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The New Yorker-Science & Technology.

"Bill McKibben on the Year in Climate News." Views expressed in this science and technology update are those of the reporters and correspondents.  Accessed on 14 December 2024, 1457 UTC. Content and Source:  https://www.newyorker.com. Please check link or scroll down to read your selections.  Thanks for joining us today. Russ Roberts (https://hawaiisciencejournal.blogspot.com).   View in browser  |   Update your preferences In today’s newsletter,  an uncertain future, and then: •  Dawn of the bionic man •  Patients as human profit generators •  The past year’s Internet gods Hotter and Hotter Scientists don’t yet understand why temperatures have been steadily spiking above the projections. But what they do understand is bad enough. By Bill McKibben Illustration by Sean Dong Living through the onset  of rapid global warming involves learning to roll with the punches. Increasingly, those are quite real and painful—this year saw, again,...