Chris Bataille

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When you get back reviewer comments on a paper as long as the paper

Forgot to tag @iddri.bsky.social @ddpinitiative.bsky.social 👆

So is Canada a #petrostate, doomed to be a long run rustbelt, or an #electrostate rising into the future? Maybe it's a choice between two states of mind, vision, planning & governance. Can we go our own "Norway"? See our essay, p73 of the global DDP report. ddpinitiative.org/wp-content/u...

I love how weather forecasting has gotten surreally accurate, which strikes me as an almost godlike power, just at the moment when avoidable climate damages, which would have been mostly fairly mundane engineering with some business and social changes, are starting to bite.

Respect

We're all going to have to pay careful attention to what climate policies CA, OR, WA, CO, NY, NJ, MA, etc. can keep on the books (and hopefully grow 🤞).

It’s Time for Americans to Start Talking About “Soft Secession” Blue states are finally learning what red states have known all along: you don’t need federal permission to govern.

"Twenty-three Democratic attorneys general now gather on near-daily Zoom calls at 8 AM Pacific, which means the East Coast officials are already on their third coffee. They divide responsibilities and share templates for lawsuits they’ve been drafting since last spring."

Industrial heat pumps are critical for electrifying industry—but decades of chasing waste heat have kept them stuck in bespoke, non-scalable projects.

It’s time to rethink the path forward. 🧵👇

High temperature record for Ottawa broken on Sunday A temperature of 28.5 C was recorded at the Ottawa Airport at 1 p.m., breaking the previous record of 27.2 C, set in 1941. The temperature reached a peak of 29.7 C at 3 p.m.

www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...

Picture isn’t coming up, but there’s moderate wildfire smoke and it’s 29°C in Ottawa on October 5th. At the doorway of +1.5°C …

WTH? It’s October …

Indian Railways to achieve net zero targets in 2025 itself - 5 years ahead of 2030 goal - Times of India India Business News: Indian Railways is set to achieve net-zero targets by year-end, surpassing its 2030 goal through extensive electrification. Aiming for 95% electric tr

Not nearly enough is made of the incredibly impressive feat Indian Railways has made to electrify almost 100% of its 135,000km of track, while also growing renewable sourcing. Huge:

timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/ind...

Given grid and subgrid storage is available at <$100/kWh, allowing us to gradually haul system wide marginal wide cost down to the per cycle level, the whole over building thing is a bit aged at this point. The question is what can we get permitted and built.

Amongst things that outraged me this week, the US SecDef ranting on about warfighting. Sun Tzu best articulated that wars are best won by not fighting them in the 1st place, only as a last resort. From a Franco-Canadian who didn’t have to fight at Vimy, Juno, Verdun, Sedan, etc++

Late fall micro rose

Are you old, obsessed with politics, or both if you get this reference? Points if you know what “THIS” refers to. 🙃

Dental hygiene is highly underrated from a public health standpoint. A lot of the weird “unexplained” heart viruses etc are caused from poor dental health.

Also, I still think it’s possible to hold this nightmare under +2°C.

I.e., there are controllable and uncontrollable versions of overshoots. And the under is more like 1.9-2.3°C.

Oddly, I would have seen this as bimodal; we either top out at +1.8-2.5°C & then a slower drift down using all forms of removal, or it just keeps climbing to 3+ish, we’re impoverished, & doesn’t come back down in a human time frame, until the bio & geosphere can reabsorb the CO2 in the atmosphere 🧐

And this is a "down", "cooler" year ... 😬👇

It will be fun watching property prices when no one can get a mortgage because they cannot insure it.

First Nations on B.C.'s North Coast won't support Alberta's pipeline proposal 'now or ever,' says chief | CBC News The president of an organization representing First Nations along British Columbia's North Coast says it won't support a new bitumen pipeline proposal from Alberta's premier "now or ever."

"As rights & title holders, we must inform Premier Smith once again that there is no support from Coastal First Nations for a pipeline & oil tankers project in our coastal waters" Marilyn Slett, president, Coastal First Nations Great Bear Initiative. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #cdnpoli #abpoli #c5

Two Delta planes collide on taxiway of New York's LaGuardia Airport There were no serious injuries after two passenger jets had a collision on the taxiway of LaGuardia Airport, officials said.

Flying in 2025, because we've broken our public services (yes, air traffic controllers are public services) with neglect because of our obsession with lower taxes instead of things working www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

Reasonable cost housing would lead to reasonable cost wages which would lead to higher firm profitability and more investment. But hey, who’s stating the obvious.

A lot of what ails us might be fixed by 5 million units of low income rental federally owned, net zero energy and low GHG materials housing.

You talk to almost anyone under 18, under 25, and they tend to have a very practical, sardonic, I’m going one happy anyway “might be end times, might not” vibe. Sort of like the generations that lived under serious nuclear war threat

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

New article co-authored by a colleague.

Never change, Portland.