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@70sBachchan
Sep 14, 2020 • 10 tweets • 7 min read • Read on X
microbial life in Venus 1 Earth 0
Who else is feeling the cognitive dissonance of today's extraordinary claim of possible microbial life signature on Venus while we crash earth's ecosystems.

Good day to revisit @KenCaldeira's 2018 Carl Sagan lecture on our mad, bad, exceptional species! kencaldeira.wordpress.com/2019/02/10/car… ImageImageImage
Carl Sagan made his scientific name analysing Venus' atmosphere & proposed its runway greenhouse gas effect.

Life in the Clouds of Venus (1967)
nature.com/articles/21512…



A bittersweet day.
The question of life on earth's neighbours - Mars & Venus - rightly destabilises us psychologically. Historically, it is tied to our scientifc understanding of globalwarming & making tools to monitor it. From Sagan, to Soviet Vega program, to Jim Hansen... history.aip.org/climate/Venus.… Image
"Phosphine=sign of Life" is plausible only coz we know little of possibilities of early life. We guess E. coli makes it here, but don't know. Life made earth flip from CO2 to O2 before (Lovelock). Are we, with our hand stuck in the fossil jar, too, early life?

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Many congrats to Jane Greaves & her team who persevered for many moons in looking for life in the solar system. A stunning discovery that's sure to send us off flycatching to Venus again! And thanks to ppl at Atacama & Hawaii for observing on Corona planet ImageImageImageImage
Jane Greaves @jgreaves6 in a total BOSS MOVE is gonna be immortalized in history as the woman who may have discovered extra-terrestrial life... & doesn't even go on about it on twitter!!
Such a fun announcement:
cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/91…
The clouds are balmy (~30C) & at same pressure as earth. Is life "clinging on, tucked up inside water droplets in the clouds, the last remnant of a once rich ecosystem forced to adapt to a strange environment by a rapidly changing climate" lrb.co.uk/blog/2020/sept… @chrislintott
Never felt the Two Cultures divide more acutely. Ppl in science are thrilled/sceptical/raring to send probes to Venus while normies are full of Weltschmerz - no head, no heart, no soul. Life, truly is wasted on the living.
Master trolling by Russian space agency: “We believe that Venus is a Russian planet. Our country was the 1st & only on Venus. Our equipment was there,& it conducted research" rt.com/russia/500773-…

Will accelerate joint missions w NASA, ESA, pvt firms...

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“The market will solve climate”

The market:
“The market will solve climate”

The market: Electricity hungry BigTech created a credits "system is akin to buying the right from a fitter colleague to say you have cycled to work, even though you arrived by a car that runs on petrol." @CamillaHodgson
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Aug 2
Netanyahu assassinates Haniyeh in Tehran & Hezbollah’s Shukr in Beirut. We are on cusp of regional war in Middle East. Forces are being deployed, Defences readied, Redlines of targets communicated.

Thread to track ‘response function’ of each adversary
nbcnews.com/news/world/hez…
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2/ In Israel's corner are US, UK, Egypt, Saudis, Jordan &Abraham Accord (informal milvalliance) with oil Kingdoms - UAE, Bahrain.

They have communicated to Israel that they will defend Israel if it is attacked by Iran axis but will not participate in a war initiated by Israel Image
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Jul 26
Unbelievable vibe shift in the US with Kamala Harris
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The vibe shift, on the ground, in swing state Wisconsin

" Kamala Harris electrified the crowd in her first campaign rally as presumptive Democratic nominee. "I haven’t felt anything like this in many, many years,possibly since President Obama’s first run"
therecombobulationarea.news/p/in-west-alli…
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For 2yrs, gap between sentiment & economics widen. Did Kamala end vibecession? @kylascan
"There's layers to the cake:
How people expect things to be (expectations)
How things are supposed to be (theory)
How things are (reality)"

kyla.substack.com/p/the-vibecess…
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Jul 12
Latest @polycrisis dispatch is out. @kmac & I show just how deep the finance-ecology-geopolitics rabbit hole Hurricane Beryl goes. Sign up here:

buttondown.email/polycrisisdisp…
2/ Ecology: With super hot oceans, we are very worried about this Atlantic hurricane season. THIRTY storms are predicted plus minus 5, depending on el nino

Finance: Worry that coming devastation will shake insurance industry to the core just as 2004-5 did
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/globa…
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3/London, Zurich, Bermuda are home of reinsurance.
Insurance model rely on risks being 1 Uncorrelated 2 Calculable 3 Paid for by mkt returns elsewhere
But #globalwarming upends Insurance
It correlates risks (global!); creates catastrophic fat-tails; and crimps returns everywhere. Image
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Jul 4
what reading one book by Brett Christophers does to a mf
‘while it is possible to prevent businesses from doing profitable things, it is impossible to make them do things they consider insufficiently profitable’. Why do all this 'market failure' nonsense
ft.com/content/b2b6fb…
Brett Chrisopher's work on Rentier Capitalism has been eyeopening. Asset Managers like Blackrock now run the roads we drive on; the pipes that supply our drinking water; the farmland that provides our food; electricity & heat. Nice profile

@ddhitchens
compactmag.com/article/how-as…
Under capitalism, profit expectations drive companies’ invstmt decisions. Building solar/wind & selling the electricity they generate, however, generally is not a very profitable business What sort of returns do investors earn, asks Brett Christophers time.com/6958606/climat…
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Jun 4
Yes, BJP still sets the terms in the Indian parliament. But it will not have the decisive electoral majority of 2019-2024 lok sabha where it ran bills with zero opposition or consultation. After this election it will have to respect India’s opposition and democracy
India's stock market slides. Their logic?
BJP not winning in a landslide -> forced to have a NDA coalition government that will inevitably have to be more pro-welfare
--> hence the BJP cannot do nakedly pro-rich liberal reforms --> Oops, sell sell sell

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Adani's reversal tells you everything.
"In 9yrs of Modi’s tenure, Adani’s wealth grew from $8bn to $137bn. In 2022 alone, he made $72bn, which is more than the combined earnings of the world’s next 9 billionaires" ht @AnnPettifor

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

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