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One of Australia’s most prestigious universities promised to divest from fossil fuels in 2016. It later revised this decision to say it would only divest from coal, allowing the country’s biggest oil and gas company, Woodside, to fund and name a center. As that partnership comes up for renewal at the end of 2025, students and faculty are pushing the university to reconsider.

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The key thing here is that the less overshoot the better, and the amount of overshoot we can afford is small.

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“All models are wrong” could just mean that all models include some idealizations or abstractions. And just as Box says, models that employ such idealizations and abstractions can still be advantageous. Indeed, a highly idealized model that leaves out tons of real-world processes will be much easier to understand than a model that tries to capture, say, every gust of wind and every drop of rain.

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A Senate tax package softens some blows imposed on renewables by a House version of the bill. But it still terminates many credits for clean power.

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