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an ecomodernist provocation 'If you really believed 2 or 3 degrees of warming to be civilization endangering, and that developing economy emissions … threaten the survival of American society, then bombing emerging economies back to the stone age would be a rational response'

Althought this essay is about US climate policies, it is an excellent read for the rest of us, too. Climatic extremism on both the Left and the Right.

This massive blackout will almost certainly trigger the usual philippics on all sides of the energy debate. I am not remotely expert enough in grid operations to weigh in with an opinion other than to say that the more frequently you run your grid this heavily on variable

Ted Nordhaus Council on Foreign Relations I must admit that I found this section rather odd: “The fact is that foreign emissions are endangering the American homeland. As greenhouse gas emissions exacerbate hurricanes and wildfires that level whole U.S. communities spanning North Carolina down to southern California,

Don't let Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) fool you. In 2010, per capita GDP for SSA was $1900, about 1/5 the global average. Even accepting her claim, that means climate change over 2 decades made very poor Africans a little bit poorer, during a period when SSA saw very little economic growth at

Ted Nordhaus Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) For some context regarding the precipitation claim, rows (a) and (e) are the observed historical trends in annual mean precipitation, and rows (c) and (g) are the model-estimated impacts of elevated greenhouse gas concentrations on those trends. SSA is roughly half moistening and

General rule of thumb when one sees environmentalish quotes attributed to iconic Native Americans is that they are made up or otherwise fictionalized.

My favorite. This famous saying, commonly attributed to Chief Seattle, was actually originally coined in somewhat different form in the early 1970s by Wendall Berry.

So there’s a weird effect where mainstream outlets are finally running birth/population decline stories — but after having run decades of *overpopulation* warnings, and then just quietly stopping without ever explaining why that was wrong. So of course the audience is perplexed!

Michael Grunwald I too hung on to the belief that it would somehow work out and be an asset for the state even if it took too long and cost too much long past the sell date. Much focus on permitting and other obstacles, which are all true. But the die was cast virtually from the start, when

“The parties most guilty of jumping to conclusions are the Spanish political leaders who have driven the expansion of renewable energy in the region.” via ⁦Seaver Wang⁩ and me ⁦Breakthrough⁩: breakthroughjournal.org/p/its-okay-to-…

When it comes to climate catastrophism, I prefer a disingenuous, virtue-signalling poser over an honest believer anytime. Because if you REALLY believe the planet will become uninhabitable, you can justify totally immoral things, like sabotaging development in poor countries.

Yes it is actually possible to explore lessons from the Spain/Portugal outages before an initiating cause is exactly known--by simply weighing a range of possibilities! Anyone attacking others or accusing them of bad faith for trying to do so is being far too closed-minded.🧵

It’s always too early to draw conclusions and never too early to exonerate renewables.

I got Jay into climate and clean energy when he was a client of EMC Research, where I worked at the time, over 20 years ago. He was a second term relatively unknown Congressman and introduced the first Apollo legislation. He road the issue to national prominence over two

A graph that changed how I think about climate variability was this one from Deser et al. The variety in 50-year (!) winter temperature trends across 30 ensemble members of a climate model with identical greenhouse gas forcing (the 30 only differ due to initial condition