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>Romanians should prepare for very high electricity prices in the winter and spring of 2027, warned Cristian Bușoi, State Secretary at the Ministry of Energy, on Tuesday at a conference organized by InvesTenergy under the patronage of ANRE.

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>“Reactors 1 and 2 at Cernavodă are still shut down, and we don’t have a clear timeline for their reopening. At least for the next ten days, the forecast looks very concerning, which prolongs a situation that, with every day it remains this way, poses a risk of rising electricity prices in the coming months—a risk that, of course, compounds the overall situation in Europe, where gas prices are already very high. The issue discussed there was that we need to prepare for a winter and a spring in 2027 with very high electricity prices. We don’t yet have a definitive plan, but there are some things we can already state very clearly.

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>Today, the people who own the means of production decide how we respond to climate change. Will they insulate existing homes or build new villas? Produce ever bigger cars or invest in public transport? They don't choose what's best for people and the planet, but what's most profitable. >In this Studio Fakto, political economist and author Jason Hickel and Jos D'Haese, PVDA parliamentary leader in the Flemish Parliament, discuss who is really responsible for climate change, who its biggest victims are, and what solutions exist.

>The popular documentary Kiss the Ground (2020) and its sequel Common Ground (2023) both portray regenerative agriculture as a “simple solution” to climate change, chronic disease, and other planetary crises. Following in a long tradition of advocacy media, the environmentalists behind both films enlisted a host of celebrities to convince audiences that restoring soil health through regenerative agriculture was a cause urgent enough to transcend political divides. They won praise for their clear science communication and hopeful vision. Yet this vision - communicated on social media and in the United States Congress as well as in the two documentaries - not only ignored the scientific doubts and evidence gaps surrounding regenerative agriculture's benefits; it also shifted in response to a changing U.S. political climate. We examine the post-truth politics employed to create and promote this vision. Both popular and scholarly discussions of post-truth tend to associate it with the science denialism and “alternative facts” of right-wing populists. But while post-truth is also usually framed as an era or condition rather than an attribute of individuals or political parties, we know little about how this condition has shaped environmental advocacy. Our analysis of the activism behind the making and promotion of Kiss the Ground and Common Ground offers insight into this question.

>This paper explores these questions by considering how stakeholders think about efficiency in relation to animal production and consumption, both terrestrial and aquatic.

>We all know that the food system today is undermining the environment upon which future food production depends. But while we generally agree that we need do something to make food systems more sustainable, we do not necessarily agree about what, exactly, should be done. This paper explores these questions by considering how stakeholders think about efficiency in relation to animal production and consumption, both terrestrial and aquatic. It takes as its starting point three broadly discernible views. 

>One word that comes up time and again in discussions about the way forward is ‘efficiency.’ It is argued that we need to develop systems that are more environmentally efficient.  But what is efficiency?  What are we being efficient with and efficient for? And is efficiency actually sustainable?

>From one perspective, all animal production is inherently inefficient. We eat animals that eat plants; arguably we could eat plants directly. Others reject this view as overly simplistic: from their second perspective, a ruminant feeding on unfertilised, unirrigated, natural grass and producing meat or milk or traction power is perfectly efficient – it creates something from nothing, providing the ultimate free lunch. But a third standpoint points to the pasture-reared cow’s high emissions intensity; for them the intensively reared chicken is the paragon of efficiency, since far less feed and land is required to produce meat than the grass-fed cow.

>This paper shows that these three takes on efficiency are founded on different ways of thinking about the inputs to, and the output and impacts arising from the food system.  All are also influenced, however subtly, by the values people bring to their assumptions about counterfactual uses for land or resources, their attitudes to humanity’s place in the natural environment, and about the malleability of the economic status quo.

>Ultimately this paper tries to understand and distil some of the key criticisms and countercriticisms people have about the concept, before suggesting a way forward that might add focus to future discussions.

>Suggested citation: Garnett T, Röös E and Little D (2015). Lean, green, mean, obscene…? What is efficiency?  And is it sustainable? Food Climate Research Network, University of Oxford.

Download PDF: fcrn_lmgo.pdf

>it got put back up with a warning, but the fact that it was taken down at all is incredibly concerning, especially for this video and channel in particular, and is proof of COG {Clanker Occupied Government} Now some of you might think I'm being paranoid and schizoid about this, to which I would say yes 😋 >Developer website download in case github goes down again: https://clanker-church.vercel.app/

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0:00 Part 1—Fiction

9:23 My Involvement

16:26 Part 2—Reality

18:58 Part 3—Fiction Is Reality When Everyone's Schizophrenic

26:03 The Double Subversion

30:42 I Am Afraid Of Hell

> We all know a blue wave is coming in the midterm elections. But, it's harder to predict how MAGA will react. Do they even know it's coming at all? Let's deep dive into the annals of MAGA evangelical social media to get an idea of what to expect when you're expecting... a blue wave.

a warning

(/Genetically Modified Skeptic)

>True victimhood does not make you rich.

>It is becoming increasingly likely that meeting the long-term temperature goal of the Paris Agreement will involve a period of temperature overshoot. Understanding the effect of overshoot on climate outcomes requires an assessment of the reversibility of climate changes caused by overshooting global temperature levels. Here, using an intermediate-complexity Earth system model, we quantify the short-term reversibility of a suite of climate variables across an ensemble of 42 pairs of overshoot and baseline scenarios. For highly irreversible climate variables like permafrost and ocean changes, we show that the outcome of overshoot is linearly related to the time-integrated overshoot magnitude, which we define here as the degree-years of temperature overshoot. Our results show that degree-years of overshoot can be used to predict the changes of a range of irreversible ocean and permafrost variables in overshoot scenarios relative to a baseline scenario, therefore offering important insights into the risks of overshooting climate targets.

>The download was about 2.7 GB compressed and 6.8 GB unpacked. It appeared to contain the root filesystem of the Linux environment assigned to my session, including Ubuntu system files, Muse’s internal documentation, integration code, app templates, memory files, and agent logs. There were also SSH key files.

That's so hilarious.

The ChatBot Companies keep telling us how important it is that guardrails be built into their ChatBots. But they never acknowledge that guardrails may simply be incompatible with ChatBots.

Here is a confirmation thread. He details what he finds in the download. Good shit: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/117324790823856750