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Dr. Genevieve Guenther Profile picture
@DoctorVive
Jun 16, 2020 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Good morning! Here's David Victor talking about carbon capture and storage as if we knew it already worked, and praising oil and gas giants for investing in it, as if they were spending real money on climate mitigation.

#Yikes

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Yes, I realize he calls "Northern Lights" a "model," but then he says that it "IS a network of CCS systems," not that it "WOULD BE" such a network. Slippery!
Oh look, here he is in the next paragraph praising his funder BP for "building hydrogen networks."

How extensive are these "networks"? How much money is BP spending on them? He doesn't say. Image

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther Profile picture
Dec 17
I'm currently on vacation, but I must pop in to say: the DOE letter calling increased LNG exports “neither sustainable nor advisable" is a VERY, VERY BIG DEAL.

This is the first time a Dem administration has come out against expanding a fossil fuel.

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"The letter is expected to accompany a study of the economic, national security and climate effects of approving new natural gas export terminals to be issued within days by the DOE."

According to the letter, the study finds three things...

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First the study finds that, although it generates “wealth for the owners of export facilities” and jobs across the supply chain, exporting more LNG causes domestic wholesale methane gas prices to increase an estimated 30%.

So on the whole it's not good for Americans.

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther Profile picture
Nov 11
I am baffled by this opening claim in @TimothyDSnyder's New Yorker piece on Trump's fascism.

Trump's entire campaign was fueled by empathy for white men. It explicitly advanced the promise to improve their lives through his power as Leader ("I will fix it.")

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The US *has* been destroyed — economic inequality, lack of eduction or culture outside churches, crumbling infrastructure, the slow poison of social media in the body politic — has made town after town a decaying shadow of its former self.

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Yes the neoliberalism that catalyzed this decline was introduced by Reagan and best advanced by Republican policies, but, of course, the truth is not the point — especially because in this case it's a half truth. Clinton and Obama are both neoliberals.

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Sep 20
I am very proud that Ted Nordhaus, @mattyglesias, and right-wingers like Judy Curry are attacking my book. It means they feel threatened by my analysis of their rhetoric in favor of expanding fossil fuels. This is good!

I must say, however, that their attacks are spurious.

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@mattyglesias This week The Breakthrough Institute published a blog post written by some guy I blocked on Twitter for misogyny years ago, who claims that errors he found in my text prove my research is faulty.



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@mattyglesias This post did find two errors in my book. Thanks for that!

But its other claims are incorrect, perhaps because its author has no understanding of scholarly responsibility and striking problems with reading comprehension.

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther Profile picture
Aug 15
Last month I spoke to @350NYC about William Nordhaus and economics of decarbonization, using material from *The Language of Climate Politics*.

TL/DR: all too much discourse about the “cost” of climate policy is bullshit.

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A prime piece of fossil-fuel propaganda is that resolving the climate crisis will “cost” Americans too much.

But the truth is rather the opposite: NOT halting global heating will, within decades, cost Americans way more than creating a net zero economy.

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In fact, phasing out fossil fuels and creating a net zero, ecologically integrated economy will make 90% of people on this planet, including most Americans, way better off than they are now.

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Aug 15
Is #ClimateChange a winning electoral issue for @TheDemocrats?

Here's what @pewresearch data says.

69% of Americans favor the US working to become carbon neutral by 2050.

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67% of Republicans under 30 want the US to prioritize clean energy development.

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You may hear from pundits that Americans place a low priority on climate. But overall 71% of Americans say climate should be a Congressional priority.

59% of Democrats say it should be THE TOP PRIORITY.

@brianschatz @USRepKCastor @EdMarkey

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Jul 23
OK Twitter, here's the theory of change that underlies the new climate messages I offer in *The Language of Climate Politics*

Let me begin by saying: focus-groups show my messages increase support for phasing out fossil fuels by up to 10 pts among Dems AND REPUBLICANS who...

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...who are concerned and alarmed about the #ClimateCrisis.

(The rubric of the "concerned" and the "alarmed" comes from @YaleClimateComm's and @Mason4C's "Global Warming's Six Americas.")

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As of Fall 2023, the "concerned" and the "alarmed" compose a majority of Americans — not the climate choir, but, again, the majority of Americans.

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