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historical oil demand vs secnarios

On the second fossil fuel crisis of this decade (and likely to be worse than the last, fair to say), a few small thoughts

First: global oil demand would be so much lower without climate delay, fossil corruption, oversized SUVs, western overconsumption. Everyone who pushed these holds responsibility

In wealthy nations, I don't believe this is about access to information or education or even intellectual capacity. In my experience it's all about the belief that they have what they call "parental rights". Which just translates to autonomy to harm their own.

He doesn't care. Not in the slightest.

They spent a lot of time telling me how it was like magic. They watched their fellow attendee's get taken out one after another & there were sure they were going to as well, but they didn't. Now they think it's a super power. 🤣👍

Friend of mine who I've spent a fair bit of time talking/teaching about masking reported back to me this weekend that they were at a conference last week & 1/2 the attendee's got sick & some had to go home & they didn't. Flew there, did the conference & flew home healthy. Simple.

Birds are vanishing from tropical forests. Is another ‘silent spring’ coming? As mysterious bird declines crop up in the Amazon and beyond, scientists suspect climate change may be to blame

www.science.org/content/arti...

The idea that imperfect victims aren’t worth defending is much bigger than me, and is something I had to speak out about.

What kind of world does it create when only some of us are deemed worthy of institutional support and safety?

WELKER: Why is Trump helping Russia in this moment?

WALTZ:I wouldn't characterize it that way

WELKER: How else would you describe easing oil sanctions?

WALTZ: It's common sense to allow oil sitting on ships to go to India

WELKER: Russia will be getting that money as it wages its war in Ukraine

The Desire for Terror And the defense of democracy

A purpose of the war on Iran might well be to provoke a terrorist attack inside the United States. This would provide Donald Trump with a pretext to try to cancel or “federalize” the coming Congressional elections.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-desire...

Meanwhile, Spain's massive investment in renewables is paying dividends now: with prices for Spanish industry and consumers low and stable compared with other European economies.

www.ft.com/content/ac77...

I've said this a number of times, but it's worth saying again. If you don't like what is going on in the world one of the best things you can do right now is do absolutely everything you can to stop using fossil fuels.

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

It doesn’t matter whether the rate of global warming is increasing. It’ll never cease to amaze me that people don’t care that it’s happening at all. It should be the most alarming thing ever.

Yes, yes it is, but even if the felon is mad, he still has dictatorial powers over the most powerful military in the world.

Babies with COVID-19 develop more serious disease than those with RSV, US data reveal

Children under 2 hospitalized for COVID-19 are more likely to die or become seriously ill than babies with RSV, according to a new study.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...

Carney says he supports US invading Iran, Cuba, and possibly Canada "with some regret" "It's a good thing that Trump is the most peaceful president in history who ends all wars, right?"

Carney says he supports US invading Iran, Cuba, and possibly Canada "with some regret"

I lack the words to capture it, but ... it's just endlessly remarkable to me that so many people in our society have chosen trans kis -- TRANS KIDS, the smallest, least significant, most vulnerable demographic slice you could possibly pick -- as a repository for all their fears & insecurities.

Pace of global warming has nearly doubled since 2015, study says - Carbon Brief An acceleration in human-caused global warming could see the Paris Agreement’s 1.5C limit breached before...

NEW – Pace of global warming has nearly doubled since 2015, study says

✍️ @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org

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“It makes no sense to claim that there’s a war on cars and motorists, when if anything, there’s been a war on walking. Over the last 70 years, human settlements have become less dense through the deliberate subsiding of driving, including land-use laws that promote sprawl…” #UrbanTruth

It's pretty wild that the Carney Conservative press releases sound just about exactly the same as the UCP separatist ones do.

Plugging in your car only warms the oil, it does nothing for the battery. Parasitic draw from the computer systems of modern cars is pretty high. A trickle charger is the way to go for cars that aren't driven much.

manufacturing. Serfdom in service of a 1%. The wealthy have waged a war on the middle class & for the most part, they've won.

For many, that hasn't really worked out & now they just have the debt. Now even those that have managed to scrape a living out are being told that many of those jobs are going to be done by AI, so they need to go back to a manufacturing industry that doesn't exist. So no white collar or

The arc of the last decades has been pretty wild. First everyone was told that because all the manufacturing was moving to Asia, they needed to get higher education to be part of a white collar work force. People did. They indebted themselves to unsustainable levels to do it.

"And through this absence we see the emerging reality: the American state is allowed to decay and falter, while oligarchs use the bits that remain to pursue private interests and private fortunes."

If you're not driving your car much, you need to have a trickle charger on it. With newer cars 2-4 weeks of no driving is enough to drain the battery.

Two white nationalists I exposed in a recent article showed up to try to intimidate me in person last night.

This is a press freedom issue.

Here’s what happened:

a picture of a cartoon pig with the words th-th-th-thats all folks below it Alt: Porky the pig with the words th-th-th-thats all folks below it

I think it was wile e coyote that famously said, that's all folks.

I think it was wile e coyote that famously said, that's all folks.

Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran.

No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles.

Worth a watch.

(🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)