As if microplastics weren’t already causing enough problems for humans and our environment, scientists have found they’re now hitching a ride on natural clusters in waterways, allowing them to travel further distances than previously thought.
— Read on www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/hitchhiking-microplastics-pollution-water-flocs/
Big oil firms knew of dire effects of fossil fuels as early as 1950s, memos show | Fossil fuels | The Guardian
Newly unearthed documents contain warning from head of Air Pollution Foundation, founded in 1953 by oil interests
— Read on www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/12/big-oil-fossil-fuel-warning
State files first-of-its-kind lawsuit against major industry: ‘Deceiving the public … when they clearly knew this wasn’t possible’
The state of California has made history after filing the first-of-its-kind lawsuit against ExxonMobil.
— Read on www.thecooldown.com/green-business/exxonmobil-lawsuit-california-plastic-recycling/
The overshoot myth: you can’t keep burning fossil fuels and expect scientists of the future to get us back to 1.5°C
The net zero approach of the Paris agreement has become detached from reality as it increasingly relies on science fiction levels of speculative technology.
— Read on theconversation.com/the-overshoot-myth-you-cant-keep-burning-fossil-fuels-and-expect-scientists-of-the-future-to-get-us-back-to-1-5-c-230814
Introducing Cerebras Inference: AI at Instant Speed – Cerebras
We are excited to announce the release of Cerebras DocChat, our first iteration of models designed for document-based conversational question answering. This series includes two models: Cerebras Llama3-DocChat, a large language model (LLM), and Cerebras Dragon-DocChat, a multi-turn retriever model.
— Read on cerebras.ai/blog/introducing-cerebras-inference-ai-at-instant-speed