silence7

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The key figure is this one, which shows that new fossil gas exports would replace a lot of overseas renewables, but very little coal, while also generating a lot of new fossil fuel use.

 

The paper is here, and the lead author has a BlueSky thread about it

 

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/16255447

The very long timetable on this basically tells us that most of the work needed to decarbonize electric generation will be in the form of wind and solar, rather than something exotic like this.

 

The very long timetable on this basically tells us that most of the work needed to decarbonize electric generation will be in the form of wind and solar, rather than something exotic like this.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, inland areas transition to a thermokarst landscape, while places next to the ocean can just disappear entirely.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 weeks ago

It depends intensely on what you mean by "thermal runaway" — we can absolutely create a world which will support a much smaller population; we can't really create a world where we boil off the oceans like Venus.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

The author literally wrote one of the commonly-used intro texts about climate.

They're well aware of feedbacks, and that's part of the standard understanding that scientists have.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 0 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 weeks ago

The court decision is indeed one to limit the use of seawalls to protect against property damage. There are limited cases where they'll still be used, but it's not going to be too widespread in California as a result.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 16 points 2 weeks ago

And he intimidates everybody around him to hide it:

Reached for comment, the author of the letter said, “If you print that, I will deny I wrote it.” When he was reminded that it had been sent from the same personal e-mail account that he still uses, he said, “I don’t care. I’ll just say it never happened.”

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The problem us that private seawalls have the effect of destroying public beaches, which is why California restricts them.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 8 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah. Been violated a handful of times (eg: during LA riots) but there are almost no court cases about it

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Busy surrendering their third amendment rights of course.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

With language, that's usually something you need to do to communicate.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 14 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

You may not like the term, but it's what everybody else is using.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 weeks ago

That's normal. On reddit, only about 2 or 3 percent click through to the article. Given the user interface similarity, I'd expect the same here

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