Nations that continue sacrificing power on the altar of Net Zero will not lead the AI revolution. They will watch the future being built elsewhere.
As the 2026 El Niño begins lifting global atmospheric temperatures, another major natural cycle is moving firmly the other way: Solar Cycle 25 is now clearly descending from its maximum.
Arctic sea ice has surged into October, with 2026 now at the highest extent for the date in the past 20 years.
The climate is capable of abrupt change on timescales measured not in centuries, as modern warming usually is, but in years.
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The nations rejecting AI will be vanquished by AI leaders. Hope it’s US and not China.
Manipulating binary code at some fantastic rate…every 2 nanoseconds? Will that really make the planet fantastically more richer than those same manipulations at, say, 5 nanoseconds? Those numbers are just an illustration, the import is the ratio of difference, whatever that might actually be.
And in any event, AI’s presumed wonders could by had at a fraction of the cost if the real goal was knowledge-based instead of world domination.
Yes. Instead of waiting an hour for a radiologists to view the x ray AI can do it in seconds.
BUT…SKYNET is my fear.
A portion of my point is AI can already do so many things fantastically fast (tho needs to work on accuracy) is a bit more speed & capacity worth the additional exponential increase in cost?
Presumably one reason why they Rhine is carrying less water than it has done in a lot of previous years is that more water is being extracted for irrigation which will be needed more this year due to above average temperatures for long periods of time.