Thursday, 25 June 2026

Extreme Heat?

Yes, really. The LSE event Extreme Heat: Improving governance and strengthening action around the world, “has been cancelled due to the red extreme heat warning issued by the UK Met Office.

Apparently, our homes and workplaces are all going to have to be retrofitted with air conditioning. I would be all for that, but I am not a Net Zero fanatic. Do they really not know?

Then again, they have no idea what is necessary for the manufacture of the steel without which there could be no wind turbines or tidal turbines, just as there could be no rigs, pipelines, or power stations.

And whether or not Jeff Bezos quite said it, they think that human water consumption is limiting the progress of Artificial Intelligence. This is of a piece with that.

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