I just created a quick map depicting which portions of the United States are now (as of today) or will imminently be (by early June) without 24/7 local National Weather Service coverage (per Washington Post reporting). #CAwx #CAfire #CAwater #ORwx #AKwx #WYwx #KSwx
Superb video here about "forever chemicals" and how they got into the bodies of everyone in the world. Watch this if you need a thumbnail history. Congratulations to the
@veritasium.bsky.social team of Derek Muller, Gregor Čavlović and others. Impressive work about a frightening problem.
Measles used to kill 400 to 500 children a year in the United States. Under the current reign of idiocy, our national goal seems to be to get back to those good old days. More here on case and fatality rates through time: ourworldindata.org/grapher/meas...
Trump's claimed legal authority for the new tariffs, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, is highly dubious. What he is doing is clearly beyond the scope of Congress's intent in passing that law. Message to Democrats in Congress: SUE HIM and seek an injunction to vacate.
New from 404 Media: hundreds of subreddits, including some of the most popular, are considering banning all links/content/screenshots from X/Twitter. r/NFL, r/hockey, r/baseball, r/nba, r/formula1, r/ComicBookMovies, r/MadeMeSmile, so many more. Some already have. www.404media.co/hundreds-of-...
Man, I hadn't even thought about power pylons falling over. But now that you mention this, it seems inevitable in the climate of the future. And downed power lines start fires.
Congestion charging update: Inrix numbers start to show benefits of the charge. Speeds on some routes into Manhattan have nearly doubled. And this is *after* the governor foolishly cut the charge by 40%. Congestion charging is a policy that works, folks! (on.ft.com/4hiK1rV)
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Help to develop the open-source #MESSAGEix modeling framework to better understand options for a rapid, just & feasible transition! 🔌💡
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2024 #Climate Data Are In. We Need To Be Winning Faster.
By our @soniaaggarwal.bsky.social
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On The Climate Brink: Stop emissions, stop warming: A climate reality check
This is a crucial point because it determines how much warming is already "locked in" and effectively unavoidable.
The answer is very little warming is locked in.
Also, this is our 100th post!
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1 does not solve 2.
1. Electrification w/renewables is a process that expunges waste from the system, thus lowering primary energy consumption.
2. Unless we start retiring cars, powerplants well before they've lost their economic value, the FF underlayer will further extend its lifespan. 🔌💡
The potential new energy secretary in the US is falling for the fallacy that renewables have to replace primary energy.
Here's what's actually happening: When we electrify, we become more efficient. The reduction in fossil energy input is far greater than the added electricity demand.
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Enhanced geothermal isn't so dark of a horse anymore.
Great writeup on the state and promise of the technology from Nature (www.nature.com/articles/d41...), including references to our recent paper on the long-run value of flexible geothermal power in Nature Energy www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Me every time a new person is announced on that man’s team.
Okay folks, we are officially done with Twitter.
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Looking forward to learning how appointing an accused child-sex-trafficker as AG and a suspected Russian asset as DNI will lower the price of eggs
I'm sure this Cabinet of inexperienced grifters who excel solely at advancing their own careers will produce an administration that runs like a well-oiled machine.
A man with correct priorities!
Did the land sink collapse in 2023? No
The land sink was low in 2023, as expected with an El Niño.
The land sink will partially recover in 2024 as the El Niño subsides, but with high uncertainty.
Should we worry about the climate impact on the land sink? Yes
essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es...
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#EnergySky folks, tune in to hear us chat about what Trump 2.0 means for US-China relations and global energy competition and trade.
All year, we've seen predictions that fossil emissions will peak in 2024. Count me skeptical: I'll believe it when I see it in the rear-view mirror. If indeed the peak is at hand, we can attach a number to it as of today, thanks to the Global Carbon Project. globalcarbonbudget.org/fossil-fuel-...
Gavin Schmidt (@climateofgavin.bsky.social) and I have a guest essay in today's New York Times about the exceptional and not fully explained recent global temperatures, and climate science can become more "operational" to address these questions: www.nytimes.com/2024...
