Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (climatediscussionnexus.com/newsletter/), starting with the paradox of people's love-hate relationship with AI including hating data centers but using those wretched AI assistants constantly, a British supermarket's absurd decision not to sell brown eggs lest they fry humanity not the reverse, the omnicause saying the U.S. must not mine lithium lest it drain some aboriginal "sacred stream" or another, and predictions of a quiet hurricane season despite past yelling that climate change was making them worse worse worse, moving on to the Canadian government being full of itself morally but unsure whether Chinese EVs are made with slave labour and whether it cares, fascinating research into frozen squirrel poop (no, really), some alarmist saying Antarctica gaining ice isn't a sign of it not losing ice, the New York Times warning us to saunter for the hills as the Thwaites Glacier gradually perishes yet again, claims that alternative energy is a winning political issue because it saves money except it doesn't and you lose votes, and wrapping up by revisiting claims that climate change is causing the Great Lakes to empty or overflow depending on the latest fluctuations (which in fact are back to the historical average, the IPCC trying to force ECS up while real-world evidence keeps pushing it down, and from the CO2Science.org archive evidence that Velvet grass is velvety, grassy, and fond of CO2.
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John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (climatediscussionnexus.com/newsletter/), starting with the paradox of people's love-hate relationship with AI including hating data centers but using those wretched AI assistants constantly, a British supermarket's absurd decision not to sell brown eggs lest they fry humanity not the reverse, the omnicause saying the U.S. must not mine lithium lest it drain some aboriginal "sacred stream" or another, and predictions of a quiet hurricane season despite past yelling that climate change was making them worse worse worse, moving on to the Canadian government being full of itself morally but unsure whether Chinese EVs are made with slave labour and whether it cares, fascinating research into frozen squirrel poop (no, really), some alarmist saying Antarctica gaining ice isn't a sign of it not losing ice, the New York Times warning us to saunter for the hills as the Thwaites Glacier gradually perishes yet again, claims that alternative energy is a winning political issue because it saves money except it doesn't and you lose votes, and wrapping up by revisiting claims that climate change is causing the Great Lakes to empty or overflow depending on the latest fluctuations (which in fact are back to the historical average, the IPCC trying to force ECS up while real-world evidence keeps pushing it down, and from the CO2Science.org archive evidence that Velvet grass is velvety, grassy, and fond of CO2.
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