Seems that many people (including science funding bodies) still don’t get that if we want to reach a global warming target of 1.5°C, huge changes are needed right now. According to the UN, global carbon emissions reductions of around 55% are needed until 2030. That’s in nine years!
Couldn’t resist since it’s almost December 🙂
Turns out that many people have wildly unrealistic ideas about the effectiveness of their actions to limit carbon emissions. To make a dent in your carbon dioxide emissions do the following: get a new heating system, insulate your home properly, stop eating meat and stop flying if you can avoid it! Did I mention that this is serious?
Data from here.
Re-done this old cartoon from 2015. Still hasn’t changed much; still approaching usefulness. Makes Szpylbert think about the 10x rule associated with Intel’s Andy Grove. It that says that for something new to be a big success, it must be ten times better than the existing alternative. Some way to go for 3DP…
For more see this great Harvard Business Review article from 2006.
Nothing can escape a hermetic seal – but what with a hermeneutic seal? Tadaa! Ba Dumm Tsss! … see what I did there? … whatever… tried to be funny … enough budget humour for today.
After being a bit upset about politics in the UK and the US earlier this year (with a lot of angry posts and tweets) Szpylbert is now resuming his activities with a little less focus on politics… YAY!
One of Szpylbert’s weirder creations. Meet Dorbonokon the space terrorist. Not sure what he wants, though. Available here:
https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/He-will-destroy-your-space-station-by-Szpylbert/64552826.NL9AC
Szpylbert on the sorry state of English politics… and yet another attempt to artistically deal with this piece of work over the Christmas holiday. Took a few tries to draw a good frontal Boris but got there in the end…
Joking aside: The middle of a pandemic is not the moment to have an uncontrolled Brexit. Viruses mutate and unforeseen things happen. Brexit must be delayed immediately.
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