In case you need to hear it today: after 32 years on the job, I know as much about the planetary shitshow we've sailed into as pretty much anyone — and I still think the future can be better than the present for most humans. It's not too late. It's still early. #thesnapforward

Some very good news from India! amp-cnn-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.cnn.co…

6.2 tonnes of pangolin scales. Good grief.

gizmodo.com/chevron-is-hir…

thetimes.co.uk/article/a9578b…

The U.S. has a vastly greater wind resource than China. It seems the U.S. admin is much more focused on preserving the dying fossil fuel industry than giving America the huge economic advantage of locking in clean, renewable energy capacity.

20 years ago, we submitted a paper to ACM SIGGRAPH about surrounding actors with LEDs to light them with images of virtual environments, now a key component of virtual production stages being built and used around the world. #TBT USC ICT pauldebevec.com/Research/LS3/

This is one of the most important cases of judicial corruption in U.S. history. If the #DOJ does not respond it means one thing.. the capture of all 3 branches of the government by the fossil fuel industry is complete, and we no longer live in a free and fair democracy.

"It's not an investment if its destroying the planet." ~Vandana Shiva. RT if you agree. #ActOnClimate #climateemergency #climate #energy #GreenNewDeal #BuildBackBetter

Another leak, of hundreds.

Capturing animation in #RealTime and combining our entire #virtualproduction process to create a 60-sec ad in 4 weeks for the #LunarNewYear. #YearOfTheTiger. 🐅Watch the full making-of here! 🎬 tinyurl.com/mt37dn5m #filmversatile #versatilemedia #motioncapture

How can fiction help people think about solar radiation modification? Eliot Peper, author of nine novels, including “Veil,” “Cumulus,” and “Bandwidth,” explains: carnegiecouncil.co/346jwpH

Revealed: The 11 slides that finally convinced Boris Johnson about global warming carbonbrief.org/revealed-the-1…

New research shows that there are TOO MANY CHEMICALS ON EARTH. Head over to the The Guardian to check out First Dog on the Moon's fun take on our recent research showing that the safe planetary boundary for pollutants, including plastics, has been exceeded.buff.ly/3oiT3w9

Today EU by declaring fossil fuel gas as green - no longer hides the fact that is run by the fossil fuel industry for the fossil fuel industry - this will lock Europe into decades of fossil fuels at a time when Earth climate is reaching co2 levels not seen in millions of years

Control Group xkcd.com/2576

See also, alexsteffen.substack.com/p/the-year-ahe…

Yes, fragmentation of habitat does greatly increase the risk of extinction in mammals, especially in the tropics, as does the condition of land adjoining patches of habitat. So much for eco-modernism.. nature.com/articles/s4146…

BREAKING: climate change since 1980 is nearly twice as bad as previously calculated 🧵