Democrats released their platformIf I pare away the self-congratulatory rhetoric about all the things they say Biden has done, what do Democrats actually propose to do next about climate change ( Read more... )

Look, we have to stop growing our population and production exponentially, or we're going to boil off the oceans a couple centuries from now ( Read more... )

I finally have all the 2023 statistics I need to update my Global Green Communism formula. Sustainable per capita global GDP was $2,414/year during 2023. This would be a 97% reduction from 2023 per capita GDP in the US ( Read more... )

just walking outside was super hot, ugh, and won't really improve until the weekend

instead of feeling transition anxiety with the return of the work week, I'm feeling depressed -- don't want to do anything at all -- I guess that part of the grief is catching up with me now that no other humans are here

Currently, the effect of waste heat on the planet's average temperature is only 0.02°F, compared to 2°F for global warming from emissions. It's higher in cities, more like 4°F on average, but cities are only a small portion of the earth's surface area ( Read more... )

It would be great if we humans used our advances in labor productivity and energy efficiency to actually reduce our global carbon footprint. For example, over the past 20 years, globally we've reduced carbon emissions per unit of agriculture by 29%. That sounds helpful ( Read more... )

I don't obsess about climate change news daily, so I'm not sure when this hit the press, but 2023 had the largest annual increase in CO2 levels yet measured, going back to 1959 ( Read more... )

"Speaker Johnson has expressed an interest in linking Ukraine aid to a measure aimed at forcing the Biden administration to reverse its moratorium on liquid natural gas exports"

"We estimate that US greenhouse gas emissions were down 1.9% year-on-year in 2023."

How?

"A relatively mild winter and declining generation from coal power plants drove down emissions in the power and buildings sectors."Emissions rose in other US sectors, such as transportation (up 1.6%) and industry (up 1.0 ( Read more... )

The 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference or Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC, more commonly known as COP28, was the 28th United Nations Climate Change conference, held from 30 November until 12 December 2023 at Expo City, Dubai.

I'm trying to make sense of the 21-page conference agreement, and it is just a bunch of laywerly- ( Read more... )