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https://twitter.com/EPBResearch/status/1568269715470008322What these people fail to understand is that there IS a popular way to raise taxes: Tax very wealthy people a lot more and enforce the laws so wealthy people don't get away with avoiding taxes they should be paying.
https://twitter.com/fhabekuss/status/1567944107863199748Armstrong McKay, et al. 2022. "Exceeding 1.5 C global warming could trigger multiple climate tipping points." Science. vol. 377, no. 6611. September 9. pp. eabn7950. [science.org/doi/abs/10.112…]
https://twitter.com/HugoBille/status/1451106688153571330The key is that USE PHASE dominates in most cases, so your statement about "massive hardware emissions" doesn't track with reality, although in some use cases embedded emissions can be consequential.
https://twitter.com/s8mb/status/1395751837500903432Also, many people don't know that lead is still allowed in aviation gasoline, because the FAA thinks "no safe alternative is currently available". faa.gov/news/fact_shee…
https://twitter.com/nic__carter/status/1395745277051645959Our rebuttal: Masanet, Eric, Arman Shehabi, Nuoa Lei, Harald Vranken, Jonathan Koomey, and Jens Malmodin. 2019. "Implausible projections overestimate near-term Bitcoin CO2 emissions." Nature Climate Change. vol. 9, no. 9. 2019/09/01. pp. 653-654. [doi.org/10.1038/s41558…]
https://twitter.com/KetanJ0/status/1395258045165342723This is another example of a critically important constraint on the supply side (it's not just about reducing demand).
https://twitter.com/parkermolloy/status/1386450449423912968When you’re dealing with delusional people, rational arguments don’t work, and straight up mockery is the best option.
https://twitter.com/lymanstoneky/status/1385935757748154370Of course, they are one part of a more comprehensive strategy that involves getting to zero transmission, extensive testing and tracing, masking, and eventually vaccines. Travel bans themselves won't do the job, but as part of a strategy to get to zero transmission, they work.
https://twitter.com/dhofstetter_x/status/1385705462075625472Dana and I agree that we need to cut emissions as much and as fast as possible, starting now, but that's not the end of the story.
https://twitter.com/dana1981/status/1385730921911836674?s=20
https://twitter.com/JIMrichards1010/status/1239140710558969857?s=20
https://twitter.com/NoLore/status/1350670846570983425Remember, that for pandemics as well as for climate change, "Speed trumps perfection". Stop obsessiong about "optimality". There is nothing optimal about responding to a pandemic or to climate change, just move as fast as you can.
https://twitter.com/JIMrichards1010/status/1239140710558969857?s=20
https://twitter.com/jpanzer/status/1325148574846390272This thread puts forth a different view, one with which I wholeheartedly agree. It's the GOP and Trumpists who need to do the work and show us they want to live in society with us.
https://twitter.com/JuliusGoat/status/1322712853153984515?s=20
https://twitter.com/rachaelmbade/status/1324537482445230084I thought about this more overnight, then I saw this thread, which gets at an important point. To paraphrase something originally said about conservatism, centrism never fails, it is always failed.
https://twitter.com/shadowfuzz/status/1324685303488151553?s=20
https://twitter.com/iyad_elbaghdadi/status/1323955603690192897It's not enough to talk about how both sides feel about things, we need to analyze what motivates both sides' feelings.
https://twitter.com/DrSimEvans/status/1243126533272805377In our technical potential analysis for the EC5 (Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands, and the UK) back in 1995 (!) we found that about 40% of total wind potential for those countries combined was in the UK offshore wind/coastal resource.
https://twitter.com/ddayen/status/1313106132026621954We need an honest debate about the role of government in a modern society. Anyone who says that government needs to be "small enough to be drowned in a bathtub" must be excluded from that conversation. They are not good faith participants.