45. Specifically, we've decoupled economic growth from fossil energy consumption. Coal demand has collapsed. Oil use is flat. Natural gas use is growing but < GDP, even as standards of living have gone up. That's happened because of higher efficiency and decarbonization.

33. That's even more true for exported natural gas which also has to be liquefied since the liquefaction process is so energy intensive. Roughly speaking, you need nearly 120 units of gas to make 100 units of LNG. So more CO2 and magnified impacts of upstream leaks.

23. Here's the report he links to in order to prove his point, that compares the carbon intensity of various global oil production regions. www.energyindepth.org/report-u-s-b...

The relative cleanliness argument falls under petroganda, and is part of the industry’s effort to delay the transition off dependence on their products.

10. In other words, in 2012 new production benefited domestic producers AND consumers. But today, new production only benefits producers. That's a fundamentally different policy and political environment. And note also that domestic consumption is basically flat for the last 20 yrs.

Good choice of phrasing!

Don’t go givin’ that waste of cytoplasm any ideas!

WTF?!?!

I heard someone on a radio program say that he isn’t the type to call someone evil. Why not? If what they do is evil, over and over and over again, then why not call them evil? And what Trump and the money and minds behind P2025 have done to the climate is evil.

Thanks. I’ll take a look at this.

They’ve been corporatized. It’s the same thing that has been going on for a long time in the businesses regulated by the FDA.

I don’t have a high opinion of any woman who would date, let alone wed, these MAGAt leaders.

I call it an alternate definition of virtual reality. 🙁

“Rivers.” Plural. Yikes. Where can we find historical data on atm rivers/“pineapple expresses”? I’m wondering about the series we have had, but I’m relatively new to the region, so I don’t have many years of personal experience.

Well said. I’m sorry this is happening.