Coursera is "suspending all business with Russia"

"Nyet, tovarich"

I’d forgotten about this course that I’d enrolled in about 18 months ago in the middle of the stupid lockdowns but didn’t proceed with as I decided to do a few courses on cycling infrastructure via Amsterdam University instead.

The Coursera team is of course fighting this war as if they were a soldier in Kiev. There’s therefore no need for any of them to actually go there.

The main problem is that purely due to their extensive Arctic estate Russia does a lot of the Arctic science in the world. And they have a different attitude than the Western Universities do as well where methane release is not considered to be as important to the world as CO2 in the atmosphere. In the meantime methane has gone from about 800 parts per billion about 150 years ago to 2,000 parts per billion now. And in parts of the Arctic it has spiked well above that in the last few years. And ice loss in the Arctic is extensive in the last few decades (it actually is, ignore the idiots who say that it isn’t) raising …