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First Principles: Learning from Buffalo
Many people think that we followed the buffalo, when in fact the buffalo followed us.
Albert Bates
Mar 9
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The Talosian Origins of the Reality Distortion Field and Tucker Carlson
The spells don’t work on minor wizards.
Albert Bates
Mar 16
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Handing Handles to Vandals
Pandemic Box Score: China 4, USA 1
Albert Bates
Mar 29
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Gaia’s Way Out
Gaia is no dummy. She is in the process of shifting from supporting humanity to killing it off.
Albert Bates
Feb 10
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Who ya gonna call? Greenbusters!
ESG, they are coming for you
Albert Bates
Feb 5
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A Science Bomb Cyclone for the New Year
The model proposed by Hansen reveals ten degrees of heating is already baked into Earth’s surface temperature, but has been masked by aerosol cooling
Albert Bates
Jan 1
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Teenagers on Summer Break Earning Money Saving the Planet
The best carbon dioxide removal technology may be one you least expect.
Albert Bates
Aug 21, 2022
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Encountering Discontinuity on a Down Escalator
What if the transition to renewables fails?
Albert Bates
Jan 29
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Plugging a hole to the sky
Unfracking is a method of plugging orphan wells using biochar.
Albert Bates
Feb 25
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Foggy Forecasts for Clean Energy Futures
Can we build out renewable energy fast enough to avoid some nasty tipping points?
Albert Bates
Jan 22
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Professor Cobblepot’s Marvelous Final Engagement in the Freeverse Theater State
When you have two competing narratives, each hermetically sealed and intractable, about all you can do is live by your own best lights
Albert Bates
Dec 25, 2022
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Kobayashi Maru Aerosols
No one has solved the McPherson Paradox because it cannot be hacked. The only solution is doing something completely counterintuitive.
Albert Bates
Jan 15
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