Eric Sauder

@katharinehayhoe.com Thanks for the wonderfully energizing presentation last night at Dickinson - we are grateful for you!

How the World moves. 🌎

Breaking News!

A new daily record!

Our new article in Anabaptist Witness “Reckoning with Mennonite History and Theology through Public Action,” coauthored with @tnafziger.bsky.social and Sarah Augustine www.anabaptistwitness.org/journal_entr...

A graph titled "Cost of Transport" showing the relationship between body weight (in kilograms) and energy consumption for distance traveled (calories per gram per kilometer) for various animals and machines. It highlights that a person on a bicycle ranks first in efficiency.

A person on a bicycle is by far the most energy-efficient among animals and machines per distance traveled relative to body weight. The bicycle is magic.

www.jstor.org/stable/24923...

Rough week. So let me fill your @bsky.app feeds with one of my favorite data visualizations... Enjoy! 🙂

Seasonal migration patterns of birds varying with air temperature using community science observations (eBird).

Animation created by: sos.noaa.gov/catalog/data...

Fossil fuel air pollution responsible for 1 in 5 deaths worldwide New research finds that deaths from fossil fuel emissions are higher than previously thought—more than 8 million people per year, worldwide.

Worldwide, air pollution from burning fossil fuels is responsible for about 1 in 5 deaths

It really doesn't have to be this way
www.hsph.harvard.edu/c-change/new...

The energy transition will be much cheaper than you think Most analysts overestimate energy demand and underestimate technological advances

The energy transition will be much cheaper than you think - The Economist
www.economist.com/interactive/...

To hit any of these, we’d have to actually start decreasing emissions…

Letter: The Inflation Reduction Act is a climate policy that delivers for all of us Letter: The Inflation Reduction Act is a climate policy that delivers for all of us

“On the hottest day of the year, our air conditioner failed. With the IRA and other incentives, we received a 25% cost reduction — about $6,300. Our air conditioning bill is now halved. My persistent cough, likely aggravated by burning gas in the home, has improved.” www.sltrib.com/opinion/lett...

Line graph time series showing daily Arctic sea ice extent in the Canadian Arctic for 2024 compared to each year from 1979 to 2023. There is a large seasonal cycle on this graph and a long-term decreasing trend for days during the melt season from May to November. 2024 is the lowest on record for this time of year.

Associated with the anomalous warmth, this year observed the latest freeze-up in the satellite-era record across the Canadian #Arctic Archipelago.

Data from nsidc.org/data/seaice_...

The Sun. Taken at night. Not looking up at sky but down through 8000 miles of the Earth. Not with light but neutrinos

Time for the @bsky.app community to see one of my favorite visualizations of climate change...

"Shifting Distribution of Land Temperature Anomalies" by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5211/ ⚒️🧪

A famous climate graphic is running out of red Scientists added a new shade to a graphical representation of global temperature change to keep up with our warming world.

There is just no good news right now. This is also very sad. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Mid November…

Heat pumps used to struggle in the cold. Not anymore. Some cold climate heat pumps can be more than 100 percent efficient even in subzero temperatures.

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...

Cold climate heat pumps, baby!

If you learn anything today, it should be this:

We're burning more fossil fuels and releasing more fossil fuel CO₂ than ever. Despite what people had hoped, anthropogenic CO₂ emissions have not peaked.

To stay below +1.5°C of global warming, we're supposed to cut emissions by 50% by 2030. 🥲

Does anyone have experience with on-bill-financing programs with utility companies?

A figure of oil production for the top 10 oil-producing nations: United States, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Canada, Iran, Iraq, China, Brazil, United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait, with the US being the largest, overtaking Russian and Saudi Arabia in production in 2017.

In case you didn't think the US was a petrostate, here's a time series of oil production of the top 10 oil-producing nations.

And local for me is Pennsylvania, USA

Thanks for sharing - this is really interesting! By local, I meant projects in your community that you’ve gotten to see under the hood. Really curious to learn more about projects like this that pay on savings. Scaling will be limited until occupants don’t carry the risk for energy improvements.

All is now complete!

Saw this post in a search for on-bill-financing. Are you familiar with any local applications?

It’s so refreshing to be over here with so many climate people!

@waiterich.bsky.social My team at www.teamaginc.com provides support for farmers to benchmark emissions and improve soil health. We’ve partnered with several corporates to better understand their supply chain emissions and help their farmers implement practices. Happy to chat & collaborate!

Hi @leahstokes.bsky.social, I really appreciate your work! My team @ www.regenall.org is focused on building replicable models for catalyzing climate action at the intersection of rural and urban communities. Exciting bipartisan collaborations in progress!

Really appreciate your books, @jeffgoodell.bsky.social welcome over here!

When Electrification has Power Beyond Its Climate Benefits Jamal Lewis and Aloja Airewele are part of a group focused on electrification. They are leading conversations at the Times’s Climate Forward Changemaker Lunch.

Jamal Lewis, with @rewiringamerica.bsky.social
“I want everyone, literally everyone, to have access to (the clean electrification) transition,” he said. www.nytimes.com/2024/09/25/c...

Focused on how you actually get climate stuff done in rural communities/small cities with or without local government leadership www.regenall.org

I’ve seen a few examples of mandatory energy ratings for units. I like this because it gives the tenants more information, and an incentive for landlords. Our city council in Lancaster, Pa seems receptive, but I’d love to learn from other places that have implemented.