benjhm

Non, désolé, c'est il y a quelques années et n'étant pas spécialiste de ce domaine, je ne l'avais pas noté, bien que cela me rappelle clairement.
Mais a mon avis ce n'est pas contre-intuitif - des gens ont besoin de se déménager pour poursuivre des emplois, des écoles, des milieux différents, d'espace, il faudrait pas être pénalisé pour cela. En angleterre que je connais meilleure que la flandre, le taux equivalent ("stamp duty") est ± 1%, les gens en se plaindre quand même, mais ils déménagent plus fréquemment qu'ici.

Si les décideurs sont intelligentes, il feront une rampe de ces taux, sinon il y aurait un 'blip' centré autour de la transition (bas avant, haut après - car qui voudrait acheter juste avant cela?). Mais au longue terme, cela réduira l'énorme taxe sur les changements de plan, les vies réelles (en contraste avec les gens statistiques des vies simples, pour qui les décideurs typiquement optimisent).

I don't buy this. I'm still using SMTP on my own domain and it’s working fine, a bit of spam but not unmanageable, real messages get read. Main challenge is digesting so many potentially-interesting list messages, indicating email's continued dominance for professional topics. Seems this author has another agenda.
Having said that, it's a pity the world never agreed a protocol for micro-payment for emails (and for many other services), which would resolve the spam problem, and not be a burden for honest users.

Quand la Flandre a diminué les taux des droits d’enregistrement, ses revenues fiscales ont augmenté, parce que le nombre de déménagements a augmenté - les vies des gens sont bloqués par ce taxe sur mobilité (qui en Wallonie est le plus haut du monde sauf un pays de l'Asie de sud-est si je me rappelle bien).

Point de vue d'un visiteur d'un pays voisin en planifiant voyages en famille, la problème c'est que c'est si complexe, rechercher d'options différentes pour chaque région.

It's good to respect efforts and successes, the curves have bent and we need to explain that as it’s hard to perceive through the inertia, but the world is bigger than US, and stage eight needs a lot more elaboration ...

Ayayay. Je ne comprends pas comment vooruit, également ces 'engagés' acceptent cela.

I'm no fan of geoengineering (see this paper from 1996 ) but these specific proposals seem local, potentially reversible interventions to slow down melting, so could be worth investigating. Even if we get to net zero and stabilise the global surface temperature, it would take much longer (decades-centuries) to stabilise ice- melt, deep-ocean warming and consequent sea-level rise, there is a lot of inertia.
Their second approach focuses on meltwater, but thatt has to flow somewhere, maybe better focus to keep ice solid - e.g. I'm surprised no mention is made of the ice-surface albedo - e.g. minimising soot, algae. Minimising aviation-cirrus from planes passing over greenland might also help.

That's great, I'm optimistic about the peaking. Nevertheless 53% coal is still far too much, and May is easy compared to cold winters. A lot of coal is also used to make steel and cement, maybe also declining, but could be good to see relative numbers.

So, what do we do with the greenest areas? Cover them with splodges of grey, of course...

It's about future oil and gas expansion (FOGE), what matters to the atmosphere is the total - identifying potential threat. Effectively multiplying FOGE by area (as shown) doesn't make sense, but neither does FOGE per capita (as most is exported, not consumed locally). I'd suggest just a sized blob for each country - then can show some other dimension with the color.

As I understood all the land borders of Azerbaijan are still closed, since covid, at least until october - so is there still any train running ? Maybe a deliberate policy to keep out enviro-ngos and 'hippy traveler' types who might carry infectious democratic ideas (including to the COP)?