MCLI Model Local Law for Data Centers - A Framework for Responsible Data Center Development

https://modelclimatelaws.org/resources/local-data-center-model-law/?mc_cid=9e81a3c95e

#Climate, #ClimateChange, #Energy

Record-breaking Iberian fire season three times larger due to climate change

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/news-and-media/media-centre/weather-and-climate-news/2026/record-breaking-iberian-fire-season-three-times-larger-due-to-climate-change-

#Climate, #ClimateChange, #Wildfire, #Wildfires

Agrivoltaics Design and Analysis Model

Could your land do double duty, growing crops and generating energy? ADAM is a free techno-economic modeling tool for evaluating co-located solar and agriculture. All data is based on industry averages; results may change significantly with project-specific information.

https://openei.org/wiki/InSPIRE/ADAM

#Climate, #ClimateChange, #Energy

Enabling the Effective Use of Technology for Resilience to Natural Hazards and Disasters through International Collaboration (2026)

https://www.leopoldina.org/en/publications-and-dates/publications/detail/enabling-the-effective-use-of-technology-for-resilience-to-natural-hazards-and-disasters-through-international-collaboration-2026

#Climate, #ClimateChange

U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters

https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-services/billion-dollar-disasters

#Climate, #ClimateChange

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAnUSd9cX4E

I was today attending to GENESIS Advisory Board meeting in Munich, where I presented our progress on air emission monitoring. In GENESIS, together with several project partners, we are working towards better emission monitoring and data driven process optimisation to reduce gas phase emissions from semiconductor manufacturing.

As the meeting was arrange at the Munich Messe, I had a change to visit SEMICON Europe. There were interesting presentations related to ChipsAct2.0 emphasising European supply chain and chip manufacturing.

I also met multiple Finnish colleagues, who I have not had a change to meet in Finland.

#GenesisEU #Semiconductors #ChipJU #SemiconEuropa2026 #ChipsAct

Tonight is the peak for the Northern Taurid meteors. This shower is one of several Taurid streams active in late October and early November. And although the Taurids have a weak Zenithal Hourly rate of 5, barely approaching the background sporadic rate, they’re also notorious for producing a relatively large number of fireballs.

The source of the Taurids is ultra-short period Comet 2P/Encke. 2026 also has the advantage of a Moon just 3 days past New during the peak of the Northern Taurids. Eliot Herman caught a fine example of an early Taurid on November 8th:

Her: it just said Article 2

Me: ok any letters?

Her: ends with an s

Me: would electors fit?

Her: how did you know that?

Me: it was just a guess I could have been wrong

Her: but you weren't

Me: ok but I could have been

I made a new daily word game! https://hexalexagons.com/ Find all the words on a hexagonal grid. Watch out for walls!

Thanks to friends and family who play-tested for me ❤️ Let me know what you think!

Yayınımız, bazı teknik aksaklıklar nedeniyle bugüne ertelenmişti.

Saat 21.00'de görüşmek üzere!

🔗 https://kick.com/gelecekbilimde

The thought of America becoming the handmaid's tale makes me want to throw up.

Becoming a sex slave doesn't sound fun.

Donate to the PCRF if you can. Palestinian children deserve your support

#BookReview: ‘Among The Birds: Field Notes From Cascadia’ By Lyanda Lynn Haupt

by @GrrlScientist via Forbes (PLEASE IGNORE THAT AI GENERATED SUMMARY AT THE TOP!)

#birds #birding #books #MustRead https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2026/11/10/review-among-the-birds-field-notes-from-cascadia-by-lyanda-lynn-haupt/

Maapallo ei ole varsinainen valtameriplaneetta, koska sen meret ovat vain pinnan matalia lätäköitä.

Eksoplaneettojen globaalit valtameret voivat muodostaa jopa satoja kilometrejä syviä vesivaippoja.

Mutta niilläkin voi olla elinkelpoisia olosuhteita.
https://tuomim.wordpress.com/2026/11/11/mahdollisuuksia-valtamerimaailmojen-elinkelpoisuudelle/

Ironically, it becomes clear from the first 45 pages of Haskell Curry's book that the 3 main programming languages are #Lisp, #Prolog and #Forth. 😉

Bingeing logic lately. After easing in via Quine, I'm finding Curry's foundations book ultimately to be what I'd been looking for rn.

"A number of global catastrophic risks—nuclear war, pandemics, global food-system collapses, and more—threaten sustainable human life on Earth. These risks often share drivers and emerge from many interrelated factors. Which contributors to prioritize for research and policy has not yet been systematically assessed. Here, we present a horizon scan of contributors to global catastrophic risk, with an emphasis on new or neglected threats. 25 academics from diverse disciplinary backgrounds submitted 96 issues, which were then cut down to 15 priority issues through a structured expert elicitation procedure. Themes included the integration of artificial intelligence into military and security systems, fragile global trade networks, climate change impacts, and institutional failures undermining risk reduction efforts. Our findings provide a prioritized agenda for reducing global catastrophic risk that highlights the diversity of risk factors and the importance of addressing drivers that underpin numerous individual risks."

#GlobalCatastrophicRiskAssessment
#RiskAnalysis

https://www.cell.com/one-earth/fulltext/S2590-3322(26)00274-5?rss=yes

"Urbanization can negatively affect nesting and reproductive behaviors of birds. Even so, certain species can survive in abundance despite its negative impacts, due to their ability to use alternative human-made structures as nesting sites. There are several studies focusing on hummingbirds’ floral resource use in urban environments, however, little is known about their reproduction and nesting in these areas. Here, we used 5,136 nest photographic records from WikiAves and eBird, two widely used crowdsourcing citizen science platforms, to assess hummingbird nest site choice in natural and anthropized environments across the Americas. We found that 74 hummingbird species (32.03% of the sampled and 20.22% of known species) used diverse human-made substrates as nesting sites or built nests in anthropized environments. This use was observed across almost all clades and its detection was related to sampling effort, but not to species’ body mass, a trait often associated with hummingbird occurrence in urban areas. Overall, these results could indicate behavioral plasticity in some hummingbird species reproductive behavior and nesting resource use, besides their ability to incorporate novel floral resources and nectar feeders in their diet across human-modified areas. Because plants were their preferred nesting sites even in anthropized environments, the importance of maintaining vegetation in transformed and urbanized areas to support these pollinator populations is highlighted. Finally, our results also emphasize the potential of citizen science to provide large amounts of data across extensive geographical regions that would otherwise be difficult to obtain."

#hummingbirds
#birds
#CitizenScience

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11252-026-02175-1

Optimistic claims about AI's potential for postive impacts on climate hinge on improbable changes in human behavior, such as most meat consumers making a hard swerve to synthetic animal proteins.

''The meat and dairy sector offers the starkest contrast between technology readiness and market reality. To achieve the 2035 emission reductions anticipated in the earlier study, AI would need to close the taste and cost gap between traditional proteins and alternative ones, such as lab-grown or plant-based burgers and milk substitutes.''

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/11/09/1148166/the-climate-case-for-ai-has-not-been-made/?utm_source=the_download