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Martin Jones @martincjones.com · 4h

"But if similar shifts – from sink to source – were observed in other rainforests, climate projections may underestimate global warming in future. “Which is bad news,” he said."

Martin Jones @martincjones.com · 4h

"Prof. David Karoly, who was not involved in the research, said on a global scale the share of carbon dioxide absorbed by forests, trees, and plants had been quite stable over the past 20 to 30 years, which was assumed to continue under many climate models and policies."

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Martin Jones @martincjones.com · 4h

Research in Nature: "Australian tropical rainforest trees have become the first in the world to switch from being a carbon sink to an emissions source due to increasingly extreme temperatures and drier conditions. The change... began about 25 years ago" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Australian tropical rainforest trees switch in world first from carbon sink to emissions source

Researchers say carbon emissions change in Queensland tropical rainforests may have global climate implications

www.theguardian.com

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Martin Jones @martincjones.com · 5h

"Tough new policy measures are needed to dramatically boost sales of electric vehicles and enable Australia to meet its ambitious climate targets, carmakers have declared, calling for more financial incentives and a 2035 ban on petrol cars." www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

Petrol car sale ban needed in 10 years to meet net zero by 2050: EV lobby

Australia needs tough new policies to reach its ambitious 2035 climate target, electric carmakers say.

www.smh.com.au

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 15h

The thing about solar geoengineering is that once you start you cannot stop *ever* unless somehow you have already removed all the multi-billions of tons of carbon emitted since the day you started.

If you stop at the higher CO2 concentration you get virtually instantaneous catastrophic heating.

Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 17h

"If geoengineering works well initially & you see this temperature drop, the tempempation to keep going & extracting fossil fuels will be greater than ever, because it will seem that you have a technologically that can cut off the link between temperature rises & fossil fuel combustion."

Overshoot & Climate Breakdown - Wim Carton & Andreas Malm | #39

YouTube video by Jesse Damiani

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Martin Jones @martincjones.com · 17h

"Known as shipping’s net zero framework, the proposed scheme is a cap and trade system that imposes financial penalties on companies whose ships exceed emissions limits and rewards those that make cuts below the target – enabling them to sell credits to third parties."

Martin Jones @martincjones.com · 17h

"[The scheme] is expected to be ratified with the backing of other prominent members of the Paris Agreement such as the European Union, Japan, China, as well as Pacific nations."

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Martin Jones @martincjones.com · 17h

"Australia will stare down the Trump administration’s threat to punish nations that back an international pact to impose a carbon price on international shipping. ... It will be voted on at a meeting of the International Maritime Organisation on Thursday, Aus time." www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

Australia to stare down Trump’s threats over new global carbon tax

Australia is backing an international push to impose a carbon price on international shipping despite warnings from the US president.

www.theage.com.au

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 1d

This may just be the best CS paper I’ve read this year. Just read the abstract and first para of the intro! The rest of the intro is really wild too, but very very good:

dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

A screenshot of an academic paper. It reads:

Abstract
A "
'quine" is a deterministic program that prints itself. In this essay, I will show you a "gauguine": a probabilistic program that infers itself. A gauguine is repeatedly asked to guess its own source code. Initially, its chances of guessing correctly are of course minuscule. But as the gauguine observes more and more of its own previous guesses, it detects patterns of behavior and gains information about its inner workings.
This information allows it to bootstrap self-knowledge, and ultimately discover its own source code. We will discuss how-and why-we might write a gauguine, and what we stand to learn by constructing one.
CCS Concepts: • Computing methodologies → Philo-sophical/theoretical foundations of artificial intelli-gence; Theory of mind.
Keywords: reflection, probabilistic programming
ACM Reference Format:
Kartik Chandra, Amanda Liu, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, and Joshua B.
Tenenbaum. 2025. Gauguin, Descartes, Bayes: A Diurnal Golem's Brain. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming and Software (Onward! '25), October 12-18, 2025, Singapore, Singa-pore. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 9 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/
3759429.3762631

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From time to time, we all have crises of identity-moments of radical and overwhelming uncertainty about our selves.
I' don't know whether the doubts that seize us can really be externalized in language, but if I were to try, I would express them as questions, questions like: Who am I? What am I?
What kind of person? What kind of mind?

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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 2d

"The end result has been that domestic gas prices on Australia’s east coast have trebled, resulting in surging electricity prices that have put Australian households and energy intensive businesses under extreme pressure."

Why Santos is behind your soaring electricity and mortgage costs

It was a primary force behind Australia’s inflationary surge, it’s forced businesses either to the wall or to shift offshore, undermined national industry policy and resulted in the loss of countless ...

www.abc.net.au

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Martin Jones @martincjones.com · 2d

This is a very good, thoughtful view of artificial intelligence – AI as Normal Technology

Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 2d

These guys are pretty insightful imho www.normaltech.ai/p/ai-as-norm...

AI as Normal Technology

A new paper that we will expand into our next book

www.normaltech.ai

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Martin Jones @martincjones.com · 2d

"The EDO told the ACCC that Climate Integrity thinks AEP may be the "primary contravener" of Section 18 of the Australian Consumer Law, and EY may be an accessory."

Martin Jones @martincjones.com · 2d

"Our client is concerned that AEP's statement creates the impression that continued gas expansion is both inevitable and required to meet net zero targets, in circumstances where this is inconsistent with authoritative international modelling. This may mislead policymakers, investors and the public"

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Martin Jones @martincjones.com · 2d

"The EDO says the AEP also used EY's modelling to make the claim, in a press release in November 2023, that: "New gas supply needed in all net zero pathways: EY report." The EDO told the ACCC that was not what the EY modelling said."

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Martin Jones @martincjones.com · 2d

""AEP, with the support of EY, produced sophisticated disinformation that misled policymakers and influenced the national climate strategy to expand gas production, and delay the energy transition under the guise of credible analysis," said Claire Synder, the director of Climate Integrity."

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Martin Jones @martincjones.com · 2d

One to keep an eye on: Advocacy group Climate Integrity, with the Environmental Defender's Office, has asked the ACCC to investigate the Australian Energy Producers peak lobby group for misleading and deceptive conduct, based on how the AEP communicated modelling by EY www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

ACCC urged to probe 'distorted research' behind government gas policy

Advocacy group Climate Integrity has accused the gas industry of using "distorted research", produced by the accounting firm EY, to influence the Australian government's Future Gas Strategy.

www.abc.net.au

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Martin Jones @martincjones.com · 2d

This is not an article to be taken uncritically, but it has some interesting arguments. Food for thought.

Martin Jones @martincjones.com · 2d

"In addition, covering just 3% of the land currently dedicated to biofuels with solar panels would produce the same amount of energy."

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Martin Jones @martincjones.com · 2d

"land restoration offers much greater carbon benefits than using the land for biofuel production. Globally, land restoration of areas currently used for damaging biofuels would deliver a whopping 400 million tonnes a year in CO2 savings."

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Martin Jones @martincjones.com · 2d

"When crops are burned for fuel, new land can be needed to grow new crops for food or fuel. This can lead to indirect land clearance and deforestation. Staggeringly, biofuels globally therefore today emit 16% more CO₂ emissions than the fossil fuels they replace."

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Martin Jones @martincjones.com · 2d

Interesting article suggesting biofuels are worse than fossil fuels for GHG emissions. Instead, it recommends using the potential cropland for sequestration and electrifying transport. www.transportenvironment.org/articles/cro...

Burning food for land-hungry biofuels is fuelling the climate crisis

For the first time ever, Cerulogy, on behalf of T&E, looks at the global biofuels landscape today and what a growing market will look like in 2030.

www.transportenvironment.org

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 7d

If you want to read an actually good piece about integration in the United Kingdom, try @samfr.bsky.social:

The Truth About Integration

I have been challenged by readers to write something less depressing about the state of the country.

samf.substack.com

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Martin Jones @martincjones.com · 7d

"Monash University is proposing to close and break up its flagship climate crisis institute, [the Monash Sustainable Development Institute], leaving scores of academics and staff fearing for their jobs." The MSDI is also home to the Climateworks centre www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

‘Vanish in a puff of smoke’: Monash plans to close climate crisis institute

Fears that “redundancies by stealth” could hit about 100 researchers, staff and climate scientists on short-term contracts.

www.theage.com.au

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Mara Pfeiffer @wortpiratin.de · 8d

Mit 15 nennt Däbritz Ballack und Messi als ihre Vorbilder. Es ist ihre Generation, die viel dazu beiträgt, dass Kids heute auch ganz selbstverständlich Popp, Schüller – und eben Däbritz sagen.

Bolztribuene @bolztribuene.de · 8d

Hättet ihr's gewusst? Mit Sara Däbritz tritt die letzte Goldmedaillen-Gewinnerin von Rio 2016 aus dem DFB-Team zurück. Für Sport1 schaut die @wortpiratin.de auf ein stilles, aber immer humorvolles Idol des Teams und hat dabei auch eine Archivperle zutage gefördert.
www.sport1.de/news/fussbal...

Die letzte deutsche Heldin von Rio tritt ab

Mit Sara Däbritz geht die letzte Spielerin der Generation, die 2016 die olympische Goldmedaille gewann. Sie hat eine besondere Phase im Fußball der Frauen mitgeprägt.

www.sport1.de

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Michael Mazengarb @michaelmazengarb.bsky.social · 9d

I’m keen to chat to people in Australia working on climate attribution science and economics. Particularly, the quantification of climate losses and linking to specific sources of emissions.

Can anyone point me in the direction of anyone doing this work in Australia?

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