledge and a huge effort to produce a report with essential and detailed advice for BC. I'm supportive overall, with quibbles.

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I will, yet again, make the point that I will judge this government on its actions and not what Carney said about climate in his book or on the Liberal Party election platform.

So far? It’s not looking good folks.
People who care about climate change are “dreaming nostalgically about the past.” - Minister Hodgson

Gotcha. That explains a lot.

WTAF did I just experience?!?!?

This two part acid-fueled fever dream of improv defies description.

I mean if I told you it blended Fargo, high fantasy, Christian theology, Norse mythology, Dante, Mario, romcom, necromancy, and so much more would that really help?
Catholicism was right!

Part 2 of Worlds Beyond Number playing Fiasco, by
@bullypulpithq.bsky.social, is out now wherever you listen to podcasts!

Watch now: youtu.be/ZnP4HLLs27s
Worlds Beyond Number: Fiasco! (Part Two)
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People who care about climate change are “dreaming nostalgically about the past.” - Minister Hodgson

Gotcha. That explains a lot.
After some time for reflection I think this is one of the biggest open questions that has a big impact on how much climate action we will see in Canada -
unless I'm reading this wrong (?) it doesn't say the carbon floor will be $130 by April. It says there will be an agreement by April 1/
Where does it say $130 in April? it says they will by April agree on what the timeline and price increases are.
I would bet a very large sum of money it will not be $130 effective price in April.

This the way. We need the people who have grout opinions to get intrigued by home energy systems.
Here in Germany, it's finally cracked the "middle-aged tinkerer" market. Like, I have seen people walk up to each other on the street and ask about household solar installations. These are the same types of people who have opinions about grout.

"Mitigation deterrence and unrealistic expectations: the future costs of forest carbon offsets.”

While carbon sequestration in forests may be an important part of climate solutions, it's important to understand how that interacts with energy transition investments. We have a new paper on this:
Mitigation deterrence and unrealistic expectations: the future costs of forest carbon offsets | Camilla Moioli - PhD
Excited to share the publication of a new chapter from my Ph.D. thesis. An open-access article in Global Environmental Change titled:  “Mitigation deterrence and unrealistic expectations: the future ...
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Might need to install Slop Evader on every family member's device because I'm pretty sure they are tired of me say something like:

"Huh, that's cool/neat/fun if it's actually real" every time they show me something online that is even the tiniest bit sketch.

(h/t @404media.co)
'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
www.404media.co

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Here in Germany, it's finally cracked the "middle-aged tinkerer" market. Like, I have seen people walk up to each other on the street and ask about household solar installations. These are the same types of people who have opinions about grout.
It's a strange way to go about building national unity—agreeing with Alberta what should be built in BC without talking to BC about it.

Can't imagine the federal government taking this approach to a project that went through Ontario or Quebec.
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
Carney briefs cabinet on Alberta energy deal to be unveiled Thursday
Agreement could open the door for a new heavy oil pipeline to the B.C. coast
www.theglobeandmail.com

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Catholicism was right!

Part 2 of Worlds Beyond Number playing Fiasco, by
@bullypulpithq.bsky.social, is out now wherever you listen to podcasts!

Watch now: youtu.be/ZnP4HLLs27s
Worlds Beyond Number: Fiasco! (Part Two)
YouTube video by Worlds Beyond Number
youtu.be

I still remember stumbling on this as it was happening, scrolling up to catch up and then desperately refreshing to see what happened next.

Been a rough day. Needed these family food drama chuckles.
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore

I feel like we need this

1st time visiting Ex’s family for Thanksgiving. Aunt was apparently notorious for making god-awful casseroles and then wanting to serve them out to everyone. *Nobody told me.* Trying to make good impression I enthusiastically said yes to casseroles.

Rest of family looked at me like I lost my mind.
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore

I feel like we need this

Definitely going to use “solution-shaped objects” to describe this stuff.
"writing code to solve a problem" used to have "understanding the problem" as a prerequisite. but vibecoding allows solution-shaped objects to be produced without any of the hard-won understanding. beware of solution-shaped objects.

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"writing code to solve a problem" used to have "understanding the problem" as a prerequisite. but vibecoding allows solution-shaped objects to be produced without any of the hard-won understanding. beware of solution-shaped objects.

Is the fact you’ve taken the time to organize your obsolete cables better or worse than having the black hole bin of random tech?

I will cop to having at least one box of obsolete cables.

Plants? The right amount.

Books? That is a weird way of writing “not enough books”

No rustic pottery.
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

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So the guy who is supposed to understand finance and economics doesn’t think gender is relevant and is a related but diff “justice” issue.

Economics should not be the only driver for gender equity but to think it is largely irrelevant to economics is something else.
Carney declares end to Canada's 'feminist foreign policy,' breaking from Trudeau era doctrine
Mark Carney declared an end to Canada's "feminist foreign policy" Sunday, marking a break from the Liberals' approach under Justin Trudeau.
theprovince.com

FYI, deleting the post you replied to because somehow I managed to link to some random Italian software site that I’m not sure is secure according to my browser.

Yeah, when I said the algae can work I meant theoretically in terms of absorbing carbon and being turned into fuel. Not necessarily as a viable business

3rd, assuming you can make the algae fuel carbon neutral, add in a mobile CCS unit and actually sequester the carbon, there’s one little problem. It’s still a car with a plug-in hybrid combustion engine!

That means the whole lifecycle impacts of the car but also all the other exhaust pollutants!

In all seriousness, this microalgae fuel plus mobile carbon capture unit for negative emissions thing has me completely puzzled.

Sure, the algae part can work. But 1st of all, process emissions for producing the algae fuel? 2nd, how are you going to dispose of the captured C02 from all these cars?
Mazda’s vision is combustion engines with carbon capture fueled by microalgae and using AI to create an emotional bond between you and the car.

Can’t decide which of those two is more problematic. Why not both I guess?
Today in "Things I Can't Believe I'm Reading"
cc: @ketanjoshi.co

www.mazda.com/en/mazda-mir...

Don’t forget, it’s also going to save us:

“Mazda believes that the joy of driving can be a force for positive change for society and the planet.”
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

Yes!!! But also hard to say out loud without getting massive eye rolls.