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Y'all, today is a big day!

IT'S THE 9TH ANNIVERSARY OF FLOORCHARTS.

~9 YEARS~ of collecting, cataloguing, sharing, rambling, watching and *everything* else related to this crazy thing I decided to start one night.

EVERYONE JOIN ME FOR A THREAD. Full.of.charts.
First: This all started in 2012 because of @nielslesniewski and @elisefoley wondering - as Senator Durbin chatted about energy drinks with a giant 5 Hour Energy Drink (seen below) - why there wasn't an archive of these things.

And then: rollcall.com/2012/11/16/you…
I worked for the wonderful world of C-SPAN at the time, so always had it on at home, and was staring at Twitter...and well, decided this could be a thing. So I popped up a @tumblr.

The most popular chart in 2012?

The vintage @ChuckGrassley Debt and Deficit Dragon, of course.
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This is fantastic. As #HotFERCSummer taught us, using humor (such as my terrible dad jokes) to get more folks talking about the #ClimateCrisis can make a real difference. Comedians, cable news hosts, & yes - Members of Congress - should do much more of it.
nytimes.com/2021/09/15/art…
That's why I gave a speech inspired by @theestallion declaring this a #HotFERCSummer:
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The IPCC news this morning should surprise no one. I am scared, and angry. But I refuse to give up. You can't give up either. We're all in this together.

But first, we've got to be honest about the facts, and clear-eyed about how and why have failed thus far. Thread:
1/ In my adult lifetime, we have gone from global political consensuses to address planet-level risks (the Montreal protocol / ozone depletion) to politicization and obfuscation of climate change to hoping the next election will change things to "oops it's too late."
2/ There is only one uncertainty. And it's on us. washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…
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Okay, everyone, we’ve been crunching the BID numbers to see what’s in this deal and how it’ll impact clean energy and climate. Warning, this is a long 🧵 … 1/
This isn’t #HotFERCSummer (h/t @RepCasten) but the TL;DR verdict - this is the down payment for the US to go big, like really big, on clean energy, climate, and jobs. 2/
Let's get to the details! 3/
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Watch FERC. Today is the last official day for my friend @FERChatterjee. Which means that President Biden has the chance to appoint a new director to arguably the most important agency in the government when it comes to near-term CO2 reduction. Gonna be a #HotFERCSummer
1/ If we are going to electrify our transportation fleet, we need a lot of new transmission (several hundred billion $ worth, according to @JesseJenkins) and >1,000 GW of new generation.
2/ Those investments will lower our cost of energy and drop CO2 emissions. But our electric regulatory structure has never been fully market-based. Federal $ (e.g., infrastructure) can close some, but not all of that gap.
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