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silence7, (edited )

Down-vote etiquette is well-neigh unenforceable. You can encourage people to do the right thing, but aside from catching brigading, you’re going to have a really hard time doing anything with it.

Anything encouraging people to use end-to-end encrypted communications needs to give examples, as many people really don’t know what that means.

silence7,

It is; things could be worse than they are. The problem is that both absolute and per-capita emissions are going up, to the point where China crossed over to be the largest emitter on a national-total basis, and we’re at the point where they need to be going down.

silence7,

The estimates from before passage looked like this:REPEAT project estimate of greenhouse gas emissions with and without the IRA. Shows a sharp cut in emissions as a result

And per this article, we’re likely doing better than the pre-passage estimates.

China by contrast has had increasing emissions over the past several years:

Graph showing China’s CO2 emissions by year

Those increases by China are used by opponents of climate action to argue that it’s not worth doing anything, when every country needs to get to the same emisisons: zero or less.

silence7,

Mind you, a lot of is getting spent on things we know work, such as wind, solar, storage, and electrification.

silence7,

The US is about 60/40 fossil vs non-fossil, with much better ratios in the places that the most EVs are being sold right now. This is also likely to greatly improve over the useful life of any new vehicle sold today.

On top of that, EVs are much more efficient at turning electricity into motion than fossil cars are in turning gasoline into motion, so you end up with a reduction in emissions even in fossil-fuel-heavy parts of the US.

silence7,

That’s Markey for you.

silence7,

There’s a chunk of the Democrats, notably ‘progressives,’ who are willing to do just that. Markey is one.

silence7,

We do, just at a lower rate than flying on a commercial flight.

silence7,

We deal with the history we have, not the history we wish we had.

silence7,

He’s taken a string of actions, including negotiating the Inflation Reduction Act and enacting power plant and automotive emissions regulations designed to shift the US off fossil fuels.

This stuff isn’t perfect; there are steps I’d like to see that don’t have the Congressional support it would take to actually do them.

silence7,

He can declare, but I don’t see how any action he might take under such a declaration survives challenge under the current Supreme Court.

silence7,

He’s doing things which are almost entirely demand-side and incentive-oriented. Getting to where we need to be means including extraction cuts and penalties for burning, but we don’t have the votes for those in Congress yet.

silence7,

Yeah, there are some examples of pollution combining with warmer water to produce some nasty odors. If you’re experiencing a changed odor, it might be something that’s actually addressable, and doing this on a shared basis with somebody might be something that brings pleasure back.

silence7,

The question that matters is this: Does it matter for a fraction of them, so that it can split voters off and change who holds power?

If the answer is yes, then it’s a big deal.

silence7,

There’s an archive link included with the original post.

silence7,

I recommend reading before commenting.

silence7,

It’s more about the interaction of warmer temperatures, wildfire, and subsequent debris flow into water supply:

The periods of heavy rain that followed the fires assisted vegetation recovery but also triggered soil erosion and landslips, the report says. There was an “increased likelihood of compounding effects of extreme rainfall following significant fire seasons due to climate change”, the report concluded.

“Climate change is predicted to drive more frequent and extreme natural disasters in coming years.

“This will threaten the resilience or capacity of the catchment to maintain essential ecosystem services such as the provision of adequate, good quality source water.”

silence7,

Yep. Warmer temps are a possible driver of conditions which make fire possible, and the introduced grasses provide the fuel.

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