Sheng Wang | Don't Mess With Someone Who Wearing Kirkland Pants #shorts YouTube video by Comedy Corner

"He for real."

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"if you see this, post a picture you took at sunset."

Shh! 🤫

The mainstream media has finally flipped, painting California as a problematic place and running stories about people leaving the state.

Let's not discourage this!

Offsets on fire Wildfires are once again threatening California’s climate goals.

Bitter Irony of the Day:

The forest burning in California right now was used as an off-set by the fossil fuel industry. #ParkFire

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On Deck for Treasury: The Inflation Reduction Act’s New Approach to Clean Electricity Tax Credits This issue brief explains the Inflation Reduction Act's 45Y and 48E tax credits for clean electricity generation and describes potential challenges to implementation.

This RFF brief seems to indicate that double-dipping on 45Q would be ruled out. Also it seems that the zero life-cycle emissions requirement would disqualify Allam-cycle plants (due to upstream methane leaks), but one wonders how Treasury under Trump would interpret....

www.rff.org/publications...

oof. good call out. Allam-cycle power plants (which burn gas) seem like another potential taker of technology neutral tax credits. And they might be able to double-dip with the 45Q tax credit.

Turns out the new InfluenceMap is great, but doesn't cover promotion of CCS....

Thanks! As it happens I’m looking for documentation to support the claim that the industry is promoting CCS as a delay tactic, ie some sort of PR analysis or reporting on internal industry documents. Hope it’s in this report!

Thanks! Is this your data set? Could you sort it chrono? Would be interested to see any trends over time.

A tropical disturbance in the force How our polluted media is covering the Florida floods

The Hill Heat round up of media coverage (aside from USA Today) is here (written up by @climatebrad.hillheat.com)

hillheat.news/p/tropical-d...

The Expanding Bullsh*t Effect Tropical storm Barry has provided another opportunity to roll out the latest fancy for the climate confused, a new meme called the…

So, the next time you hear someone talk about the “expanding bull’s-eye effect,” you might call out expanding bullsh*t.

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Denier's point to the “expanding bull’s-eye effect," claiming that as cities grow, flooding will increase with asphalt.

But, according to the USGS: “Under these conditions, essentially all of the rain that falls, whether on paved surfaces or on saturated soil, runs off and becomes streamflow.”

Regardless of the record-rainfall, "more asphalt" is a classic response by climate deniers. However, that explanation just doesn't hold water. There’s not much difference between asphalt and saturated soils when it comes to run-off, and it doesn’t take much to saturate the top level of soil.

Nearly 4 inches of rain fell in an hour in Sarasota – and the 1 in 1,000-year record event could happen again Even more storms are expected to hit the region over the next few days after Sarasota saw the most rain ever recorded in an hour.

How more asphalt drove record-breaking rainfall, USA Today does not explain.

www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/sar...

Media coverage on the role of climate change in the record-breaking deluge and flood that hit Florida yesterday is spotty - at best (see Hill Heat). But the worst reporting might be from USA Today which was silent on the connection, instead quoting a resident blaming more asphalt for growing floods.

National Bail Out

To honor my mother, Dona Mae, in memoriam on Mother's Day, I just donated to the National Bail Out Mother's Day campaign to bail out "as many Black Mamas and caregivers as we can so they can spend Mother’s Day with their families where they belong!"

You can, too: www.nationalbailout.org

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: How to Pre-bunk Climate Disinformation and Help Inoculate the Public. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Researchers studying climate disinformation agree: “Inoculation” is one of the most effective options for countering it, and the first step toward inoculation is “pre-bunking.” In this webinar, paneli...

We've got a great lineup for next Thursday's webinar on pre-bunking #disinfo:

@ketanjoshi.co, Phil Newell of @climatenexus.bsky.social, @dharna.bsky.social of the Guardian, and moderator @amywestervelt.bsky.social of Drilled Media

Join us on April 11 at 11am ET!

The main thrust of the post (biogenic methane is fundamentally different than fossil methane) is not wrong.

However, the post fails to mention a KEY aspect of the fundamental difference: Unlike reducing CO2 emissions, reducing methane emissions from cows would LOWER the global temperature.

Great thread, thanks! If I may, the wording in the first post: "thus touching the Paris Agreement limit" might lead casual readers to a conclusion different from where the thread lands. The "limit" refers to - as you later highlight" - long-term average temperature.

Tips for moving from Xitter to Bluesky Before you start following people, fill out your profile! Bio, PFP, banner, and post at least 5 to 10 things. Just reuse your top 10 banger tweets—recycling is encouraged! This way, when people see you followed them and they check your profile, they’ll know what you are about and might follow back. Turn off NSFW filters in Moderation > Content Filtering Find your friends using a tool like skeet.labnotes.org or Sky Follower Bridge. Not perfect, but they’ll find the majority of the people you were following. Turn on “show posts from my feeds” in Settings > Home Feed Preferences. This will add random posts from them to your main feed, but tweaked to your liking, no ads and BS. I recommend the Catch Up feed (kinda like a “best of”). Tweak Reply Filters to something that works for you, also at Settings > Home Feed Preferences. This shows replies from people you follow to anyone else on your main feed. (ran out of characters! OCR will work though)

Did some other site's owner try to monetize the Holocaust and you finally GTFO? Are you feeling a bit lost in this new website? Here are some tips for you. Share widely for all the newcomers.

The paper contrasts the choice of a 2050 next-zero target by advanced countries against the choice of a 2060 target by developing countries. However, isn't the developing country choice more in line with the UNFCCC? While the advanced country target not? Given the IPCC global target of 2050?

Great overview, thank you.

"There are lies. There are damned lies. And there are Integrated Assessment Models." - me/Disraeli

And it’s the impacts that we care about, it's the impacts that drove the Paris Agreement. 

The impacts of global warming of 1.5°C were NOT witnessed in 2023.

If you think things are bad now, they will be far worse at 1.5°C of warming. And the damages will escalate dramatically from there.

The impacts of global warming at 1.5°C set out by the IPCC were calculated on the basis of a long-term elevation of global temperatures 1.5°C above pre-industrial, NOT a temporary one-year spike bumped up by a major El Niño event.  2/n

One clarification to this otherwise excellent AP story:

The definition of 1.5°C of warming as a *long-term* elevation of temperatures (instead of just one year) is NOT just a "technical" distinction.

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Climate Nexus | U.S. Oil/Gas Methane Emissions Science Tracker Explore over 90 recent studies addressing oil and gas methane emissions in the U.S.

Thanks! As it happens I curate a database of studies related to this question, which I was I was particularly interested to hear your perspective on this issue. It's here: gas.climatenexus.org/methane-scie...

Thanks to you and your co-authors for the great and very relevant work. You write that natural emissions partly explain "the gap between the BU anthropogenic and total TD emissions" for the USA. Would you address the rest of the gap? Others have suggested that systemic undercounting is an issue...

Today the amazing Kajol Srinivasan, comedian from Mumbai, is having me on her Kampfyre show at 21:00 IST/16:30 CET/10:30 ET

Bring your questions & thoughts on the climate crisis & how to make social change happen.

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Emily Grubert brings the receipts!

COPs are such a complicated evil necessity (if only because they reflect the world).

Still, a lot of the "good stuff" gets released at COP, much of it is lost in hullabaloo. The media can only channel so much.

Anyways, here is one good one:

www.smithschool.ox.ac.uk/news/heavy-d...

#COP28