Good journalism isn't free and free journalism tends to be trash.

Doing the same. I’m using it as an excuse to be more efficient.

Sure it does. It's called even more catastrophic. Calling the displacement of tens of millions of people as "seriously impacting" just gives people wiggle room to downplay the crisis as not as bad as it's being made to seem.

Sounds like quantum of solace

No. Trying to excuse kidnapping a baby is really too much. There's nothing about such a crisis that justifies that in any way. All it is is parasites taking advantage of a horrible situation.

It is catastrophic. But that leaves no room for the description of worse outcomes.

Apparently corporations and governments will "embrace green" if they can "make green" from it.

The problem still remains with Capitalism only understanding things in monetary terms.

How the fuck does displacing tens of millions of people not sound catastrophic to you?

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True but bp had the biggest and most dangerous

Amazingly it's more efficient to generate electricity with a gas turbine and use an electric heat pump than to use it directly at 95% efficiency. Gas turbines are usually 60% efficient since they don't use steam turbines, they use essentially a turbojet.

But with the new generation capacity being a large portion of renewables and grid scale energy storage projects such as moss landing and others will help stabilize the capacity, it's really a short term problem. Meanwhile the electric based appliances you have will only get more efficient as the grid gets more efficient and the gas ones will stay the same.

Already done 2 years ago

https://www.twincities.com/2021/03/02/mn-plowy-mcplowface-plows-through-the-competition-to-win-snow-plow-naming-contest/

The economy is a function of the government. Specifically, it is a function of the United States government. Building renewables could have always been profitable because we could have shaped regulations to where that was the only option. Jobs would have still been created, value would have still been created, and the economy would have moved just as efficiently.

The only difference is there would be different winners and losers. Our government has always picked the same people who put us into this mess to be the winners.

True, everyone remembers the AT&T Brazilian Oil Spill of '93

They can have a lot of profits when they get nationalized and tried at the Hague.

So tired of politicians pretending that we can rely on the same people that put us in this mess to get us out of it.

Oh no, using only 20% of the gas you'd use otherwise! Literally the worst!

Here's another one that made me laugh...

Oh Snow You Didn't

😂

That's the sound of a company that definitely shouldn't have its assets seized and its executives tried and executed wink wink

What're you talking about? The current trajectory isn't acceptable, we failed to tackle climate change, and the outcomes *will* be catastrophic. Displacement (and inevitably, death) of tens of millions *is* catastrophic.

The fact that the situation feasibly could be worse doesn't make the situation better.

You wanna be clear in your communication? How about this ranking:

1. Catastrophic climate change.
2. Societal collapse.
3. Threat of extinction.

We're at 1 at the moment. Downplaying the threat of climate change (which, in my opinion, you are doing right now) is incredibly dangerous. In a lot of peoples mind if it's not catastrophic then there's no rush (look at any climate conference). Not pressing the grave importance of immediate climate action is how we end up with even worse outcomes.

BP the guys that invented the carbon footprint to defect away from them just having the wost oil spill in history and ruined most of the coastline in the gulf of Mexico. They have never carried about the environment only thier bottom line

Unlucky if your electric power is produced with gas.

The natural gas shortage in Europe kinda got me on a motivated fast path to delete my gas service in the PNW. First step was a hybrid electric water heater replacing my gas one, utility offered a $500 rebate on that. Next step is induction electric range. Third step is heat pump HVAC.

As much as natural gas is the new hot thing for energy and transportation, I figure with the war it may be shorter lived or stalled a bit for something better due to prices. Hopefully we can regulate production in the US as well and stop fracking so much.

Thank you!

Yo sit the fuck down Steiner

You are 80 years too late