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Too Much Heat, Past and Present The ultimate consequences of global warming are difficult to truly understand by the public, policymakers, and by pretty much everybody. In their hearts,

"Too Much Heat, Past and Present" by Robert Hunziker for Pressenza

www.pressenza.com/2024/01/too-...

I still don't think people realise how quickly renewable energy is expanding around the world

🇪🇺New renewables built over the past 5yrs were enough to power the entire EU
🇺🇸🇨🇦New renewables expected in the next 5yrs wld be enough to power the US & Canada

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Now that Bitcoin ETFs have been approved, let's recap the colossal waste of resources in BTC mining over the past year.

During 2023, Bitcoin's proof-of-useless-work mechanism consumed almost as much electricity as the entire traditional financial sector combined.

Cop28 is a farce rigged to fail, but there are other ways we can try to save the planet | George Mon... Inaction and self-interest are built into climate summits. Instead, we need a voting system that can’t be subverted by fossil fuel producers, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The COP process is broken - broken *by design*. Can it be fixed, or should it be bypassed altogether? I explore some options.
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The Man In Charge uses words as a planet-wrecking weapon COP28 president and fossil CEO Sultan Al Jaber gets weirdly offended at a bunch of reasonable criticisms. Here's why.

Ok - look - I had to do a line-by-line breakdown of ADNOC CEO and COP28 President Sultan Al Jaber's remarks to Mary Robinson, because they are *so bad*

Ultimately they showcase something simple: fossil fuel companies use words as weapons to protect their bloody profit and even bloodier expansionism

Science denial is still an issue ahead of COP28 It is 33 years now since the IPCC in its first report in 1990 concluded that it is “certain” that greenhouse gas emissions from human activities “will enhance the greenhouse effect, resulting on...

Unfortunately, climate science denial is still an issue ahead of #COP28. My commentary at Realclimate.

www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

So Norway is exporting fuel equivalent to 300 tons of CO2 per inhabitant and year.

And the government is still like ‘utvikle, ikke avvikle’….

1. This is a thread about waste plant and animal fats, which for 20 years have been promoted as the magic potions that would solve all our transport problems. It doesn’t matter how often this story gets debunked: unlike these commodities, it appears to be endlessly recyclable.

Why can't our tech billionaires learn anything new? On Marc Andreessen's "techno-optimist manifesto"

New, on substack: “why can’t our tech billionaires learn anything new?”

I rip into Marc Andreessen’s Techno-Optimist Manifesto.

…It’s a lot like the Frasier reboot, actually.

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Solar+food in ethanol fields could fully power the United States Converting the nation’s 40 million acres of ethanol corn farms into solar-plus-food facilities would generate 1.5 times our nation’s electricity needs, while also powering a 100% electrified passe...

📢📢📢 "Converting the nation’s 40 million acres of ethanol corn farms into solar-plus-food facilities would generate 1.5 times our nation’s electricity needs, while also powering a 100% electrified passenger vehicle fleet."

H/T Bill Mckibben ✅

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