Please enjoy this executive at one of America's biggest gas companies openly admitting that expanding supply leads to increased demand for fossil fuels
He is not wrong: frantic expansion of fossil fuel supply worsens climate change. Tax it, cut subsidies, wind it down
Please enjoy this executive at one of America's biggest gas companies openly admitting that expanding supply leads to increased demand for fossil fuels
He is not wrong: frantic expansion of fossil fuel supply worsens climate change. Tax it, cut subsidies, wind it down
It's so funny because the economics are clear as day. Collectively investing in the well-being and education of the next generation offers a great return on investment. But everyone is too busy investing into the latest pyramid scheme or bubble I suppose.
Today we were talking about busses, and my daughter worried that if less people buy cars, car factory workers will lose their jobs. I gave her a handwavy explanation that public transit generates jobs, but I don't actually know the labor economics of that. Anyone care to weigh in?
The amazon turning from carbon sink to carbon source is terrifying. Really driving home the climate feedback/tipping points thing.
> a growing fire-climate feedback, demonstrating how regional extremes increasingly shape the global carbon budget and complicate pathways to climate stabilization.
The U.S. Energy Secretary just said on stage at @nytimes.com Climate Forward event that “there are not oil and gas subsidies" in response to a good question from David Gelles. “It’s not a subsidized industry.” Uh. @oilchange.bsky.social@oilchangeus.bsky.social
Just saw my profile among the list of contributors to ggplot2 4.0.0 - that is a project I want to be affiliated with for sure. Pretty sure it's just for a ticket I opened. It was resolved within a record two days or something, too. The beauty of a well-running free and open-source software project.
Utilities really are not rising to the occasion, maybe energy demand from new data centers (AI anyone?) is to blame? Tons of new commitments to build gas power plants - 118 GW capacity planned by 2035. Only 29% of coal capacity poised to be retired by 2030.
I'm hearing lots about insurance companies absorbing meteorologists/recent grads. This industry is in a math war, and the math says things are getting much worse by the year. That's the real economics of climate catastrophy/adaptation were facing.
Unrelated, but my favorite German word is "vorauseilender Gehorsam" or anticipatory compliance. When you take action in expectation of orders that haven't even been given to you or even if you're not in the line of command, to avoid trouble or even opportunistically. For examples see German history.
My first academic article was on the dictatorship of Uzbekistan inventing a group called "Akromiya" that did not really exist but which they used to arrest anyone with whom they disagreed under the pretext of "terrorism". Just bringing this up for no reason whatsoever!
We/many countries could have easily adopted renewable energy 2/3/x times as fast, it's really sad. In many ways it feels like a half-assed attempt by a high school student who is mostly just whining. Drop in the bucket compared to the cost of new submarines, jet fighters, and other vanity projects.
Now there's a "doomism" of fatalistic acceptance that we're too late and it's just "too hard." We cannot afford that. It's the death throes of the largest industry in human history. Without the story of intentional obstruction, this piece is true but only as far as it goes. Sad. 4/4
Vaccine tourism (to Canada) was already a a thing during COVID, but this is on an other level. I'm having to wait two weeks for things to get sorted, and that's with a big asterisks, others will not be able to get the shot at all in Florida.
This is what we refer to as futurewashing in our green washing paper. Guess what you can claim anything you want about the future, how could anyone know. Without specific plans it has to be considered an empty promise. I didn't anticipate fossil fuel to fill that rhetorical void but makes sense.
okay this is getting silly now. An 11 gigawatt (!!!!!!!!!!) data centred, powered by fossil fuels but an obviously shallow, bad-faith empty promise to eventually build some nukes (only there to justify the new fossil fuelled power station they're building)
