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I don't want to pick at Mike, but neither do I want to lose the tweet in case I annoy him.
He says
#ActOnClimate. And he says #Renewables.
2. I just read on Twitter that 2022 was on track to be the highest level of emissions in history.
It was also, I'd be willing to bet, the #1 year for #renewables to be built, shipped, and installed.
This is not a coincidence.
Joe Biden has been bragging about jobs.
Fossil power
3. The actions the developed world is taking every day increase our demand for fossil energy every day. Directly, at far more that a 1:1 ratio. Probably more like an 6:1 ratio, but that's a guess.
But it takes way more than one gallon of diesel fuel to get a gallon of diesel fuel
4. to the highway construction site or the copper mine.
Shit, fossil fuel companies are advertising renewables like their fortunes depended on it.
Here's BP, the folks last seen blowing up the Deepwater Horizon... bp.com/en_us/united-s…
5. And here's Total, from France, once seen around the Midwest as Fina stations.
These guys know which side their bread is buttered on.
The project to build enough renewables to transition will never end. Infinite income for fossil fuel companies. totalenergies.com/group/energy-e…
6. In order to do what everyone agrees is our only choice, our only hope, to transition to carbon free energy, we have to build an infinite number of wind turbines and solar panels, fast enough to reach the total output of all coal and gas generating plants - currently ~63%.
7. The world's #1 producer of solar panels cannot continue to ramp up their production of them without building new coal-fired electric power plants.
This is a matter of public record. Everyone knows this.
8. Virtually 100% of climate activists ignore the relationship between China's production of solar panels and China's consumption of coal.
We all like to bitch about China, while praising solar panel deserts.
And - so far all I've talked about is CO2 and global heating. And...
9. That's just the tip of the iceberg.
Does anyone remember all the shit Environmentalists® were worried about *before* climate change?
Yep.
It's all still in trouble.
Most of it worse than ever.
If, tomorrow morning at 8:00 AM GMT, all the energy sources in the world were net 0
10. It wouldn't help much.
Concrete would still be up there where China and the US were with fossil energy.
I'm too tired to explain. Here's Wikipedia on the topic.
Highways. Shopping malls. Skyscrapers. Concrete. Cement. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_…
11. As always, I refer readers to @ClimateBen 's pinned tweet.
Of the ten items listed, greenhouse gases are one item.
What we're doing is empirically, obviously, not working.
The reason plastic is going to the oceans is because we make it.
12. The reason we have tire dust in our blood, brains, bowels, and creeks, is because we drive fast.
Period.
13. The Biden Administration is the worst single thing to have ever happened to the climate.
I mean this literally, and sincerely.
The Infrastructure Framework - it's an ecological disaster. And - For The Climate® we're going to bulldoze and pave enough ground for $10 billion
14. Worth of new factories. In those factories we are going to build things so big that we have to build special new trucks just to haul them around.
Seriously - does anyone at COP27 know how steel is made?
Or copper?
15. I'm going to take you back to where I started. Read the response thread. I find it horrifying.
16. To restate the plan as accepted by all mainstream climate activists:
Today approximately 63% of all the world's electricity is generated by heat engines burning fossil fuels. About 10% comes from nuclear heat powering heat engines, about 10% comes from dams across big rivers,
17. In the neighborhood of 4% comes from wind and solar.
The plan is to build 16 times as much wind and solar as we have now, plus whatever extra is required to keep up with the ongoing increases in fossil powered generation capacity, and then to "transition"
18. The roughly 2/3 of all US energy which is not currently passed through a stage as electricity -
All the electricity we have now is way less than 1/3 of all the power we suck up annually -
I can't explain. It's all a glorious fiction.
Y'all better hope the deniers are right.
19. Because if we do what you're all demanding we're going down.
In flames.
PS. Here's the thread about emissions. The punch line is, they're going up.

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I attempt to produce a thread about the real way to address climate and ecosystem collapse every day if I have the free time.
I think the odds of them doing any good starts with a zero, then a decimal point, then a whole bunch more zeroes, then a 1.
Like this:
0.00000001% chance.
2. That is still greater than zero.
I believe that it is physically possible for humanity to slow, stop, turn away from our current road, and move on forward.
I believe that to do this we have to learn to live, globally, physically and economically, on the cyclic energy of life.
3. The way the ecosystem works, in the overview, is that the surface of Earth is exposed to a given amount of solar energy per year, distributed in partly known ways because of the shape of a (rough) globe, and the wobble of this spinning top we live on.
Life came to exist there.
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Nov 13
COP27, speeches, World Leaders™, pledges, talk...
The claim that we can build a global power infrastructure which will replace the fossil fuel infrastructure is empirically false.
Discussions of "paybacks" and "energy return over energy invested" are irrelevant.
2. Yes, an individual wind turbine can be built. An individual mass murder of solar panels can be built.
The system cannot be built.
The current attempt to build it requires an endless supply of new fossil fuel electric plants.
They're methane powered, mostly. Transition fuel.
3. Here's my question:
How many, total, wind turbines have to be built to replace the world's supply of fossil fueled electricity?
Currently the goal line is moving away. We're building new fossil plants worldwide.
So how many?
How many tons of steel?
How many tons of glass?
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Nov 12
This Insta post marked a new beginning in my life.
This man - @ snakemandan on Insta - is involved with a group of young people who will work cooperatively with us, grazing their sheep on my grass, which I am currently mowing with gasoline.
instagram.com/p/Ckb2heDrB57/…
2. Two of them came out last week, and we walked around on both farms.
My objectives for this farm, these farms, are long term agro-forestry permaculture based on a savanna ecosystem, which is what was here when the white folks brought their plows.
These people have a 50 year
3. Plan.
I am 75, and was only looking at 25 years, but I think it will all fit together.
What I write about, a low energy, low speed, sufficient and satisfying life to combat ecosystem collapse - this isn't theoretical to me.
I am doing this today in real life.
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Nov 10
What are we supposed to be, as humans?
How are we supposed to interface with our surroundings?
We evolved here. I stand on that as a fact. Humans evolved, somewhere in Africa a long time ago, in a mild savanna ecosystem.
Earth made us. Of itself. There was nothing else to use.
We lived in a few ways, interacted with our surroundings, obtained food, water, shelter, garments, in a few ways. We appear to have invented textiles, weaving, spinning, sewing, a long, long time ago, independently.
So, anyway - we started out in Africa. Glaciers came and went.
3. Glaciers enforced limits on our range, but they also locked up seawater and made it a lot easier to walk around the world. And we did. There are mysteries. We found, and killed off / bred into submission Neanderthal people. Where did they evolve? I don't know. It's a complex
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Nov 9
We and they do not share a reality.
Hear me out.
We do not ingest the same information stream.
We - people I interact with on purpose - view a certain reality, where Joe Biden is an elderly professional pol who finally got the Big One and is doing a professional job at it.
2. I have been told, with a straight face, that Joe Biden owns the company that makes the electric cars and that's why he's pushing for them. This person honestly believe these things.
I have seen three or four tweets these past few days where True Believer MAGAs were talking.
3. The purpose of tweeting them was, best I could figure, to belittle and denigrate the people spewing this hot air, but -
Y'all, their belief structure is largely internally consistent. They have numerous sources.
Do you personally know Rachel Maddow? I don't. Mostly I believe
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Nov 9
I'm not what anyone would call an optimist, but what I see in the world doesn't fill me with hope.
To me it appears obvious that the two sides in American life are products, teams manufactured to enable the oligarchy to solidify their control over the world. Foxes vs MSNibishes.
2. Long time readers know that I haven't had a TV since I was in my teens. 55 years at least.
I haven't seen movies either.
Almost all the referents which all Americans share, I don't know. I am ignorant.
"You know, like that commercial where..."
I've never seen it.
Never.
3. All the GIFs that came out of all the TV shows and movies?
I never saw any of them. I use this one a lot, to show respect and gratitude to my friends, but I don't know where it comes from. No context.
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