silence7 2 hours ago • 100%
The current position of the NYPD is that some random black guy wandering past a crime scene after the cops shot up a crowd decided to steal the knife that the cops considered to be key evidence. This is, to put it mildly, somewhat less credible than the claim that a crow tried to steal a murder weapon.
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This likely means that the knife never existed in the first place, and was made up by the cops in order to justify shooting into a crowd.
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Switching California from gas to electricity, one neighborhood at a time | Clean-energy advocates hope a bill awaiting Governor Newsom’s signature will jump-start projects that shut down gas pipelines
silence7 3 hours ago • 100%
The bankruptcy took out a big chunk of their executive team, and induced a huge investment in grid upgrades. So completely reasonable actually.
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Switching California from gas to electricity, one neighborhood at a time | Clean-energy advocates hope a bill awaiting Governor Newsom’s signature will jump-start projects that shut down gas pipelines
silence7 4 hours ago • 100%
PG&E literally went bankrupt because they didn't inspect a powerline, and the cast-iron hooks holding it up swung slowly back and forth over a century until they wore through, dropping a live powerline to the ground, sparking a fire, and causing towns to burn down.
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Mirroring how ABC’s debate moderators treated climate change, cable news networks aired 31 hours of post-debate coverage without a single mention of climate
silence7 4 hours ago • 100%
What I think actually got it into the 2020 election news coverage was that people figured out when and where high-dollar fundraisers would be, and showed up outside them to ask the candidates about climate as they entered or exited.
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Eating less beef is a climate solution. Here's why that's hard for some American men
silence7 5 hours ago • 50%
silence7 5 hours ago • 92%
It's not even his political opponents doing it; just people who are wildly unstable who think they can attain fame by shooting him as a result of Trump's own long history of implicitly promoting violence.
This means that it's not going to be possible to simply assume that jobs produced from renewables are going to able to drive public support for an energy transition; we're going to need to attach decarbonization policy to a broader guarantee of employment, wages, and working conditions.
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> But we shouldn’t run too deep into the rabbit holes of Trump’s supporters’ logic. He is himself a vortex of instability and violence. As his supporters like to put it, he likes to “stir the pot.” And he does. Attention, in his vision, is the only real currency in business or politics or media. So he keeps upping the ante and pushing new limits to get it, like a heroin addict he has to keep upping the dose to get the same fix. The externalities of that behavior have been lapping up, splashing onto countless other people for almost a decade. Now they’re also splashing up onto him. Trump’s supporters ask rhetorically, if it’s not Biden and Harris who are doing it, are you really saying that Trump is inciting people against himself? The answer is actually yes. He’s now twice almost been consumed by the fires he himself is lighting.
silence7 8 hours ago • 100%
Or...he wasn't trying to be funny, but was trying to induce an assassination attempt aimed at Biden or Harris, and hiding behind a fig leaf of "humor" to avoid prosecution.
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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13388973 > > Preliminary data shows that while global carbon emissions are continuing to rise, China’s emissions may already be peaking — the longtime climate villain turning the corner on carbon before the planet as a whole does.
> Preliminary data shows that while global carbon emissions are continuing to rise, China’s emissions may already be peaking — the longtime climate villain turning the corner on carbon before the planet as a whole does.
This has been the issue with methane for a while: it's worthless at the wellhead because there's a huge amount being extracted. Given how miserable the extraction is to be around, it would really help to have a way to create regional prosperity without the extraction.
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I'll note that the last attempt was by somebody who was basically a nihilist school shooter type who saw that he might be particularly famous if he killed the President.
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13368242 > > Although Africa produces only a fraction of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, Africans bear an exceptionally heavy burden from climate change, according to the World Meteorological Organization. > > > > And adapting to it will cost sub-Saharan Africa $30 billion to $50 billion annually over the next decade, or 2 to 3 percent of the region’s gross domestic product, it said. > > > >“The impact of climate change is what we’re witnessing right now,” said Olasunkanmi Okunola, a scientist whose study focuses on flood risk management and climate adaptation. “There’s no way we can prevent major disasters from happening, but there are steps we can take to lessen the effect.”
> Although Africa produces only a fraction of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, Africans bear an exceptionally heavy burden from climate change, according to the World Meteorological Organization. > > And adapting to it will cost sub-Saharan Africa $30 billion to $50 billion annually over the next decade, or 2 to 3 percent of the region’s gross domestic product, it said. > >“The impact of climate change is what we’re witnessing right now,” said Olasunkanmi Okunola, a scientist whose study focuses on flood risk management and climate adaptation. “There’s no way we can prevent major disasters from happening, but there are steps we can take to lessen the effect.”
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The paper is [here](https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196\(24\)00175-X/fulltext) and the press release is [here](https://www.bristol.ac.uk/cabot/news/2024/health-report.html)
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silence7 2 days ago • 95%
It's on voters to impose them by keeping him out of office
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There has been a fair bit of discussion about what parts of the electrical supply system need to be publicly owned to enable all households to move to public ownership in order to achieve full decarbonization. The system operator, which manages day-to-day decisions about generation, is a key one in pretty much all of them.
silence7 2 days ago • 100%
The problem is that we'll still have a Republican-appointed Supreme Court. It takes more than just electing a Democratic President to change things there; it takes a willing Congress and (maybe) a few justices dropping dead.
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‘Democrats are losing’: a battle on EVs could cost Kamala Harris votes in Michigan | Trump promises to end electric vehicle mandate. Harris has been silent, risking swing state autoworkers’ votes
silence7 3 days ago • 100%
Absolutely, but the executives started claiming that EVs would require less labor to manufacture. It's utter bullshit, but they managed to panic a bunch of the workers.
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silence7 3 days ago • 97%
- Big batteries need cooling during charging.
- A/C units need to do heat exchange.
- Aesthetics
silence7 3 days ago • 100%
It's not as fast as I'd like either, but it's a lot better than the original USPS plan to replace them with diesel trucks.
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The Hague becomes world’s first city to ban fossil fuel-related ads
silence7 3 days ago • 100%
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Climate Change Will Not Spare the Rich
silence7 3 days ago • 75%
Per the article:
as the planet warms further, the increase in risk actually falls heaviest on those swimming in money rather than floodwater.
It may not kill, but it's going to be incredibly expensive.
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‘Democrats are losing’: a battle on EVs could cost Kamala Harris votes in Michigan | Trump promises to end electric vehicle mandate. Harris has been silent, risking swing state autoworkers’ votes
silence7 3 days ago • 100%
It's more that there needs to be a lot more discussion of the fact that converting to EVs doesn't mean fewer jobs. So the autoworkers unions don't need to fight it.
silence7 3 days ago • 62%
That 'sprint to the middle' happens in every general election campaign. You can't get elected if you don't do it.
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Is Inequality the Key to the Climate Change Debate? In his new book, the economist Thomas Piketty argues that the world can’t stop climate change without addressing issues of inequality.
silence7 3 days ago • 100%
There are examples of societies deciding to do something about that. The New Deal comes to mind.
silence7 3 days ago • 100%
To very different degrees
A ton of Democrats have turned down that money.
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A Uruguayan company teaches people how to turn regular cars into EVs
silence7 3 days ago • 100%
Very surprised at the price claims; in the US, doing a conversion has been expensive enough that it's rarely done
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Democrats seek to tax fossil fuel companies over climate change
silence7 4 days ago • 100%
The two actions are not mutually exclusive.
silence7 4 days ago • 100%
A lot of people don't pay attention to politics, and don't realize things like the need to register to vote since their last move, since their name changed when they got married, etc. They just want to shake it out.
silence7 5 days ago • 100%
silence7 5 days ago • 100%
I figure it's the spray-tan which doesn't go on right next to the eyes.
silence7 5 days ago • 96%
A big chunk of Swifties are in their 30s at this point
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Will Harris go after Big Oil? The candidate has kept her climate policy vague so far, but her record as a prosecutor gives climate activists hope.
silence7 5 days ago • 100%
She likely needs to win in Pennsylvania to win, and opposition to fracking would cost her votes there.
Attitudes in the state are changing, but not yet at the point where she can openly oppose fracking and win.
silence7 5 days ago • 100%
Taylor Swift endorsed Biden in 2020. She did not endorse Clinton, though apparently considered it.
silence7 6 days ago • 100%
This was likely prepared well before the debate, and timed to reach a large audience.
silence7 6 days ago • 100%
This is why you chew your food kids!
One of the great pleasures of being a mammal
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5 Climate Questions for the Candidates Ahead of the Presidential Debate | Here’s what the Times climate team would ask Harris and Trump about climate change, energy policy and the environment.
silence7 6 days ago • 100%
He'll spout words, likely ones which make it clear he's going to make good on his side of the oil industry's billion-dollar bribe.
Making that clear to people is likely a big deal
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Time to criminalize environmental damage, says survey
silence7 6 days ago • 100%
Version 1:
- The world is going to end real soon
- they expect to be raptured away to Heaven
- God put stuff on the earth for us to use up before the rapture
Version 2:
- Somebody else is going to suffer because of the environmental damage
- Hurting other people shows how masculine and powerful I am
- I profit from the damage
- Damage = good
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7 Takeaways From the Seemingly Endless Fire Season | While the Line fire burns in Southern California, what can we learn from how a changing climate has affected an expanding fire season?
silence7 6 days ago • 66%
There's a significant impact from the higher temperatures.
It's not just the management history, though that doesn't help.
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Inside the Anti-Climate Culture War Led by Jordan Peterson and Project 2025
silence7 7 days ago • 100%
That's a very plausible claim, but difficult to prove
silence7 1 week ago • 100%
A fair-sized chunk of this fall's electorate was too young to vote in 2016, and doesn't have a real sense of how awful he is, or how much has deteriorated over the past few years.
silence7 1 week ago • 96%
A lot of people don't pay much attention until shortly before the election.
His age and mental capacity can weigh on folks when he can't give a decent explanation of what he's going to do on a particular topic.
silence7 1 week ago • 94%
Mental capacity.
He's very good at tossing out free association, and showing that he's in touch with the latest racist meme.
Anything else? Not so much.
silence7 1 week ago • 100%
Also, they'll borrow huge amounts of money so the handful of people making 10 million can pay 500k less in taxes.
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US solar manufacturing capacity has quadrupled thanks to climate law
silence7 1 week ago • 100%
The IRA is absolutely a bill which uses capitalist mechanisms to achieve some decarbonization.
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Getting Off Gas, Block by Block | Trying to electrify a home can be hard. What if we instead focused on liberating entire neighborhoods from their reliance on methane gas?
silence7 1 week ago • 100%
I'd love to get rid of PG&E and have a publicly-owned utility instead, which doesn't charge the @#$@#% markup the PG&E gets to in order to pay an ever-increasing dividend.