Wow, good satire by Woody Harrelson.
Anthropogenic Global Warming ... how hot is it ?
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Wow, good satire by Woody Harrelson.
War in Iran led global emissions to fall this year, research finds
A separate study found that the world is still far from meeting its climate goals.I suppose the higher gasoline prices had an effect?
But you have to wonder what long term harm is done by all the ships sunk, etc.?
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AI sharpens hurricane forecasts, but humans still call the shots
AI is often criticized for the energy its data centers consume, which is driving more fossil fuel use and contributing to climate change.But it is also helping meteorologists make markedly more accurate forecasts, including for hurricanes, which are notoriously complex to predict and pose a growing threat in a warming world.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) began using Google DeepMind's AI model last year and is working with the company on developing its successor.
The work has come to the fore this year—as an intense El Niño weather pattern led to a record number of hurricanes in the Pacific, and Hurricane Isaias struck the southeastern United States last month as a major storm.
Ferran Alet, a DeepMind research scientist who leads its cyclone work, explained that ....
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Which god? Zeus, Poseidon, Aeolus, .... or someone else?
Of all persons S2, I'd have hoped you would not be one to conflate God and religion.
On the fringes humans may have some influence over climate, weather. BUT !
There were probably hurricanes before the first human.
If so, probably errant to attribute hurricanes to humans.
And if humans don't cause hurricanes, who / what does?
It's not my idea.
They were called "acts of God" long before CV.us
or sear.
Analytical parsimony is a self-inflicted penalty, as is pessimism in general.
There are many paths to happiness. Optimism remains a useful premise. BUT !
Could be Aeolus ! A blow-hard if ever there was one !
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The article made in clear that AI was improving predictive abilities. Not that it actually influenced weather.
But if, as you say, "God still calls the shots", the obvious question is which god?
Indeed.
I wasn't aware I'd suggested otherwise.
Weather forecasters receive predictions from a variety of models,
which is how we end up with hurricane landfall prediction spaghetti maps like this:
The models make predictions.
Our meteorologists review & draw conclusions from them. BUT !
Those are guesses about the future, not manifestations in the present.
The latter is the big G's job.
The question obvious to the polytheist.
Our prejudice can betray us.
Restricting perception of God to anthropomorphic prankster is silly.
Perhaps this will help a little.
Don't think of it as God causing the hurricane.
Think of it as God being the hurricane, along with everything else.
"I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief." Gerry Spence, Attorney at Law
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Which brings this to mind
