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Hands-on jobs to grow fastest, because AI can't touch them

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World Economic Forum finds huge demand for brainbox skills, news for how it changes your role

Think tank and advocacy org the World Economic Forum has predicted strong growth in jobs that AI can’t replace, plus big demand for skills to automate those that can.…

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2024 Was the First Year Above 1.5C of Global Warming, Scientists Say

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Scientists said the world just reached a grim milestone: the first full year where global temperatures exceeded 1.5C above pre-industrial times. Reuters reports: The milestone was confirmed by the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), which said climate change is pushing the planet's temperature to levels never before experienced by modern humans. "The trajectory is just incredible," C3S director Carlo Buontempo told Reuters, describing how every month in 2024 was the warmest or second-warmest for that month since records began. The planet's average temperature in 2024 was 1.6 degrees Celsius higher than in 1850-1900, the "pre-industrial period" before humans began burning CO2-emitting fossil fuels on a large scale, C3S said. Last year was the world's hottest since records began, and each of the past ten years was among the ten warmest on record. Britain's Met Office confirmed 2024's likely breach of 1.5C, while estimating a slightly lower average temperature of 1.53C for the year. U.S. scientists will also publish their 2024 climate data on Friday. Governments promised under the 2015 Paris Agreement to try to prevent average temperatures exceeding 1.5C, to avoid more severe and costly climate disasters. The first year above 1.5C does not breach that target, which measures the longer-term average temperature. Buontempo said rising greenhouse gas emissions meant the world was on track to soon also blow past the Paris goal - but that it was not too late for countries to rapidly cut emissions to avoid warming rising further to disastrous levels. "It's not a done deal. We have the power to change the trajectory from now on," Buontempo said.

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Error'd: Not Impossible

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Someone online said we run a Mickey Mouse outfit. Angered beyond words, we consulted legal@disney.com and they threatened to find that guy and sue him. So to anyone else who thinks this column is Goofy, you should know that the world's definitive authorities insist that it absolutely is not.

But these guys? This website actually is kind of goofy, according to resolutioner Adam R. who crowed "Someone forgot to localize some text for the new year!"

 

Fellow resolutioner Brian says he "decided to learn some new skills for the new year, and this came up as part of the introductory lesson. Tip #1: pick a competent vendor."

 

"The unread email count was unusually high for a Sunday," noted an anonymous reader. Is "email inflation" a thing?

 

Greek Paul K. comes bearing this gift "Oh sure, lets leave debug on production, what's the worst it can happen? Greek museum fail."

 

"Maths is hard," muses Matthew S. "but the easy solution is just to make 42 be the answer to everything!"

 

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