The Pentagon is planning for AI companies to train on classified data, defense official says

The generative AI models used in classified environments can answer questions but don't currently learn from the data they see. That could soon change.

MIT Technology Review

Southeast Power Sector Competitiveness Dashboard

The Power Sector Competitiveness Dashboard offers a set of indicators that characterize competitiveness of electricity markets in the Southeastern United States.

https://nicholasinstitute.duke.edu/project/southeast-power-sector-competitiveness-dashboard

#Cliamte, #ClimateChange, #Energy

Southeast Power Sector Competitiveness Dashboard

The Power Sector Competitiveness Dashboard offers a set of indicators across factors like consumer choice, the role of independent entities, policy implementation, and the use of regional resources.

LA Times insisting on "both sides"-ing of the climate crisis in its editorial pages, as they do everything since they decided to kiss up to the oligarchy. Billionaire-owned media apparently all capitulated.

#media #climatemergency #cliamte

Experts urge canceling fossil fuel contracts to meet Paris climate goals

The countries participating in the UN Climate Change Conference (COP30), currently taking place in Brazil, must cancel fossil fuel concessions in order to keep the Paris Agreement alive. This is the main message of a paper published in the journal Nature and signed by experts Martí Orta, Gorka Muñoa and Marcel Llavero, from the Faculty of Biology and the Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio) of the University of Barcelona, and Guillem Rius, from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal).

Phys.org
Climate Resilience: Agriculture Under Pressure: Climate Change and Morocco’s Food Security

In 2025, Morocco entered its eighth consecutive year of drought . Reservoirs remain at record lows, food imports continue to rise, and small farmers struggle to survive. Climate change is no longer an abstract threat; it is reshaping Morocco’s agriculture in real time. The question is not whether the sector matters, it is the backbone of rural life, but whether Morocco’s agricultural policies can keep pace with this accelerating crisis.

Friedrich Naumann Foundation

And to think that, in February 2019, I spent a full day in London with the entire 12-person BP Executive Team talking climate, in what then seemed like an earnest "how", not an "if," nor even "when."

https://gwagner.com/bp-2019

#cliamte #oil #bp

BP

London, UK

Gernot Wagner

Liability Considerations for Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal Projects in U.S. Waters

https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1245&context=sabin_climate_change

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Step-by-Step: Sequencing as Effective Climate Policy

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5051047

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Step-by-Step: Sequencing as Effective Climate Policy

<p><span>Policy to address climate change faces steep hurdles, such as low public salience, entrenched opposing interest groups, diffuse benefits, and difficult

Data Centers in Virginia, Report to the Governor and the General Assembly of Virginia

https://jlarc.virginia.gov/pdfs/reports/Rpt598-2.pdf

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