Hi Inessa, Thanks for offering! I definitely want to participate but I would *love it* if an actual climate scientist or even *any* atmospheric scientist would step up to chair the session! I have not thought all that deeply about this problem, and mostly I feel helpless and frustrated.
If no one else volunteers though I'm happy to do it. I much prefer the Wednesday session. Let's book it in! Thank you all, Juan. > On 2 Jul 2020, at 8:38 pm, Inessa Pawson <albusc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, Juan! > I’m still in the process of scheduling live networking sessions at SciPy’20 > and would be happy to set up one on the topic of Python for Climate Action. > We could host it on July 8th or 10th at 5 - 6 p.m. CDT. Would you be > available to moderate it? > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Juan Nunez-Iglesias <j...@fastmail.com <mailto:j...@fastmail.com>> > To: Discussion of Numerical Python <numpy-discussion@python.org > <mailto:numpy-discussion@python.org>> > Cc: > Bcc: > Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2020 18:58:11 +1000 > Subject: Re: [Numpy-discussion] Proposal to add clause to license prohibiting > use by oil and gas extraction companies > Hi everyone, > > If you live in Australia, this has been a rough year to think about climate > change. After the hottest and driest year on record, over 20% of the forest > surface area of the south east was burned in the bushfires. Although I was > hundreds of kilometres from the nearest fire, the air quality was rated as > hazardous for several days in my city. This brought home for me two points. > > One, that "4ºC" is not about taking off a jumper and going to the beach more > often, but actually represents a complete transformation of our planet. 4ºC > is what separates us from the last ice age, so we can expect our planet in 80 > years to be as unrecognisable from today as today is from the ice age. > > Two, that climate change is already with us, and we can't just continue to > ignore the problem and enjoy whatever years of climate peace we thought we > had left. Greta has it right, we are running out of time and absolutely > drastic action is needed. > > All this is a prelude to add my voice to everyone who has already said that > messing with the NumPy license is absolutely *not* the drastic action needed, > and will be counter-productive, as many have noted. > > Having said this, I'm happy that the community is getting involved and > getting active and coming up with creative ideas to do their part. If someone > wants to start a "Pythonistas for Climate Action" user group, I'll be the > first to join. I had planned to give a lightning talk in the vein of the > above at SciPy, which, and believe me that I hate to hate on my favourite > conference, recently loudly thanked Shell [1] for being a platinum sponsor. > (Not to mention that Enthought derives about a third of its income from > fossil fuel companies.) Unfortunately and for obvious reasons I won't make it > to SciPy after all, but again, I'm happy to see the community rising. > > Perhaps this is derailing the discussion, but, anyone up for a "Python for > Climate Action" BoF at the conference? I can probably make the late-afternoon > BoFs given the time difference. > > Juan. > > [1]: https://twitter.com/SciPyConf/status/1276898138977193984 > <https://twitter.com/SciPyConf/status/1276898138977193984> > > -- > Every good wish, > Inessa Pawson > Albus Code > ine...@albuscode.org <mailto:ine...@albuscode.org> > > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
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