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Essays on climate science, artificial intelligence and the cost of the things we take for granted.
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Day 1 in Yerevan: A New President, a Global Review and Familiar Divides on Money
The opening plenary elected Armenia’s Hambardzum Matevosyan as COP17 President, put the first global review of the biodiversity framework on the table, and showed where the big groups stand, above all on finance.
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Day Zero in Yerevan: What the COP17 Leaders’ Summit Delivered
Three days before the negotiators sat down, world leaders met in Yerevan and adopted the Yerevan Declaration. Who was in the room, the numbers behind the call to act, and what it means for the two weeks ahead.
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The Heavy Cost of Small Talk: Syntactic Complexity and the Environment
A standard Google search costs about 0.3 watt-hours. Generating an AI response can cost ten times that — and politeness, filler and vague phrasing all add tokens. Self-attention scales quadratically, so every pleasantry compounds.
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4 Minutes, 4 Proofs: Why Are We Certain That Climate Change is Human-Caused?
The confidence of the scientific community rests not on one argument but on several independent lines of evidence that converge. Four fingerprints — in the atmosphere, the carbon itself, the scale, and the models.
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