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Jan 14, 2025 | 
nature.com | Mike Hulme
CORRESPONDENCE 14 January 2025 In your Editorial on scientists advising governments, you state that “Improving global science advice … needs people with better training and skills for the job” (Nature 636, 8; 2024). But there is no perfect handbook for effective science advice — and there never will be.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
azure.microsoft.com | Yvonne Muench |Mike Hulme |Steve Sweetman |ISV Journey
The Microsoft commercial marketplace offers AI solutions to enhance data interaction, streamline processes, and accelerate innovation for businesses. It’s no secret that AI is transforming the way businesses operate. It’s revolutionizing both how applications get built, and what they can achieve—opening the door to exciting innovation, with developers at the center of this transformation.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
business.outlookindia.com | Mike Hulme
Take the example of forests. In 2021, at COP26 in Glasgow, driven by the rush to demonstrate commitment to Net-Zero ambitions, a wide coalition of nations committed $12 billion over the next four years to halt deforestation. But forests are not only sinks for carbon dioxide. And the effect of ‘halting deforestation’ not only protects a carbon sink. For many communities in the Global South, the harvesting of wood from forests provides their income and their energy.
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May 21, 2024 | 
techcommunity.microsoft.com | Mike Hulme
AI is driving a generational shift in applications, shaping and redefining every application, while forming the core of a new, previously impossible, class of intelligent applications. The expectations for AI applications continue to grow more ambitious: IDC forecasts a billion new logical applications to be built by 2028[1]. Increasingly AI is playing a defining role in these new applications.
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Mar 4, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Peter Christie |Kurt Cobb |Countercurrents Collective |Mike Hulme
In 2019, an independent international science group—the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services—announced that about 1 million species around the world are threatened with extinction. The number, based on a consensus by hundreds of experts and other researchers from 50 countries, made headlines around the world when it was included in the group’s global assessment of biodiversity.
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Jan 16, 2024 | 
iai.tv | Mike Hulme |Simon Dalby
2023 was the hottest year on record. Climate change is rapidly changing the natural world and will soon also change the world order. Temperature increases may initially benefit some countries, making agriculture possible in previously barren lands. But what will ultimately determine the future balance of power is the degree of dependence on fossil fuels, argues Simon Dalby. Record breaking weather events in numerous parts of the world in 2023 have made it clear that climate change is accelerating.
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Oct 4, 2023 | 
thenewatlantis.com | Mike Hulme |Nicholas Clairmont |Roger Pielke |Matt Frost
Sign in or Subscribe Now for audio version Mike Hulme, a Cambridge professor of human geography who has served on the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and holds a certificate for his contributions to that body’s climate science from when it was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, is no climate denier. And yet time and again in his new book he is at pains to preempt the charge that, actually, he is.
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Oct 4, 2023 | thenewatlantis.com | Mike Hulme |Nicholas Clairmont |Roger Pielke |Matt Frost
Sign in or Subscribe Now for audio version Mike Hulme, a Cambridge professor of human geography who has served on the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and holds a certificate for his contributions to that body’s climate science from when it was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, is no climate denier. And yet time and again in his new book he is at pains to preempt the charge that, actually, he is.
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Aug 25, 2023 | 
wcfcourier.com | Mike Hulme
Most will be familiar with David Letterman’s "Top 10" lists, where he would – in reverse order – count down his answers to that night’s topic. I have chosen as my topic SECURE 2.0 Act Changes to Employer Sponsored Retirement Plans (mostly, find the bonus item related to 529 college savings accounts). The most immediate changes are listed last. SECURE 2.0 was passed last December and will affect employers and employees now and well into the future.
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Jul 24, 2023 | 
thetimes.co.uk | Mike Hulme
Towering above New York’s Union Square, a giant clock 80ft wide counts down “the critical time window remaining for humanity to act to save itself and its only home from the ravages of climate chaos”. As I write, just 5 years, 363 days, 8 hours, 56 minutes and 56 seconds remain before “climate chaos” ensues. This ticking clock, and others like it, feeds the climate doomism that seems to have gripped many people’s imaginations in recent years, especially those of teenagers and young adults.
