Claims tracker
Real public claims, quoted verbatim, each tied to the piece that answers it or should. Answered means the model on the piece adjudicates it. Open means the desk has cited it and the piece has not yet. This is the desk's to-do list, in public.
- answered on the piece
“by the middle of July, the full extent of temporary buffers will have been exhausted, with an overall market adjustment of 7.1 mb/d ... crude prices could be $120 a barrel. Once markets expect the temporary buffers will be exhausted, the market price could rise to nearly $150 per barrel”
- answered on the piece
“Today I looked at $96 a barrel, people thought that was going to be $300 a barrel.”
- answered on the piece
“perhaps three million barrels a day of crude have moved today through the Strait of Hormuz”
- answered on the piece
“Fertilizers must be applied at specific moments in the crop cycle. If they do not arrive on time, yields are reduced, regardless of what happens later.”
- answered on the piece
“Every year we drain more than half of the Colorado River for cattle feed.”
- answered on the piece
“The value of the dairy and beef industries fed by Colorado-irrigated crops is totally negligible. We could just buy their water rights and retire them.”
- answered on the piece
“Once productive farmland is permanently dried up, getting that agricultural economy back is extraordinarily difficult.”
- open: should answer next
“The entire Western US water crisis could be fixed by ending alfalfa farming in the desert.”
Sukrit Ganesh (@SukritGanesh), X · 2026-08-22 · source · A call for leadership in the Colorado River Basin crisis ● live - open: should answer next
“take the water that is currently stored in Lake Powell, send it downstream through the Grand Canyon, and instead store it in Lake Mead”
Zanna Stutts, Glen Canyon Institute, as quoted by Newsweek (Joe Edwards) via KUTV; headline "Lake Powell Should be Drained to Save Lake Mead, Scientists Say" · 2026-07-07 · source · A call for leadership in the Colorado River Basin crisis ● live - cited, not yet modelled
“This Is Not a Test explores how to build and rehabilitate institutions capable of sustaining healthy relationships with the planet, biosphere, and each other.”
- cited, not yet modelled
“TimeLike is the first and only AI platform we know of that has been expressly designed to support cooperative model-based decision-making at scale.”
TimeLike Systems ● live - cited, not yet modelled
“someone created a site mapping which parts of the world will still be suitable for agriculture in 2100, farmland atlas. it scores over 5 million points, each calculated separately for different climate scenarios, up to 2100.”
The Farmland Atlas ● live - cited, not yet modelled
“A shipping strait seizing up on the other side of the world can shrink next year's rice harvest in Bangladesh, and until now no single tool let anyone watch that chain unfold.”
Harvest2Market ● live - cited, not yet modelled
“Bangladesh produces 7% of the world's rice based on recent five-year averages”
Harvest2Market ● live - cited, not yet modelled
“Infinite intelligence will not eliminate our need for natural resources, nor will it supplant them, because natural resources are those not produced by human intelligence.”
- cited, not yet modelled
“With the right support, citizen science has the potential to make science more open, collaborative and impactful.”
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