Quick Notes

• 2020-07-11

  Your children will be fine without trees, right?

  “Most trees alive today won’t be able to survive in the climate expected in 40 years.” Article in Science.

• 2020-07-11

  The (dismal) future of the human climate niche

  “over the coming 50 years, 1 to 3 billion people are projected to be left outside the climate conditions that have served humanity well over the past 6,000 years.” PNAS article.

• 2020-07-03

  What could possibly go wrong?

  My county, Santa Clara, is losening COVID-19 restrictions while having record numbers of infections, and record numbers of infection growth. Is insanity one of the side effects of COVID-19? If so, can officials please be tested?

• 2020-07-02

  Civil society lobbies Indonesian government up about the need for COVID app privacy

  Wants white paper, full source code, privacy policy, security incident reports and transparent governance. Very reasonable! And eminently needed because if there is no trust by the public into the COVID apps, nobody will use them.

• 2020-06-29

  9 out of 49

  That’s how many people wore a mask when I took a jog today.

  I counted everybody I saw where I could clearly distinguish mask or not. I didn’t count:

  • small children
  • people in their yeards or in their cars
  • people about to enter stores
  • children on bicycles.

  And that in one of the best-educated places in the country (Silicon Valley) where new COVID-19 cases per day are now higher than ever. Just how much bother can it be to put on your mask? You didn’t forget your pants either.

  Words fail me.

• 2020-06-28

  A cleantech resurgence?

  Silicon Valley bank is speculating based on Amazon’s latest moves.

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