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A good solution is to take screenshots so it only counts as one visit instead of everybody viewing the post driving traffic to Twitter.

Or better yet, Mastodon / federated microblogging platforms.

I'm all for using methane as a biproduct of sewage or composting, however "natural gas" used to heat homes, generate electricity, or power cars is a misnomer. Natural gas from oil companies for these purposes are just them selling us the methane biproduct of fracking. Solar > natural gas power plants and heat pumps > natural gas heaters.

Unfortunately, most methane used today is contributing to global warming and increasing the profitability of fracking and oil.

It's akin to how dairy companies get whey as a biproduct when they skim milk and instead of throwing it out, they started selling it for protein powder and as a food additive to increase profits.

The Linux memes today are 🔥

(But not as much as Windoze machines with CrowdStrike are today)

There's more people complaining about those protesting the climate than doing literally anything about it. Be the change you want to see and don't poo poo others who go about the same goal in a different way.

Say it with me: we need a diversity of tactics.

The new head of search Prabhakar Raghavan used to work at Yahoo search which he drove into the ground.

You can read more about it here.

Our prisons are designed for revenge and punishment not just to those going to prison, but to have a terrifying affect on others.

So ironically, the use of 5 years prison time is the real terrorism, in the literal sense of trying to make people terrified of protesting and of putting someone in a cage for 5 years.

I certainly agree that we've gotten much better at safely producing and storing. However, with climate change worsening, we continue to have unprecedented natural disasters in unexpected areas which concerns me the most.

We need some catchy name for a "buy from local businesses" day that we can propose on prime day.

Elon is also supporting right wing authoritarians who want to dismantle climate protections and promote coal, oil, and gas.

This was a great, succinct article. Here are a few key points that I noticed:

The important result here is that the efficiency of your air conditioner decreases as ∆T increases — e.g., as the outside temperature goes up.

the work required to keep your house at a fixed temperature Tc increases with the square of the temperature difference between inside and outside temperature, ΔT².

Let’s use the same numbers from the previous example: you want to keep your house at 75F. If climate change has increased the outside temperature from 96F to 100F, the energy your air conditioner consumes increases by (100-75)2/(96-75)2 = 252/212 — this is an increase in energy consumption of 42%!

Averaged over an entire day, the increase will be less than this because ∆T is smaller for much of the day (e.g., at night) But the result is robust: climate change is driving exponentially increasing energy demand for cooling.

People with financial means, who work in air-conditioned offices and live in climate-controlled homes, can handle rising temperatures by simply paying for more electricity.

However, a significant portion of the global population lives the hot life. These people live in homes without air conditioning, work outdoors or in warehouses or kitchens with no climate control.

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In my opinion, there are greater influences than voter turnout on climate policy. The corporate lobbying, aggressive PR, and disinformation has influenced the state more than any vote. There have historically been no candidates to even vote for that cared about global warming.

And the oil and gas corporations themselves have influenced voters in the same way. Embedding oil into masculinity, lack of global warming discussion in the monopolized media outlets, etc.... Attempts to keep information and awareness from the average voter and make us doubt global warming and even defend oil companies.

IMO, the American state's impulse to protect capital and monopoly is the primary reason the climate response has been so poor.