About 40% of shipping by tonnage today is moving fossil fuels around. If we move to renewables, this pretty much goes away.

Yeah, there have been a string of these recently. It’s an interesting approach to activism.

It’s unfortunately not possible to tell the difference between this kind of sarcasm and the outright serious denial that the fossil fuels industry pays to put in front of people.

This data

The problem is that idle time is something the rich have aplenty, but the poor don’t.

About two more years I think. I’m expecting there to be enough solar to decarbonize by 2050 if we also ramp up wind turbine manufacturing. The latter part is important because the different intermittency of the two renewables sharply reduces the amount of storage needed.

Mostly, because the manufacturing capacity is constrained still. If the factories currently being built actually go into operation, we’ll end up with enough solar to meet peoples’ needs (though not enough wind turbines)

It’s worse than that even — the regulator that would be able to punish them, the Georgia Public Service Commission, has had its elections canceled. This leaves Republicans who are bought out by the utility in charge.

For the Atlantic for being willing to run it in a format that confuses readers, the Public Utilities Commissions in the states where the Southern Company operates for letting the Southern Company do this kind of thing with ratepayer money, and the Southern Company itself for trying to mislead people.

For sure…but it’s being run as an ad, and people are absolutely awful at telling the difference between this kind of ad and editorial content, even when it’s plainly labeled.

I think that nitrogen is what they’re using now. It’s readily available, cheap, and fairly easily contained.

I’m aware of the LSD and Ketamine, weed wouldn’t surprise me too.

I’ll take electrical power from the heavens any day.

It’s almost like a group focused on climate action isn’t actively working on every other issue.

There are only tiny numbers of billionaires, and we need to get emissions to zero to stabilize temperatures, so we’re all going to need to pitch in, even if that means something like “change how we heat and cook” instead of “switch to sailboats instead of diesel mega-yachts and private jets”

The individual reporters aren’t disreputable at this point; it’s the owner and his interference that’s a problem.

I’ll note that I’ve provided a link to an archived copy above.

Security clearances are nominally the domain of the FBI, rather than the CIA. They tend to see themselves as a right-wing organization though.

That’s ok. Most of the cross-state activism in California right now is people going to AZ and NV to knock on doors for the Harris and Democratic senate candidates.

There has been a ton of modeling on how declining numbers of ratepayers cause methane gas prices to skyrocket. If you actually get rid of almost all the people buying it, the last few are left paying a fortune for what was once common infrastructure shared by many people.

The problem is that informed opinion thinks that Trump has something around a 50% chance of winning there. That’s a kind of risk that regular people can’t put serious money into.