What sensationalism, they say this every year! If this were actually true, that would imply that there's some sort of warming on a global scale and that can't be because of abortions, trans rights, and feeding children over the summer. GO OIL!!!
“It’s very likely that in 20, 30 years time, we will look back at the climate of the early 2020s as a period when [the temperature] was still manageable, when it was cold, in a sense,” Buontempo said.
This right here scares me more than anything else going on right now.
Can we just stop Blue and Grey from receiving subsidies? Like, if Shell thinks they can get it to work they can do it, but they can do so at their own expense. Focus the money towards projects that are definitely helping, and let the private market figure out a way to prove the probably greenwashing actually meets zero emissions.
Well yes, but it’s the sort of thing that could be spun as a compromise with the Republicans in that you are rolling back a ‘green’ energy subsidy, presumably in an effort to get something else passed that’s more effective.
The rich countries, were the elder are actually responsible can built proper dykes and so forth to deal with it or they can just move. It is going to be the poor elderly who will suffer and most of them really did nothing wrong.
The Tories know they are going to loose the next election anyway. Obviously they are not going to make it a crime, they rather cash in any built good connections with the fossil fuel industry, as their policy has pissed of most of the other industries really badly already. Since Labour is going to do some unpopular climate related policy, this gives the Tories a strong ally to help them out and finance a massive campaign againt Labour.
That’s crazy! Was just up at Superior in September and it felt surreally warm for that lake (like 60-65F, compared to the icy 45-50F it usually is even in the summer). I wonder how long before the temperatures at the lakebed begin to turn up too; normally the cold depth keeps decomposition away, but if it were to start to heat up down there, then that could all change drastically.
I'll start. Not specifically an EV problem so much as manufacturer and distributor problem, but I would appreciate if when I buy a new electric vehicle, I don't have to pay a subscription service to use features like seat warmers, or essentially pay for a new car if the battery protector cap is slightly bigger than it is supposed to, and be told I'll be raped in a parking lot if I ask a third party repair shop to fix it, or lose all warranty if I fix it myself.
Yes and it was widely known at the time that they were specifically being targeted while most manufacturers were using defeat devices because they were outcompeting American auto makers.
If you’re adding the context that basically says “it’s all bogus”, why not adjust the headline accordingly? This makes it seem like Germany actually did something to protect the climate.
Yeah, we wrecked the economy by trapping it in dead end technologies and killing off innovations for decades under conservative government. Degrowth like a champ!
MIT's estimate of about $73/MWh for renewable+transmission is low. It appropriately estimates amortization costs, but purchasing from a transmission operator will always come with a markup. Not much (utilities don't usually behave like corporations), but enough to be significant.
MIT's price for renewable+storage at $135/MWh seems high, too. Lazard calculates LCOE for wind+storage at $42-114/MWh and for solar+storage at $46-102/MWh.
I'm still a big fan of HV transmission, as it enables renewable generation to take advantage of cheap land and/or terrain advantages (high wind speed in the Midwest, concentrated solar in the South, geothermal in the West). But I think we'll still see a lot of local utilities just get batteries and call it a day.
Most of us are not scientists or have a good handle on the latest climate research. We have to trust in what scientists tell us that climate change is real and is something we need to worry about. In that sense, acceptance of science relies on people's beliefs.
This kind of research is just trying to measure the nature of people's climate opinions, which people tend to think of in terms of their beliefs.
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