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The Retreat Continues
2+ week, 3+ day ago (812+ words) Back in April, THB broke the news to the world that the only three official reference scenarios used for the past 15 years in much of climate research, assessment and policy had been retired. The CMIP71 conclusion that RCP8.5, SSP5-8.5, and SSP3-7.0 were “implausible” was…...
The Inference Revolution and Europe’s Choice
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (681+ words) Remarks at the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Winter 2026 Meeting, February 19, 2026 Thank you, to Chairman Guliyev, and to the OSCE, for the invitation to address this distinguished assembly. We have been promised a debate about geoeconomics, and so I’m certain a debate…...
Australia Goes Again with “World-Leading” AI Strategy?
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (124+ words) The US shares many challenges with these jurisdictions and can draw insights from their experiences, yet the comparison questions assumptions about what a post-copper world will look like and the timeline for such change. BY Bronwyn Howell ON 10 Jul 26 Our…...
Three Hard Truths About France's Wildfires
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (1639+ words) The pattern is very familiar: With every extreme event comes claims — from journalists, scientists, and politicians — that we can reduce the impacts of those events by quickly cutting our emissions of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels. Here…...
The End of Work? Not Yet—Maybe Not Ever | American Enterprise Institute - AEI
3+ day, 7+ hour ago (599+ words) My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers in the USA and around the world: My working political assumption, however, is that the digital die has been already cast. Even if we’re still short of “you’ll know it when you see…...
China’s Path to Chip Independence
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (488+ words) When Will the Middle Kingdom Make Enough of Its Own Compute? For the past several months, Satvik Pendyala and I have been buried in wafer allocation tables, yield rate estimates, and thermal design specifications, trying to answer one of the…...
A New Power Grid for a New Technological Era
4+ day, 5+ hour ago (524+ words) The physics of electricity remains difficult, but these technologies lower the transaction costs of using distributed resources—it becomes cheaper to know where they are, what they can do, and how to compensate their owners. This shift in cost changes…...
The Water Fight Over Data Centers Is a Distraction. The Grid Fight Is the Real Story.
5+ day, 41+ min ago (121+ words) As the lawmaker, the court should bear the burden of clarifying what is prohibited, rather than allowing ambiguous drafting to chill lawful conduct. BY Daniel Lyons ON 2 Jul 26 The FCC's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking asks whether the E-Rate program should…...
US Extreme Weather and Climate Change Dashboard
5+ day, 49+ min ago (608+ words) That paper included a time series of the frequency and intensity of heat waves across the United States which was adopted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as an official climate indicator, featured on the EPA’s Climate Change Indicators website....
How Fast Is Transformative AI Approaching?
5+ day, 5+ hour ago (355+ words) I work at a public-policy research organization in Washington, DC. That means I work within the Acela Corridor (though I prefer “BosWash megalopolis,” a term coined by techno-futurist Herman Kahn). From that railway-inspired nickname, I derive my term for the constellation…...