Dear ChatGPT: Are you a climate solution? Or climate problem?

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🗓️ 7 December 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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AI is a powerful tool for climate science. It’s also a dangerous distraction.

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0:00.0	Hey Nate Hedgy. Hey Taylor Grumby. So I want to take you back to 1990. This is the World Cup
0:08.5	semi-final, England versus West Germany and the score is tied.
0:13.0	So it will go down as a one-one draw this semifinal and someone will lose on the penalty shootout and go to Rome.
0:21.0	Tens of millions of people across the UK are watching live
0:24.8	when England midfielder Chris Waddell steps up to take a shot. And if he does not
0:30.6	score, West Germany will win the game.
0:33.4	Here goes Waddell.
0:35.2	Oh there, it's West Germany.
0:37.8	Over the net.
0:38.8	Waddell.
0:40.0	And England's dreams of emulating their achievements of 1966 ended by penalty failure.
0:47.0	Guess what happened next in the UK? I'm imagining people printing t-shirts with Chris Waddell's face on it and a big slash
0:54.7	through it. That probably happened but I mean like literally what happened next is
0:59.2	that moments after this goal electricity usage in the UK surged by 2,800 megawatts.
1:07.0	As somewhere over 1 million angry Brits all went into the kitchen and turned on an electric tea kettle at the same time.
1:14.1	Give it to the English to angrily make tea.
1:27.0	So, uh, tea. So there's actually a name for this phenomenon. It is called TV Pickup.
1:29.0	I've also heard it referred to as the Great British Kettle Surge.
1:32.0	And even though it's happening less now... referred to as the Great British Kettle Surge.
1:32.5	And even though it's happening less now
1:34.8	because so much TV is on demand,
1:37.0	it does happen after live events,
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