🌍🚨 We cannot solve the climate crisis without demand-side solutions!

The @ipcc.bsky.social is crystal clear: changing what we demand and how we live could reduce global emissions by 40–70% by 2050. This is not a marginal add-on. It must be at the heart of climate policy🧵
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Some updates on Blue Frontier's promising air conditioning technology. This uses liquid dessicants as a form of energy storage, separating the dehumidification and cooling processes, and allowing for the energy intensive portion of dehumidification to be done off-peak.

Seeing swathes of climate / energy people confidently quoting Google AI overviews, Grok / ChatGPT output, and 'community notes' on X as authoritative sources.

Truly, I feel nothing but whiplash and horror at how fast so many people who once valued actual sourcing + real evidence have flipped

I found this history fascinating, especially how the US under Bush I a) pushed to create the IPCC to center government representatives, not scientists, in UN climate action; b) used the IPCC to block binding emission targets and carbon taxes on rich countries, which seemed imminent in 1988.

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But New Delhi’s record auction, testing the waters, found unattractive terms kept bidders away — so the renewable energy ministry in 2019 sweetened that offer by adding more capacity, raising the price limit and allowing longer construction time.

Not true universally. Electric vehicles (EVs) are marginally less environmentally efficient compared to the electric grid because their battery round-trip efficiency (RTE) results in slightly higher electricity consumption than the energy they deliver.

Something really interesting came across my desk a while ago. This is against the normative discourse that BESS has lesser environmental impact than Pumped Hydro Storage.

Your daily reminder: ChatGPT is not a search engine. It does not "know" anything: it smashes words together in plausible sounding way, but it does not have (and never will have) any ability to check whether something is true or false

Using it for anything beyond "re-word this headline" = failure

Please take some time to read about the origin of the 1.5C target. It didn't originate from naivety or stupidity. Those who put it forward certainly didn't see it as "pointless" then, and would probably still not.

@climatehome.bsky.social

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Now I made it! The starter pack you've been looking for: Critical legal scholars, broadly understood - Marxist, LPE, postcolonial, TWAIL, feminist, queer approaches, etc., to law. I'll keep adding names, so feel free to tell me if you (or others) should be there (or shouldn't).

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1. Building a comprehensive mobility framework for Indian transport utilities which are underfunded and overworked.

2. How self, society and systems are vectors of transformational change.

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In August 2024, CSIR-NEERI, with NITI-Aayog, recommended that no additional equipment, such as FGD (Flue-Gas Desulphurisation), is required for sulphur dioxide (SO₂) emission control.

What a fantastic session on Odisha’s second round of distribution privatisation by Ashwini Chitnis, CSEP.

We really gotta build this mf from the ground up #whoneedsElon #bluesky

Bowser or Wario

Not feeling existential, is this how normal people feel?

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First tweet.