Tom Clarke

Nov 13, 2024 | channel103.com | Tom Clarke |in Baku

And as the whine of private jet engines fades in the skies above the capital Baku, their teams of negotiators get down to the real work: trying, once again, to keep the global climate talks from falling apart. Most of them are already tired. They were up until 4am the day before the talks began just trying to get all 197 countries represented here to agree on the agenda for the two weeks of negotiations ahead.

Nov 8, 2024 | msn.com | Tom Clarke

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Nov 8, 2024 | news.sky.com | Tom Clarke

After a year of ever more extreme weather and continually rising global temperatures, it's no wonder this year's UN climate summit has been called - once again - the "last-chance saloon". Yet swaggering out through its swing doors goes president-elect Donald Trump. The timing of his election win, with its promise to withdraw the US from the global climate process, couldn't be worse.

Nov 6, 2024 | news.sky.com | Tom Clarke

"The future is gonna be fantastic," America's unlikely kingmaker posted on X, above a photograph of his Starship rocket blasting into space. The world's richest man bombarded his 200m+ followers on the platform he controls with pro-Trump content, some true, much false. There's also evidence that, since Mr Musk endorsed the president-elect, X algorithms amplified pro-Trump content.

Oct 25, 2024 | news.sky.com | Tom Clarke

Amid the hum of cooling fans and squelch of vacuum pumps, a new home for 12 quantum computers has opened in Oxfordshire, as part of a bid to put the UK ahead in a global race to harness the technology. Quantum computers promise to solve problems too hard for even the most powerful supercomputers - like those requiring vast numbers of parallel computations like complex weather simulations, the binding of drugs to their targets, or the vagaries of financial markets.