I am, at the moment, a two-dimensional rendering of a featureless white ovoid with a satin finish, otherwise in a blind panic about climate disruption.
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Steve Bloom retweeted
I am not honoring the butcher of Gaza, a man who in my lifetime was more than happy to stand on the bones of mass-incarcerated Americans he considered subhuman just like Palestinians. no rent control proposal is going to bring those people back
Steve Bloom retweeted
One notable facet of Hidalgo’s push to pedestrianize Parisian streets is how unremarkable the spaces are. No huge capital project, redesign, mural, or fanfare. Just a metal swing gate with some No signs and an icon of kids, and you 👏 are 👏 good.
Steve Bloom retweeted
The village of Ruidoso in south-central New Mexico faced its 6th Flash Flood Emergency in about a month due to heavy rainfall. youtu.be/tSZvzET7zgY?si=4iBc…
Steve Bloom retweeted
While the ICJ ruling does constrain Israel in someways it's pushing things in the wrong direction. The only answer to apartheid is democracy, one person one vote from the river to the sea. A twin state solution is a failed 75 year old fantasy.
Steve Bloom retweeted
Reminder: there is no such thing as a solar ash spill. #solar m.startribune.com/utility-co…
Steve Bloom retweeted
#Climate Hell has come to Dubai with temperatures reaching 109.4°F (43°C).
However with extreme humidity it “feels like” a scorching 62°C (143.6 Fahrenheit)
Without the air conditioning they would be dropping like flies
esquireme.com/brief/dubai-he…
Steve Bloom retweeted
Warming of 2°C will drive an estimated 189 million additional people into hunger.
We are already at 1.6 C
wfpusa.org/articles/14-facts…
Steve Bloom retweeted
The mind-blowing thing we get WRONG about energy:
Fossil fuels supply 80% of our energy. People point to this number to say it's impossible to switch to renewables.
But their argument overlooks how much energy we waste & how we could do it better.
youtube.com/watch?v=EVJkq4iu…
Steve Bloom retweeted
This interview with @JustStop_Oil founder @RogerHallamCS21 is well worth a listen.
Every single word he said is correct: climate + ecological breakdown is THE defining event of our lives, and indeed human history.
It's our duty not only to act, but to act *effectively*.
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Steve Bloom retweeted
As with lavishing resources on China for next to nothing, Putin will drain Russia to the last drop of oil & blood to stay in power one more hour. Russia has become a gulag, a gas station with nukes, a fast ally of every dictator and terror state. Putin's fall is a necessity.
Steve Bloom retweeted
Anyway you slice it, nuclear growth is trivial, even in China.
Time to put an end to the false premise new nuclear will do anything to help climate or energy security. It costs 5-8x new wind+solar; has 5 security risks, 12-22 y from plan to operation & 9-37x the CO2e as wind.
China installing 6.52 GW of wind+solar EACH week (339 GW 2024)
teapawt.net/mzjacobson/status/1813…
Even if 26 GW new nuc by 2030, that's only 0.09 GW/week
so W+S:nuc ratio=72.4:1
In fact, China grew only
1.1 GW nuclear in '22
1.2 in '23
so real ratio > 280:1
eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail…
Steve Bloom retweeted
Sea ice is reflecting less solar energy back to space due to #climatechange
From 2016–2023, the planetary cooling effect of #Arctic and #Antarctic sea ice was 20% and 12% less than in 1980s
This is causing 🌍 to absorb +0.3 W m−2 extra of solar power for each deg of warming
ALT Change in (a) Arctic and (b) Antarctic sea ice radiative effect between the periods 1980–1988 and 2016–2023. Positive numbers indicate a weakened sea ice radiative effect. Source: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024GL109608
Steve Bloom retweeted
Super-timely post below from @yulsman on vast areas of wildfire smoke in Canada. Looks like a major glob will get pulled into the central U.S. over the next few days by a weak, slow-moving upper low. Ugh.
From HRRR-Smoke via
pivotalweather.com:
As wildfires have exploded, smoke is billowing across vast reaches of North America. Dramatic remote sensing imagery reveals the large-scaled impact. @DiscoverMag discovermagazine.com/environ…
