Rust Never Sleeps / George Morrison 🇨🇦
@rustneversleepz
Intersection of climate science, economics and investment of rapid decarbonization. Investment pro. Contributor @skepticscience Easily found on twitter clones.
(long) 🧵: • Noted climate physicist personally dives into cost-benefit Integrated Assessment Models (IAM's) - DICE and others. •Writes own simplified version! Derives *intriguing* results! A 🧵tour exploring his investigation and - slightly provocative? - conclusions!
Excellent article - As Stephen Gordon, Economist, Laval states; "The more you know about supply management, the less you like it. So of course the dairy and poultry cartel have worked hard to make sure no-one understands it." #supplymanagement
Ryan Cardwell: Supply management isn't free nationalpost.com/opinion/ryan-c…
Adaptation Insight from a corn seed industry insider on the 'stack.....
In which me and @atrembath LARP as @PatrickTBrown31 to explain that the big new Nature study doesn't say what the authors or media say it does. What does it actually say?🧵 breakthroughjournal.org/p/will-climate…
Great explainer by my colleagues @lrntex @atrembath on the buzzy Nature paper from mid-June--a case of author/journal science communication so skewed it left many folks with major misperceptions of what the paper actually claims re: future crop yields under climate change.
In which me and @atrembath LARP as @PatrickTBrown31 to explain that the big new Nature study doesn't say what the authors or media say it does. What does it actually say?🧵 breakthroughjournal.org/p/will-climate…
“This sounds not great until you remember that background yield trends are very great.” Also great is this entire analysis by @lrntex and @atrembath.
In which me and @atrembath LARP as @PatrickTBrown31 to explain that the big new Nature study doesn't say what the authors or media say it does. What does it actually say?🧵 breakthroughjournal.org/p/will-climate…
and "climate" is custom-made for this wisdom, because there are *so* many data series of different "indicators" to select from - and regional renderings of each! - you can *always* scan for short-term data that confirms or disconfirms - as you choose! - your long-term priors.🤷🙄
short-term data that confirm my long-term priors are leading indicators of my truth short-term data that runs counter to my long-term priors are low-signal noise through which all civilized observers should obviously look
short-term data that confirm my long-term priors are leading indicators of my truth short-term data that runs counter to my long-term priors are low-signal noise through which all civilized observers should obviously look
Michael Pettis, again in FT, ignoring how prices adjust. Pro-tip: Write down a model. Check your equilibrium conditions. 🧵 of what happens when you don't
Usually when I see someone saying something awful is capitalism they are describing something that 1) is genuinely awful 2) is a consequence of material scarcity and 3) has gotten much much less bad under capitalism
Does carbon capture and storage (CCS) work? The question that I get the most, and a fair one. My answer is always yes, however, plenty of folks on here, and in the real world™️say no. Who's right? A thread on what I mean by "CCS works"👇
If only there were some sort of mechanism to signal to people which skills are relatively scarce...
Mike Rowe: “We’ve been telling kids for 15 years to learn to code.” “Well, AI is coming for the coders.” “It’s not coming for the welders, the plumbers, the steamfitters, the pipefitters, the HVAC, or the electricians.” “In Aspen, I sat and listened to Larry Fink say we need…
Fascinating insight here from Stefanie Stantcheva: "People with more formal education are less likely to see the world as zero-sum but the pattern flips among the highly educated: those with PhDs often show the strongest zero-sum beliefs"
In America young people, city-dwellers and holders of doctorates are among the most likely to see one group’s gain as another’s loss, writes @S_Stantcheva. In a guest essay the Harvard professor explains why economist.com/by-invitation/…
The clock in the background lmao
New York City Mayor Eric Adams shares a glimpse of his morning routine on Instagram, June 2025.