Saturday, December 13, 2025

Urban Mobility: CAVs

Good article here about how CAVs (connected autonmous vehicles) can be integrated into new urban mobility systems within 'smart' cities. Yes, a lot of techo buzzwords here, but worth a read.

Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03931-7



The Future of GIS?

Well, it was just a matter of time!

Thursday, December 4, 2025

Losing the Climate Info Wars?

Good stuff here: Losing the Climate Info Wars?

"The strategy is not subtle, a recent study found. Climate skeptics present their position as “projecting rationality, authority, and masculine self-control” while those who acknowledge global warming “are depicted through emotionally charged, feminized, and irrational imagery,” and labeled “alarmists” who propose radical solutions.

Political campaigns deploy the same playbook. Republicans frequently claimed the Biden administration was trying to “emasculate” American drivers by forcing them into electric vehicles. Lee Zeldin, Mr. Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency administrator, has labeled climate change a “religion” instead of what it is: a matter of physics.

Taylor Rogers, a White House spokeswoman, said that Mr. Trump was pursuing “energy addition, not energy transition.”

“The President has set a strong example for the rest of the world by reversing course on the Green Energy Scam and unleashing our natural resources, like beautiful, clean coal and natural gas, to strengthen our grid stability and lower energy costs,” she said, citing arguments that many economists dispute."

Elizabeth Kolbert & John Stewart

Always worth a watch & read!