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[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

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
[–] [email protected] 0 points 16 hours ago

There's a significant impact from the higher temperatures.

It's not just the management history, though that doesn't help.

 

Title & subtitle come from the article version of this newsletter

 

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Unfortunately, we're at a point where we can't afford to sit pick and choose which greenhouse gas, or which major source to tackle; we need to cut emissions of all major greenhouse gases, and end every major emissions source.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

That's a very plausible claim, but difficult to prove

 

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The paper is here

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

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.

 

The big risk on this kind of adaptation measure is that when you displace food crops with non-food crops, the conversation of unfarmed land into farmland is a likely consequence, along with the CO2 emissions that the land use change causes.

So far, this is a very limited-scale change, but potentially a big deal if it covers a much larger area.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Which is why lobsters have been shifting northward, with populations rising on the north edge of their range, and declining on the southern end.

Not exactly what we want humans to be forced to do.

 

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Per the article, they'll go where people want; not automatically down into "it's God's plan"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Thanks. I somehow missed the copy-paste

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

Two ways:

  • If Republicans control both houses of Congress, they can simply change the law via reconciliation
  • He can tie up the spending in pointless bureaucratic procedure indefinitely
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

He was actively involved in the negotiation of the Inflation Reduction Act and its implementation, only taking on this role earlier this year.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

He lives in the US, so it's not a "visit"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

What do you mean? This is Brassica oleracea, just like that thing over there.

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