Gershon Bialer @gersh@mastodon.eco
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🌎 Climate activist and Data Engineer from San Francisco, CA. Views my own.
Joined Nov 2022
I used AI to write letter from different animals to humans about climate change. What do you think? https://gershonb.medium.com/can-ai-imagine-what-animals-think-of-climate-change-15930f22def9
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Salinas River has flooded, submerging Salinas Valley, threatening to cut of Monterey Peninsula
#cawx #climate #floods #californiafloods
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Some Silicon Valley Bank failure reading:
1) Overview https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/10/silicon-valley-bank-collapse-00086586
2) Technical details https://www.netinterest.co/p/the-demise-of-silicon-valley-bank
3) Paywalled https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-03-10/startup-bank-had-a-startup-bank-run
In short, they had a lot of money tied up ("held to maturity") in low-interest bonds, which lost value when interest rates rose. Changed accounting to sell off some, the losses spooked depositors, got a bank run.
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"Tan estimated that nearly one-third of Y Combinator’s startups will not be able to make payroll at some point in the next month if they cannot access their money." https://apnews.com/article/svb-fed-bonds-rates-banks-inflation-a24b28b3caeede91c76cd120aa9b7966
#SiliconValleyBank
@dsacer What do you think of something like https://docs.google.com/document/d/10mhnQUvkQlrT9izp0HC0b-xk7DKb4_O12Ht5RQARXNg/edit?
Climate change is not just an environmental issue, it's also an economic issue. We must take action to address it before losses cascade through the financial system. Let's listen to women, use AI, and take local actions to combat the greatest threat to human progress. #ActOnClimate
@dsacer They should create reports that show costs of not enacting various policies to address climate change. There could be a quarterly report on the cost of not having carbon tax or such.
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I am ready to continue to stand up for the truth, as I have done my entire career, and I will not be cowed by conspiracy theories or intimidation. I am extremely proud of my service to my nation.
@paul I see the map, but it is unclear from the map how much water is needed to change to not being in drought.
@paul how soon will the state officially be out of drought?
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Few things shock me these days as a climate reporter in Louisiana. But while reporting on methane emissions in the Gulf, I learned that venting has caused helicopters to fall out of the sky https://www.desmog.com/2023/02/07/gulf-mexico-offshore-oil-methane-pollution-helicopter-crashes/
It is looking like forest carbon offsets are a sham. https://theconversation.com/satellites-detect-no-real-climate-benefit-from-10-years-of-forest-carbon-offsets-in-california-193943
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"Relocating whole communities, sometimes called managed retreat, is perhaps the most aggressive form of adaptation to climate change." Interior Department awards 3 tribes $75m https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/u-s-awards-millions-to-move-tribes-including-quinaults-threatened-by-climate-change/
#ClimateChange #ManagedRetreat #ClimateAdaptation
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The climate change deniers sre still at it, now trying to stop offshore wind turbine development. And using a slick video production to do it.
#climate #wind #renewables #fossilfuels
https://heated.world/p/the-fossil-fuel-industrys-deceptive?utm_medium=email
@kevincianfarini I think some people have worked to put the US code onto git. See https://github.com/timlabs/uscode.
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If you are launching a new nonprofit campaign or initiative, you can apply to get a .eco domain for free for the first year of registration. Apply here: https://go.eco/grants/ #givingback #ecocommunity
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Interesting podcast on agrivoltaics: AgriSolar Podcast Ep. 1: Growing Crops Among the Solar Panels in Colorado https://attra.ncat.org/episode-280-growing-crops-among-the-solar-panels-in-colorado/
Want to know what corporations are most responsible for climate change? Check out this compiled dataset of the reported GHG emissions from the largest corporations. Note: some corporations don't report all their emissions. See the notes on Scope 3 GHG emissions. https://www.yourstake.org/product-tours/esg-regulatory-compliance-solutions/sfdr-data
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AI-generated paintings imagine how famous historic artists would illustrate the climate crisis.
A series of AI-generated images envision how famous artists from history would depict some of the most pressing issues that threaten our environment, from deforestation to plastic pollution and factory farming.
#ai #climate #climatechange #art
https://www.designboom.com/art/ai-generated-paintings-famous-historic-artists-would-illustrate-climate-crisis-11-27-2022/
@NikaShilobod https://acemovi.tuneskit.com/review/best-video-blurring-software-mac.html . If you search for face blur there are lots of options.
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🌎 Climate activist and Data Engineer from San Francisco, CA. Views my own.
Joined Nov 2022
