This is cumulative global solar PV capacity in megawatts from 2000 to 2019. Image
This is total global capacity of wind turbine power capacity from 2008 to 2018. Image
This is global emissions from 1750 to 2019, fossil fuel and cement production only. Land use emissions not included. Image
When do the reductions start?
"It's not working yet, do more of it faster" is based on bullshit.
This system has been tried.
It failed.
Now what?
(Never mind, I'm pretty sure I know. Sigh.)

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24 Jul
Meat.
Here's the deal about telling people to stop eating meat.
It is an economic fact that we do not "raise grain to feed to meat."
Cattle do not prosper on a diet of grain. It's not even good for them.
We raise cattle to consume grain, to create a market for grain. No reverse.
I'm not saying, eat meat. I'm saying, when we didn't eat enough meat, they had to start feeding corn to cars.
After feeding 10% processed corn to cars, we found that we still were not providing sufficient market for corn.
So we raised it to 15%.
Motorcyclists screamed NOOOOOO!!!
3. It is a production fact that at the time a bushel of corn moves from the combine to the grain truck at the edge of the field, that corn contains more fossil fuel BTUs of energy than are present as corn BTUs.
Then we haul it, heat it, distill it - add more fossil energy -
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24 Jul
It's easy to fall into thinking what you're against. Easy for me. Judging by what I hear, easy for a lot of people.
Even what we're for is often being against some specific destruction. Whales. Sharks. Pipelines. Mines. Desecration.
It's easier to explain, too.
2. "See, they shouldn't bulldoze this mountain pass and extract lithium from it because the sage grouse needs it."
That is correct.
But if not this mountain pass, which one?
If not this forest, this stream, this prairie, which one?
3. The logic of our system of life and living, to its very foundation, says we have to bulldoze this mountain pass, because we have to have electric cars to fight climate change, and we need the lithium.
We need the wood.
We need the oil. It's way the hell up there and we need it
Read 17 tweets
23 Jul
Spending high energy tonight. Loading up the lap steel (homemade) and the amplifier (not) and driving at somewhere close to a mile a minute at peak times, for about an hour and a half to three quarters, and play this guitar with two friends, and drink two beers, and do it back.
I have several high energy activities that would be utterly impossible without high energy high speed transportation and other machines.
Utterly dependent on fossil fuels and a huge built environment of concrete and steel.
I sometimes take long hot showers.
3. We've got this personal responsibility for climate activities backwards. Don't take long hot showers.
There's easily half a million long hot showers in one electric car. We've got to develop different systems, not live like paupers in this one while Jeff Bezos fucks the sky.
Read 15 tweets
22 Jul
I don't believe there is one agreed-upon definition of "an economy", but the one I like to base my reasoning on is "The means by which a society obtains and distributes the resources necessary for living to its members."
2. I have read that "economy" comes from the Greek for "housekeeping." Makes sense. Each household has to run itself, get food, water, shelter, clothing. These are the absolutes, our needs as biological creatures.
Our current economy is, by that definition, pretty poor.
3. Some people have enough resources to blast themselves, encased in a giant phallus, to the edge of the gravity well.
Some don't.
All in one country.
Piss poor economy, I'd say.
Read 34 tweets
22 Jul
This tweet fills me with rage and hatred.
And I hate to hate.
100% of all the policies Senator Whitehouse advocates for require increasing emissions now, next year, the year after, with some vague promise that in later years we will see a reduction.
This tweet is a baldfaced lie.
The author of this article want the right thing: reductions now. Not years in the future. @SenWhitehouse uses this article to push policies for immediate emissions increases.
Prove me wrong.
Prove you can build nationwide infrastructure while seeing reductions now. Or even soon. Image
You've been building this crap for decades. People proudly tell me Germany is running in renewables. I hear it every week.
Emissions are up DRASTICALLY. GLOBALLY.
There is ABSOLUTELY NO VOICE IN AMERICAN GOVERNMENT who wants to decrease emissions this year, or next, or the next.
Read 5 tweets
21 Jul
One of the major reasons it's against my rules to debate against internet talking points on energy and emissions is because no. I'm not selling a product. I'm not here to debate. I am offering a viewpoint based entirely within accepted science about climate.
2. I understand with a clarity you probably can't imagine that virtually all the world disagrees with me.
They all disagreed with Galileo, too.
If you would like to know a different view than the dominant one, based on concern that it doesn't appear to be working, I invite you.
3. If I am right, it is possible for humankind to get out of the mess we're in bent but not broken.
I don't think it's hopeless.
I just think we're going at it wrong.
If you disagree, that's fine. Please do not post links to internet talking points about the technological marvel
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