Posts tagged climate

A little over a year ago I wrote an essay called A history of the near future. How have things gone since then?

Det er vanskeligt at spaa, især naar det gælder Fremtiden.

— maybe Niels Bohr

Here’s what I think is coming and why: make of it what you will.

Being another letter I will not send to my MP.

In late 2018, when I still worked at the Met Office, I sent a document to some people there which explained why I thought AI would come to dominate weather forecasting, and why weather forecasting organisations should be looking at AI, urgently. Today, the 28th of July 2023, there is a leader on the subject in The Economist as well as an extended article in its Science and Technology section.

On the occasion of Rishi Sunak’s budget.

If you think that we can continue economic growth by simply moving to Mars, you’re a fool.

In 2016 you voted for brexit. But you voted for it because the leave campaign lied to you, of course: not because you didn’t like foreigners very much and didn’t care very much about your children’s future.

Whatever you think about brexit, there is something which matters more. And brexit is not compatible with that thing.

Welcome to the age of the clown fascists.

How long might this take, in the worst case?