(satire) *Chevron Promises Shareholders It Will Double Temperatures.*

One must ask, "In which temperature scale?" If it is Celsius, many places will merely be uncomfortable. If it is Kelvin, most of what our world would combust or melt.

* Barbers on Strike, author Michelle Recinos’s collection of short stories, has apparently upset strongman president Nayib Bukele.* He had her book banned.

A major project to plan Australia's decarbonization says that nuclear power is simply too expensive and too far in the future to play any role.

The report also suggests that making hydrogen using fossil fuel may permit storing or using enough of the CO2 that it can aid decarbonization. I am skeptical, but if they say so, maybe it is true.

The OECD says that future artificial intelligence will mostly eliminate skilled jobs (well-paid jobs).

When human skill is no longer needed, the plutocrats will push everyone down into inescapable poverty — until we overthrow them.

The reason for sending cluster munitions to Ukraine is that the West cannot manufacture shells anywhere near as fast as Ukraine fires them. The only way to keep Ukraine fighting is to take them from the large stockpile of cluster munitions.

I understand the logic of this, but it doesn't eliminate the danger that the unexploded submunitions will pose after the fighting stops.

I wonder if anyone has calculated what fraction of unexploded munitions left in the battlefields will come from cluster munitions fired by Ukraine. If it is a small fraction, in the end Ukraine's use of cluster munitions will not make a big difference. If it is a large fraction, then it will be the main cause of that future danger.