silence7

silence7, 10 months ago

See the link to an Archived copy above

silence7, 9 months ago

The problem is that it’s not equally hot everywhere and people’s baselines change, so you can get a surprising number of people to go along with this

silence7, 9 months ago

There’s a link to an Archived copy above

silence7, 10 months ago

France taxes automobiles in a way that substantially discourages the largest and most polluting ones. Corresponding taxes in the UK are much lower.

silence7, 10 months ago

That’s the earliest possible date for a particular current to stop according to one paper. The paper gives a fairly wide range, out to 2095. And a lot of the rest of the literature puts the date later.

This isn’t the same as “oceans collapse,” whatever that means.

silence7, 10 months ago

That’s really challenging, as most house districts have huge majorities of voters favoring one party or the other, and only 1/3 of Senate seats are up for election in any given cycle. This makes it incredibly difficult to do a mass ouster like that. I’d look at the close house districts and close senate races to get a sense of where victory is possible.

silence7, 10 months ago

We’re talking about unlaid eggs here because the fossil fuels industry wants people to think that some future removal will somehow make things ok. This paper makes it clear that even if their dreams are realized, it doesn’t put things back the way they were.

silence7, 10 months ago

We’re not helpless though. We each have a tiny bit of influence, and put our thumbs of the scale of what human decisions are.

silence7, 10 months ago

Amazingly, we already have social institutions to enable groups of millions to billions to change the rules of society. They’re called governments. Get control over one (ideally through an electoral process in countries where that’s available) and you can change policy.