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Robert Walker BSc, fact checker for scared people Profile picture
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Apr 12, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Why NFT art is okay. Adding transactions makes no difference to energy use as mining coins happens with or without transactions, also Etherium is in process of upgrade to Eth2, completed by some time in 2022, and after that will have negligible energy use. medium.com/superrare/no-c…
I.e. you use Etherium blockchain, but miners mine Etherium coins with or without fine art transactions, so no increase in mining work. After Etherium "proof of stake" upgrade to Eth2 by 2022, mining has negligible energy use blog.ethereum.org/2014/01/15/sla… Image
This is about the process of upgrade to the more sustainable Etherium 2 with only a tiny fraction of the energy use of Bitcoin. It uses "proof of stake" rather than "proof of work". I don't understand the details but they have it all worked out. ethereum.org/en/eth2/
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Calculations like this are flawed IMHO github.com/kylemcdonald/c… because the number of transactions makes no difference to the day's CO2 emissions. They ARE indirectly supporting the coins. But it's not a bad one to support given that it will have almost zero power use by 2022.

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Jul 8
If worried about project 2025:

BLOG: Far right Republican Project 2025 is mostly an illegal fantasy - most of it can’t be done at all - “Schedule F” would face legal challenges and likely be struck down
CLICK HERE TO READ:

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2/ This is impossible. I 'll do a new post when I get time. Most things require new laws and they can't get a far right majority in either house. Schedule F is the main executive decision option. If he tries again it is likely shot down as illegal. Meanwhile short thread.
3/ for LGBT things remember that the vast majority in both houses supported the respect for marriage act. So it is not possible for Congress to pass laws that remove the right for marriage for gay people never mind harsher restrictions.

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Jun 15
1/n Yes we ARE headed for 1.7°C if countries keep to announced pledges
- most make realistic pledges and achieve or overachieve
- 77% of IPCC authors CAN be wrong if it is the remaining 23% who study how countries translate pledges into action

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TEXT ON GRAPHIC As technology improves we expect it to be EASIER to achieve these pledges and improve on them. APS [Announced Pledges Scenario] Most of these pledges are - economically feasible - from countries that historically equal or exceed pledges. The 1.7°C scenario assumes countries achieve their announced pledges. Why do so many say 1.7°C is impossible? It can't be, by definition. Highlighted text: "In the Announced Pledges Scenario (APS), the temperature rise in 2100 is 1.7 °C" This graphic is from the latest IEA repor...
2/ About why climate scientists often are so pessimistic about action on climate change.
- hardly any study the economic models
- IPCC / AR6 had a cut off date just before the COP26 net zero pledges
- so couldn't evaluate the feasibility of India / China's net zero plans. Text on graphic: IPCC / AR6 cut-off date was before the net zero pledges of India and China. More important figure : 23% of climate scientists expect a rise of 2 C or less Less than 10% of IPCC scientists study the economics of climate change and Integrated Assessment Models use older simpler economic methods
3/ The big IPBES report in 2019 was the only recent major study with a large element of social scientists and it was the most optimistic, saying we can achieve this transformative change, not just scientifically - that it is economically and socially feasible. Transformative change maximizes good quality of life with GROWTH, material, non material and economic - IPCC and IPBES Increasingly we are following this path makes sense [Scroll down page to see second copy of this graphic for the rest of the text] Graphic from page 33 of the appendix to chapter 4 of the IPBES report in 2019 https://ipbes.net/sites/default/files/2021-01/GA_chapter_4_supplementary_materials.pdf
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@GerogeBush6 @mikestabile 1/ This is an inaccurate summary. It is about exceptions to the law not overturning it. There are many exceptions already itif.org/publications/2…
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@GerogeBush6 @mikestabile This is the basic argument for the defendant

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Oct 3, 2022
1/4 Many people are misreading what Putin said in his annexation speech. He did NOT say Hiroshima and Nagasaki create a precedent for the world to use nukes today

- that would be a very radical
- that would reverse all Russian nuclear policy for decades.
2/4 It is very clear in context that Putin said
- the Allied carpet bombing in WW2 in Dresden, Hamburg and Cologne
- set a precedent for the use of the nuclear bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

They clip the video just before the second paragraph which makes that clear.
3/4 I go into it in my blog post using the official English translation of Putins' speech as published by the Kremlin.

I look at two other ways to intepret those two sentences, neither makes sense in the context of the paragraph that follows.
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Oct 1, 2022
Putin speech misleadingly clipped
- said nukes against civilians are BAD
- did NOT say bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are a precedent for Russia to follow
- said US / UK used carpet bombing in Germany as a precedent
- for nuclear bombs in Japan
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I don't speak Russian. But this is based on the official Kremlin translation into English. That section of the speech is always clipped just before the next bit which makes it clear he is talking about USA using carpet bombing in Germany as a precedent for nuclear bombs in Japan.
There is one other reading, I've now set them out with headings as the natural reading and two alternative forced and unnatural readings in the context of the rest of the speech.
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Reminder you can't use a nuke to win wars. Image
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Russia's tactical nukes likely can be dialed down very small like the US ones. If a 1 kiloton tactical nuke was detonated at one end of an airport runway you'd not even get sick at the other end if the small radioactive cloud blew another way or you got inside within 15 minutes Image
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