Links for 9/7/24

A new plan seeks to protect California’s coast against a rising ocean: It doesn’t require sea walls

Power-hungry AI is driving a surge in tech giant carbon emissions. Nobody knows what to do about it

A Brief History of South American Surf Rock

What Earth Could Look Like in 2050 If We Do Nothing About Climate Change

How climate change is messing up the ocean’s biological clock, with unknown long-term consequences

Marc Andreessen Is Wrong About Everything

Lab-grown meat is now approved for sale in the US. Will it help the climate?

Links for 5/26/24

Surf music has been infiltrated by artificial intelligence, and it’s probaby going to get worse.

Tech’s Plan to ‘Ethnically Cleanse’ San Francisco w/ Gil Duran

The Strange World Of… Joe Meek

Here’s what record-breaking temperatures looked like around the globe

CLASSIC? Neil Blender, Jason Jessee, Jay Adams, Steve Caballero, Tommy Guerrero Mini Ramp sesh

1970s skateboarding London-style. Hot Wheels

Scientist identify the phonetic alphabet of whales

How Not to Act in an Emergency

Interview: Why global support for climate action is ‘systematically underestimated’ – Carbon Brief

Epic 4-hour documentary about YouTube plagiarists sends them scurrying desperately away

Sun, sea and rock’n’roll: how Torremolinos got its groove back

Links for 9/9/23

The Black Cloud + audio book

Die schwarze Wolke

‘They Will Never Change on Their Own’: Top Oil Giants Have No Serious Plans to Curb Emissions

‘Pulp Fiction’ music consultants open up about the friendship, mixtapes that helped start a soundtrack revolution

Is the Gulf Stream collapsing?

Australian authorities warn locals to stay away from the mysterious metal cylinder on the beach

Fungi stores a third of carbon from fossil fuel emissions and could be essential to reaching net zero, new study reveals

Reparations for climate change? Some think oil companies should pay

Meet the ‘gummy squirrel’ and thousands of other newly discovered deep-sea species – in pictures

Tiki Mugs at Mount Longboards (New Zealand)

Finding the First Americans

Links for 7/15/23

Climate Denialism Has Burnt To a Crisp

Who is responsible for the climate crisis?

The biggest gold rush in history is about to start in the deep sea – leaving devastation in its wake

How electrifying steam could cut beer’s carbon emissions

“The Dawn of Everything”: David Wengrow & the Late David Graeber On a New History of Humanity

‘The Job Is Going to Die’: Songwriters Say More Change Is Needed to Survive in the Music Industry

Classic Instrumental Surf Music Timeline – Surf’s First Wave

Shifted Banks | Slade Lawrence

Nuclear Fusion Won’t Save the Climate

Infants Exposed to Excessive Screen Time Show Differences in Brain Function Beyond Eight Years of Age

Step Back in Time: The Forgotten Family Shoe Store Closed for 40 Years

Links for 12/23/22

Opinion: Life hacks from India on how to stay cool (without an air conditioner)

A not so gentle intro to web3

CMusic Books

RIP Kemp Aaberg – the influential surfer, writer, and gem of a human

Salba & The Strange History of Mt. Baldy Pipe!!

Arthur ‘Toots’ Anchinges – Shaper

Notox Surfboards have the Eco Answer

Max Beard Single Fin Longboarding

“The Gargantuan Rogue Wave” of the open ocean

Hi-Tide Recordings

Short King Has Mean Style

Some Native Americans Had Oceanic Ancestors

Under the Beach, the B’ernal Spheres | Lapsus Lima

Plans to sink oil rigging off Ningaloo

Toots: A cinematic portrait of Arthur Anchinges’ world.