Marcus Stewart

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Dear Europe 👇

"The evidence overwhelmingly shows the opposite, that Trump will always find a way to support Putin in the end, that his occasional critical tweets about Russia are window-dressing, that he despises European countries and would be happy to see Ukraine fail (and even cease to exist)."

Make no mistake: the House budget bill, as currently written, is effectively a full repeal of the Inflation Reduction Act clean energy measures. This renders all IRA tax credits as-good-as-dead. Goodbye nuclear industry. Goodbye US manufacturing investments. Hello higher energy prices.

Russia is now bombarding Odesa with ballistic missiles. Remember, European leadership pledged that if Russia did not agree to a 30-day unconditional ceasefire by yesterday, they would hit Russia with super new sanctions. Yet, here we are…

My post yesterday, yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/01/the-..., discussed how 3 of the top-20 deadliest heat waves in history occurred in 2024. The 9,000+ deaths during the summer heat wave in Europe ranked as 2024’s deadliest weather disaster and is the fifth-deadliest heat wave in world history.

Is @conormcgregor.bsky.social afraid of foreigners because he got completely destroyed by Khabib Nurmagomedov ?

And who, you might ask, is putting this pressure on the EU to backtrack on climate goals? Yep, it's ExxonMobil and friends.

Avoiding electing a British version of Donald Trump

Weird that Greenpeace are the recipient. What's that based on?

I suspect they'll just pay the fine anyway.

Hard to NOT see this is entirely incoherent at best, cynically hypocritical at worse.

Despite the nonsense we saw from Trump yesterday, please know that climate progress is continuing through other channels...

This is important to keep in mind, every day.

How is he going to increase tariffs AND kill inflation ?

That just won't work.

He just tests the popularity of ideas on the public before talking to advisors about repercussions. It's mostly just talk without any follow through.

Yeah, they're great cars. And three years ago Musk was a hero. I wouldn't regret that choice.

80+ years ago means there is nobody alive today working in VW that collaborated with Nazis and buying a VW brand today is not supporting Nazis or a Nazi CEO.

Buying a Tesla now looks incredibly like it is.

(I otherwise like what Tesla is doing and sympathetic to all current Tesla owners).

I think those VW owners might feel their brand was being tarnished if the CURRENT CEO was doing Nazi salutes.

Denial

Can he really cut this off without Congress ?

There's been plenty of decent reporting about Trump etc.

The big issue is that mainstream media no longer dominates the information people are getting.

It's mostly algorithms controlled by billionaires now.

Any way of finding out what the industry paid the Business Post for this piece ?

Looks like things were just as challenging for men going all the way back to the Iron Age.

Yeah I agree

You mean regulate media and `social' media?

For sure. Democracies can't survive without it.

Though would Congress and the Supreme Court have come behind that at this point?

He should have been agitating for it, but would that have been popular ?

What could/should he have done to prevent it ?

I suppose the only good argument is that nuclear does take much longer to build and cost overruns are more unpredictable.

Though both nuclear and offshore wind are much slower to develop than they should be.

It's very hard to have sympathy for anyone that hoards this amount of jewelry.

Probably an insurance scam anyway.

* I think we can. I'm just trying to help focus the conversation + direction

Since the industrial revolution:
Per capita emissions have grown from 3T to 7T per person.

Reflecting vastly improved living standards.

Whether the world can or can't live without fossil fuels is not the real question.

Can we demonstrate a low GHG society that people WANT to live in?

Butterfly Nebula. Two enormous, knotted lobes of pink, red, and white gas and dust extend out from a central point and diagonally to the top right and lower left. The lobes resemble the wings of a butterfly, and they glow against black space dotted with more distant stars and galaxies. image credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team

“we are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.”
- carl sagan

At risk of oversimplifying:

Does this research highlight the need to start looking at well manager landfills as part of the solution.

And incineration of waste as part of the problem ?

*Circular economy principles being first priority of course.