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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.
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…
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.
The most popular chart in 2012?
The vintage @ChuckGrassley Debt and Deficit Dragon, of course.
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…
nytimes.com/2021/09/15/art…
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:
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."
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/
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.
