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This shouldn’t be depressing; it means the cost advantage that renewables have is causing them to displace fossil fuel use, at least at a national level in the US. There’s the potential for that to start happening globally over the next year.
Trump solicited a billion dollar bribe from the oil industry, so now he needs to put money in their pocket.
The EU and China have both done it repeatedly when it makes sense for them.
This doesn’t have measures; it’s designed to create a situation where other countries are inclined to penalize the US for not meeting this goal.
This is one making the case that it’s not in the interest of the US to export more gas. It’s hopefully going to create a bit of a political barrier to approving more exports in the future.
People have actually done a lot; we’ve shifted from a path where were likely to see 4°C or more by 2100 to one where we’re likely to see something like 3°C by then.
It’s not yet enough, but it’s a lot more than nothing.
People have been talking about it for years, but it’s now written up in an official report
Only for relatively minor gun offenses — the murder charge is a state law violation, and the President can’t pardon those.
That’s only really true if you’re trying to make a huge change to society on your own. It takes being organized and working with others, as a group, to make the change happen.
It’s already a gift link. People won’t hit the paywall unless at least one of the following is true:
- You’ve disabled Javascript
- You’re running a browser extension which chops off the access token from the URL
- Your device desperately needs a reboot
Yes. But they’re afraid they won’t make as much money if they sell those.
He tried to describe research, and got it wrong. That’s going to happen some of the time when a politician (or any other non-expert) tries to describe science. It’s not a big deal unless they’re doing it consistently or intentionally.
He added: “Some of the models suggest to Dr [Wieslav] Maslowski that there is a 75% chance that the entire north polar ice cap during some of the summer months could be completely ice-free within the next five to seven years.”
Gore cited findings from climatologist Dr Wieslav Maslowski, a research professor at the Naval Postgraduate School (here).
However, it appears he mis-stated the forecast, according to reporting at the time.
In an interview with The Times published on Dec. 15, 2009 (here), Dr Maslowski said: “It’s unclear to me how this figure was arrived at. I would never try to estimate likelihood at anything as exact as this.”
According to the report, Gore’s office acknowledged after his speech that the 75% figure was used by Dr Maslowski as a “ballpark figure” in a conversation with the vice president several years before COP15.
It depends intensely on what you mean by “thermal runaway” — we can absolutely create a world which will support a much smaller population; we can’t really create a world where we boil off the oceans like Venus.
The author literally wrote one of the commonly-used intro texts about climate.
They’re well aware of feedbacks, and that’s part of the standard understanding that scientists have.
The court decision is indeed one to limit the use of seawalls to protect against property damage. There are limited cases where they’ll still be used, but it’s not going to be too widespread in California as a result.
I wouldn’t say that the movement towards state action weakened under Biden; we got some great examples of it, such as the requirement for renewables in Minnesota.
Sorry, but accelerationism only gets us a lasting fascism. It doesn’t get us the kid of stable world where people can substitute wind and solar for fossil fuels
Because it’s on a lunar calendar which doesn’t have leap months, the Hajj rotates through the seasons. This means that while we may see something similar in 2025, we’ll stop hearing about heat deaths for quite a while after that.