"Whether it’s climate change or a looming global recession, the script is the same: downplay, deny, and project confidence." Bessent and other Admin insiders "are wealthy enough insulate themselves from the effects of both rising temperature and economic catastrophe." @katearonoff.bsky.social
We have a new paper finding that parabolic trough solar thermal collectors with molten salt energy storage could reduce both costs and GHG emissions in process heat applications, particularly in regions with strong solar resources and sufficient land availability.
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A 2022 study found that children in households that used voice commands with tools like Siri and Alexa became curt when speaking with humans, often calling out “Hey, do X” and expecting obedience, especially from anyone whose voice resembled the default-female electronic voices.
Breaking: New study using observational constraints projects that the Atlantic Ocean circulation #AMOC will weaken ~50% by 2100, even for medium emissions and without Greenland melting. 🌊
More realistic models means stronger weakening - not entirely unexpected.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
We'll do almost anything to avoid building actual trains.
America is now a Mel Brooks movie.
“Open the Strait of Hormuz or I’m closing the Strait of Hormuz”
Someone please message JD to inform him that Nigel Farage has a selection of unusually attractive couches
I also beg him to visit France next year and strongly endorse Marine Le Pen or Jordan Bardella
A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric
I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.
An annoying Facebook post that reads: Today in New Zealand, 30 March, 2004, history Michael King was silenced by a fatal car crash at the age of 58. He was the author of 'The Penguin History of New Zealand' which was the most popular book of the year. Here he is being interviewed about that book as it launched. King made the point that the fashion trend of referring to our country's name as "Aotearoa" was a State imposition. He pushed back against it. Ironically, the title of his own book has now succumbed to the very same pressure!
My response: Rachael King Michael King did not "push back" against the use of Aotearoa, in fact used it liberally himself. Just because he lays out his understanding of the origins of the name, doesn't mean he thought it was not a legitimate name to adopt. Language evolves, and if this one word 'Aotearoa' gives us a Mãori equivalent of New Zealand to use alongside it, why is that a problem? He didn't think it was. Why should you use his words out of context to make a point that he didn't believe himself?
So frickin sick of these people taking our father’s words out of context for their own ends.
We have a pretty good understanding of the differences between GHG emission estimates, but when it comes to some sectors (e.g., land), estimates seem all over the place!
Why is this? @wflamb.bsky.social has you covered...
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“If you read that New York Times article on my resignation, some guy I’ve never met who’s calling me “Kate” — I guess we’re on first-name terms, guy I’ve never met — he’s saying it’s all the scientists’ fault.“ 😂
i genuinely get excited whenever i see @clairewillett.bsky.social talking about the vatican
i am not religious and not really even interested in religion i just love nothing more than a subject matter expert getting to put the breadth of their knowledge on display
my best guess is that a Trumpian Pentagon official, high on his own supply as they all are, thought "get your boss to play ball or we will do an Avignon on him" would genuinely intimidate AN 80-YEAR-OLD CARDINAL FROM FRANCE, which is perhaps the funniest thing anyone has ever done at the Pentagon
The Pakistani Prime Minister who was the intermediary for the ceasefire tweeted yesterday that it included Lebanon
The minimum level of action right now is calling your rep and and reminding them of their obligation to impeach
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“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.”
These are the words of the president of the United States, today.
The president speaks genocide. And so we too must speak. Not only about crimes, but about their legal punishment.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-presid...
Article 54 of Additional Protocol I - whose core principles are binding as customary international law even on states, like the US and Iran, that never ratified it - prohibits attacks on infrastructure indispensable to civilian survival, with only a narrow exception for objects used exclusively to sustain enemy armed forces.
Congratulation to Astronaut Christina Koch to be the first woman in history to get that far away from dangerous sexual predator Donald Trump.
Thanks, agree. It might feel like a good snarky joke in the moment, but risks slithering into disinformation (or giving voice to those who want to misconstrue the concept).
Yes I felt that the definition you suggested was focusing only on a shift btw sectors, not the overall reduction in throughput. The decline in GDP this reduction could entail needs acknowledgement and careful managing. I agree that this doesn't make it anything like a recession though!
According to @jasonhickel.bsky.social, "Degrowth is a planned reduction of energy and resource use designed to bring the economy back into balance with the living world in a way that reduces inequality and improves human well-being." So not simply a shift btw sectors but a reduction in throughput.
This is so, so well-articulated.
A strikingly blue lake nestled in green forest and grassy meadows; a yellow prickly Spaniard (Aciphylla colensoi) in the foreground on a hill overlooking the lake
There's a reason why Rotomairewhenua is also called Blue Lake. End of summer greetings. Nelson Lakes National Park.
The fossil fuel industry gets 11 million dollars every single minute in subsidies: buff.ly/3BmwdIh
How many more disasters does it address the problem? #ActOnClimate
#ClimateEmergency #climate #energy #renewables #endfossilfuels
“We believe in more pipelines and reducing emissions.”
We believe in more cigarettes and avoiding cancer.
Pretty wild how so many governments around the world staring down another fossil fuel crisis are like "Sorry this is no time to reduce fossil fuel use, don't you know we're in a CRISIS"
I see ClimateSky is doing another round of “does focusing on reducing methane emissions distract from reducing CO2 emissions” and I would just like to say emissions of both gases are still going up and emissions of both gases urgently need to come down
