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Eric Roston, Laura Millan, Julia Janicki @ Bloomberg:
Global Warming Impacts Are Outpacing Climate Models
The summer heat that killed tens of thousands in Europe, a record-breaking wildfire season in Indonesia, the protracted drought gripping the US Southwest: Many punishing consequences of climate change are arriving sooner, hitting harder and, in some cases, diverging entirely from what scientists have modeled.
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“These extremes are happening faster than we were expecting,” said Emma Howard-Boyd, the chair of the UK’s National Heat Risk Commission, an independent adviser to the government on how the country can be more resilient to high temperatures. As El Niño strengthens to unprecedented levels, “We will probably be shocked at the scale of events that we experience and at the general lack of preparedness.”
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Climate scientists recently began running the seventh generation of models, with analyses expected to roll out with more frequency in the next year. AI advances may also bring surprises to researchers probing these questions. Some wildcards will remain, including uncertainty around how clouds or aerosols behave, said Tiffany Shaw, a professor of atmospheric science at the University of Chicago and co-lead author of the comprehensive review of models and observations. But they will offer higher geographical resolution, translating global trends into impacts for specific regions.
“It’s incontrovertible that the models are getting better,” Shaw said. “Nobody really knows what’s good enough.”
(Eric Roston, Laura Millan, Julia Janicki @ Bloomberg more…)
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Lena Cohen, Matthew Guariglia @ EFF:
New Records Obtained by EFF Expose More Problems with Medicare’s AI ExperimentNew records obtained by EFF expose additional issues with Medicare’s AI-driven prior authorization program and show why we need stronger legal limits around government use of automated decision-making.
(Lena Cohen, Matthew Guariglia @ EFF more…)
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Ernesto Londoño, Abdi Latif Dahir @ NY Times:
Somali Bodyguard Was Indicted in a Bid to Incriminate Ilhan Omar…
Mr. Mohamed’s lawyer, Bruce Rivers, said that prosecutors spent months trying to turn the bodyguard into an informant to bolster their case against Ms. Omar. In a move he described as shocking, Mr. Rivers said that prosecutors repeatedly told him and Mr. Mohamed that the investigation into Ms. Omar was “100 percent being run by 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.,” the address of the White House.
(Ernesto Londoño, Abdi Latif Dahir @ NY Times more…)
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Dean Blundell:
Putin’s Ambassador To Washington Is Dead and Moscow Won’t Say Where or How
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Sarah Jones, Jason Easley:
Democrats Were Stuck In Traffic, So Mike Johnson Closed Impeachment Vote To Save Pete HegsethKen Klippenstein:
Why Hegseth Is Hated by So Many Troops…
“Firing generals not on their ability but if they were a person of color, female or attended a covid meeting is totally political and has no place in the military Chain of Command.”
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Eduardo Baptista @ Reuters:
Military-linked Chinese university bought Nvidia H200 chips despite US blacklist
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Heather Cox Richardson:
Letters from an American – November 11, 2026The day that we now recognize as Veterans Day began at the end of World War I, when the armistice that turned into a lasting peace took effect on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. …
…In our day it has become a tradition for political leaders to honor veterans on this day, and today was no exception. Trump delivered a Veterans Day speech at Arlington National Cemetery, although he broke with the tradition of nonpartisan speeches and ended his speech with a defense of his war on Iran and a celebration of the attack on Venezuela that has given the U.S. control of its oil fields.
…Also unusual was the president using the solemn day of remembrance to raise money. …
After the ceremony at the Arlington National Cemetery, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and his wife, accompanied by his chief of staff Ricky Buria, deputy chief of staff Patrick Weaver and senior adviser and deputy assistant Tami Radabaugh, stopped for pictures by the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. One of the nation’s most sacred monuments, the tomb is guarded constantly by a Tomb Guard from the U.S. Army’s 3rd Infantry Regiment, known as “The Old Guard,” and visitors are supposed to remain silent at the tomb.
The group was chatting and laughing, and as Haley Britzky, David Brooks, and Natasha Bertrand of CNN reported, when their laughter floated back to the Tomb Guard, he stopped his carefully choreographed patrol to turn to the offenders and call out: “All visitors will maintain an atmosphere of silence and respect at all times.”
…But in New York City, Mayor Zohran Mamdani had a different prescription for honoring veterans. “This Veterans Day, let us renew our commitment to those who served by confronting the injustices too many veterans still face, from homelessness and isolation to the threat of deportation,” he posted. “Our responsibility to those who served does not end when they come home.”
(Heather Cox Richardson more…)
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Lauren Daley @ Rolling Stone:
Bob Dylan’s Meeting With Pope Leo: People Fixated on the Hood But the Hands Spoke VolumesIn a new interview, the Jesuit priest who brokered the summit between the pope and the poet shares more details of Dylan’s hood, his hands, and that multi-colored Bic
…“In 1963, a young man just past 20, in New York, told a bomb to its face that it was the work of human hands,” Spadaro says. Sixty-three years later “the author of that sheet of paper — which no one had wanted to buy at auction — shook hands with his most authoritative reader. For anyone who believes in the weight of words, it is a small parable. The hood, by comparison, is a side note.”
(Lauren Daley @ Rolling Stone more…)
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