Jessica Lovering

I said the study was good, but the design was flawed by today’s standards, even if it had been published! But for a lot of these other links, the published studies rely on bad statistical methods and are not well-controlled

But that’s an example of a good study, albeit still flawed by today’s standards. RFK Jr. isn’t uncovering hidden studies like that, his reports cited totally fabricated studies! Yes, our understanding of nutrition evolves over time. But people believe lots of things now based on junk science

In well-controlled studies, what looks like an effect from reduction in seed oils or ultra-processed foods is actually just less calories. You are very much proving my point with your, ”I don’t need science, I have my personal anecdote” 😀

There *are* lots of people who want to restrict seed oils or put warnings on fructose, etc. And that’s not based on good nutritional science. That’s all I’m saying!

No one is denying anyone anything. But to say this decision is based on science is just not true. The studies are not well-designed.

This is not about personal choice at all. I was talking about people coting junk scientific studies to support policy changes. The studies saying seed oils are bad for you aren’t much better than Tylenol causes autism in their quality

So, I think everyone in my social feeds was rightfully mocking the tylenol-autism link, without really grasping that it's the exact same kind of poorly-designed studies behind a lot of the links they do still believe. It may not have the same harms, because tylenol is a harm reduction tool, but...

Toddler and baby sucking their thumbs on the floor

Toddler and baby riding bouncy cows.

Toddler and baby sucking their thumbs in bed

These are my only pets at the moment…

Energy Sprawl or Energy Efficiency: Climate Policy Impacts on Natural Habitat for the United States of America Concern over climate change has led the U.S. to consider a cap-and-trade system to regulate emissions. Here we illustrate the land-use impact to U.S. habitat types of new energy development resulting ...

Tak! Men vi introducerer ikke begrebet LUIE. Denne artikel er fra PLOS One et årti tidligere: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Hmmm, is nuclear generation shrinking? 2024 generation was higher than the previous few years, and 2025 expected to be higher with Vogtle-4 online.

That's great! But hard to distill that into a simple metric when you are aggregating across thousands of projects, some are net positive and some net negative for the landscape.

Sorry, was *not* to provide a conclusive final number

The point of this paper was to provide a conclusive final number, i.e. this is how much land each technology needs. But to provide a range to community planners and policy-makers to help them in their local decision-making. They will have a much better sense of what type of land is being impacted

Yes! Dams are used for lots of things! One choice we had to make with the data is we only looked at dams where the primary purpose was electricity production. There were many more dams where the primary purpose was flood control, or irrigation...and they also made some electricity

That's why we included the rooftop solar metric, so that you can see. The reality is that most utility-scale solar doesn't do anything with the land underneath; it would be difficult to, and a majority of the solar is large-scale, ground-mounted. But we have both metrics, because both are useful!

We calculated both footprint and spacing, because both are useful metrics of impact on landscape. Sure, the land between wind turbines *can* be used for agriculture, if they are on agricultural land. But if they are in a sensitive wildlife area, you want to know the full extent

Energy Sprawl or Energy Efficiency: Climate Policy Impacts on Natural Habitat for the United States of America Concern over climate change has led the U.S. to consider a cap-and-trade system to regulate emissions. Here we illustrate the land-use impact to U.S. habitat types of new energy development resulting ...

There are some good ones that look at types of ecosystems impacted:
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

We talk about that in the paper, but it's very hard to incorporate something like that into a metric as it will be different for every project and landscape. Utility-scale solar projects can greatly disturb the land, or not. We tried to capture this by including rooftop solar metric & wind footprint

Land-use intensity of electricity production and tomorrow’s energy landscape The global energy system has a relatively small land footprint at present, comprising just 0.4% of ice-free land. This pales in comparison to agricultural land use– 30–38% of ice-free land–yet future ...

So, agree we shouldn't ignore the land used by extractive industries, but there is a metric to compare this apples-to-apples: land use intensity of energy (or electricity). We did a meta-analysis for electricity production if you are interested! journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Ugh, this is the worst. When we moved to Europe I thought we would take trains everywhere (and we do try to!), but for work trips it is often 2-3x the cost and takes 5-6x longer. The extra time is not so bad on vacation, but for a family of four that cost is tough to bear

The Role of Nuclear Energy in Decarbonization and Powering the AI Era | Climate Week As nations target to meet net-zero goals, nuclear energy is reemerging as an essential — and often controversial — part of the clean energy mix. At the same time, the rapid rise of artificial intellig...

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We'd heard anecdotally, both in rural Norway and Sweden, that folks are burning more wood in winter to supplement electric heating since 2022. But it's probably a small effect because the population is so concentrated in cities.

Do you have the same chart for Norway?

Wow! That trend is shocking, especially Finland. Is it also an issue with people using more wood for heating to offset high energy prices, or is this mostly an industrial harvesting issue?

😮 "Two-way fixed-effects (TWFE) DiD estimates
suggest a nuclear plant closure increases annual state-level per capita carbon emissions between 6% and 8%."

Forgoing Nuclear: Nuclear Power Plant Closures and Carbon Emissions in the United States This paper examines the effect of nuclear power plant decommissioning on electricity generation and carbon emissions in the United States. Using data on nuclear reactor closures in the United States ....

Unsurprising results, but very robust research methodology: Emissions rose when U.S. nuclear power closed. By Luke Petach in Southern Economic Journal. [Open Access] onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A good project developer could design a community benefits plan that accurately compensates the properties closest to the turbines.

I still think my original post was accurate. This study shows that over a larger area, property values increase (and municipal revenues rise). Small (and temporary) declines in property values closest to the turbines appear to be offset by growth in the broader community. That's not ignoring it

The paper states clearly that property values do decrease close to wind turbines, especially in the short term, but that they are trying to evaluate the broader cumulative effects. That's a separate and important question that many communities might care about.

You should read the paper!