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Native Alaskan communities reeling in wake of Typhoon Halong’s remnants    » Yale Climate Connections

Native Alaskan communities reeling in wake of Typhoon Halong’s remnants    » Yale Climate Connections

With the isolation of winter approaching quickly, relief efforts are in high gear across two remote Native Alaskan towns in far southwest Alaska after a devastating storm surge plowed into the coast on Sunday, October 12. The water was pushed inland by fierce onshore winds associated with the remnants of Typhoon Halong, which had gained new life as a powerful …

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Central Atlantic disturbance 95L likely to develop » Yale Climate Connections

Central Atlantic disturbance 95L likely to develop » Yale Climate Connections

A tropical wave designated Invest 95L by the National Hurricane Center, or NHC, is speeding west-northwest at about 15-20 mph across the central Atlantic. The wave is expected to steadily develop this week, becoming a tropical depression or tropical storm by Thursday, when it will be nearing the northeastern Leeward Islands. Satellite images on Monday showed 95L was well-organized, with …

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New Yale Study Finds AI Has Had Essentially Zero Impact on Jobs

New Yale Study Finds AI Has Had Essentially Zero Impact on Jobs

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Ever since OpenAI’s ChatGPT was introduced in November 2022, experts and executives have been predicting that it and other AI models will eliminate untold jobs — forecasts that seem, at a first glance, to have been borne out by the plethora of tech sector layoffs in the wake of its debut. …

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Yale study • The Register

Yale study • The Register

Yale researchers say that despite the anxiety about AI taking people’s jobs, there’s very little evidence of it actually happening. Economists with Yale’s Budget Lab, a non-partisan policy research group, took a look at how US employment has changed since the November 2022 debut of ChatGPT and the sequent release of other generative AI models. They saw nothing to be …

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Evaluating the Impact of AI on the Labor Market: Current State of Affairs – The Budget Lab at Yale

Evaluating the Impact of AI on the Labor Market: Current State of Affairs – The Budget Lab at Yale

Evaluating the Impact of AI on the Labor Market: Current State of Affairs  The Budget Lab at Yale AI is not yet replacing workers in the US, researchers find  CNN Over the last decade, we’ve invested in over 20 unicorns. The machines will take millions of jobs—but they’ll never lead like a human can  Fortune US jobs market yet to be seriously disrupted …

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Bermuda braces for a pounding from strengthening Hurricane Imelda » Yale Climate Connections

Bermuda braces for a pounding from strengthening Hurricane Imelda » Yale Climate Connections

Hurricane warnings are flying for the island of Bermuda as a strengthening Hurricane Imelda barrels toward a close encounter with the island, expected to occur early Thursday morning. As of 11 a.m. EDT Wednesday, Imelda was centered about 340 mi (550 km) west-southwest of Bermuda, heading east-northeast at 20 mph (31 km/h) with top sustained winds of 100 mph (155 km/h) …

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Climate change is accelerating, scientists find in ‘grim’ report » Yale Climate Connections

Climate change is accelerating, scientists find in ‘grim’ report » Yale Climate Connections

The amount of heat trapped by climate-warming pollution in our atmosphere is continuing to increase, the planet’s sea levels are rising at an accelerating rate, and the Paris agreement’s ambitious 1.5°C target is on the verge of being breached, according to a recent report by the world’s top climate scientists. “The news is grim,” said study co-author Zeke Hausfather, a …

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Another round of weird peak-season quiet in the Atlantic tropics » Yale Climate Connections

Another round of weird peak-season quiet in the Atlantic tropics » Yale Climate Connections

We’ve arrived at the peak week of hurricane season – the traditional midpoint of the Atlantic’s yearly activity is September 10 – but you wouldn’t know it from the Tropical Weather Outlook issued by the National Hurricane Center, or NHC, on Monday, September 8. The headline: “Tropical cyclone activity is not expected during the next 7 days.” As we reported last …

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