futatorius

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futatorius , to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. in ‘What if there just is no solution?’ How we are all in denial about the climate crisis

I'm an engineer, so I don't agree with the despair, but also believe that what we'll have is a number of partial and not entirely satisfactory solutions that mitigate the problem but don't fully solve it. And we'll adapt because we have to. But it's foolish to underestimate the intertia of the present way of doing things. It's going to be a long slog, and the legacy indstries are going to fight and foot-drag until they're driven out of business.

futatorius , to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. in It’s time for megalithic action!- Just Stop Oil decorate Stonehenge

Cheap stunts, when what's needed is direct action.

futatorius , to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. in It’s time for megalithic action!- Just Stop Oil decorate Stonehenge

I'm increasingly convinced that Just Stop Oil is paid by the oil companies to discredit pro-environment protest.

futatorius , to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. in The University of Chicago’s new climate initiative: brave research program or potentially dangerous foray into solar geoengineering?

Stopping emissions at source and improving energy efficiency should be the top priorities. The laws of thermodynamics and atmospheric physics are strongly unfavorable towards after-the-fact cleanup attempts. Every large-scale engineering project has side-effects, and one of such massive proportions is likely to have proportionately massive side-effects.

Geoengineering has also been used by polluters as an excuse to continue polluting. This isn't a problem with the proposed solutions, but more with the political use to which those solutions are put.

futatorius , to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. in Too much of a good thing? Spain's green energy can exceed demand, country is looking at storing capacity or buyers to solve electricity oversupply

Spain is also super hot.

Parts of Spain are hot. Coastal areas are mostly mild. Galicia's climate is nearly British. The hottest bits (such as the Extremadura) are thinly populated. But rather than standing up energy-intensive infrastructure, it'd make more sense to invest in storage, or to export the energy to other countries that don't get so much sun.

or in worst case run a few bitcoin servers

There is no worst case that bad. We should be putting a forceful halt to squandering of energy on dodgy get-rich-quick schemes.

futatorius , to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. in Largest US oil trade group to sue to block Biden's EV push

What's the basis of the lawsuit, that they're entitled to continue earning profit by killing us all?

futatorius , to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. in Shrink the Economy, Save the World? Economic growth has been ecologically costly — and so a movement in favor of ‘degrowth’ is growing.

A word of caution: there is not a constant relationship between carbon emissions (or energy use, for that matter) and GDP. Some economies are far more efficient than others. Some of the most efficient countries are among the wealthiest. So at very least, it is not inevitable that improvements in energy efficiency will mean reductions in GDP, and it certainly doesn't make sense to assume that a reduction in growth will lead to a corresponding reduction in energy use or greenhouse gas emissions.

futatorius , to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. in How Governor Hochul Decided to Kill Congestion Pricing in New York

Meanwhile, in London, congestion pricing and the expansion of the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) were a big issue in the mayoral election, with most pundits predicting that it would lead to incumbent mayor Sadiq Khan losing his job. But instead, he won by a wider margin than in the previous election. And, rather comically, it wasn't Sadiq's policy in the first place, it had been put in place by Boris Johnson when he was mayor.

Evidence in London so far is that the current ULEZ has saved lives and reduced hospitalisations due to respiratory problems, and that congestion charging has not had adverse economic impacts, while improving quality of life. But there are still plenty of people who want to play the victim, and I'm sure that in NYC, they're louder.

https://www.london.gov.uk/programmes-strategies/environment-and-climate-change/pollution-and-air-quality/ultra-low-emission-zone-ulez-london/ulez-facts

futatorius , to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. in Trump vows to ‘drill, baby, drill’ despite rally attendees wilting in extreme heat | Supporters hospitalized following rallies in Las Vegas and Phoenix, where temperatures have broken records

Wow, this would have been too implausible to be an Onion story.

futatorius , to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. in Carbon Capture Will Extend Oil Production by 84 Years, Industry Study Finds

There's no reason to extend use of oil by 84 years. There are strong reasons to terminate its use as soon as we can.

futatorius , to US Authoritarianism in Conservatism is Brain Damage

So while fiscal and social conservatism are the public rallying cries, they aren’t actually much in line with fascism.

Social conservatism is, at best, fascist-adjacent. Singling out social minorities for harassment and legal persecution is very closely akin to fascist scapegoating.

futatorius , to US Authoritarianism in Conservatism is Brain Damage

And we absolutely worked in a bipartisan manner towards balancing the budget until Reagan.

Balancing the budget is profoundly foolish fiscal policy. Long evidence has shown that countercyclical fiscal policy (running deficits during recessions; paying them down during times of growth) is far more effective. It is imbecilic to cut government spending during recessions when the need for government services is greatest, and it exacerbates economic downturns by removing liquidity from the economy at a time when it's already short.

futatorius , to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. in “I hope the younger generations can forgive us”: State oil company pushed $100 billion of deals in UAE’s year as COP28 host

Ecocide should get you a life sentence.

futatorius , to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. in “I hope the younger generations can forgive us”: State oil company pushed $100 billion of deals in UAE’s year as COP28 host

I just hope it doesn't reach the point where certain Western nations are forced to invade oil-producing countries to permanently disable oil production there.

futatorius , to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. in Could spraying sea salt into the clouds cool the planet? An experiment in Alameda, Calif. highlights the controversy surrounding research on altering the environment to cool the planet.

Well, they've pulled the plug on it. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/05/us/alameda-cloud-brightening-climate-change.html

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