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ClimateCal
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ClimateCal
@climatecal
Be a better ancestor.
California, USA Inscrit le Aralık 2015
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We still have the Santa Cruz Island Fox if anyone wants a head start on domesticating a fox that has absolutely no fear of humans. I was ~4 feet from this guy when I took this, which is extraordinary for a fox.
Ryan Moulton@moultano
Really sad that whenever humans encountered island tameness, their first reaction was to eat them rather than to start the domestication process and give us delightful new pets. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_ta…
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Was @_david_ho_. Hey, a request for @moultano who hangs out at bluesky, could you try asking the thinkers there about what would be good alternative Earthday kid climate actions (other than planting trees) that would advance the energy transition?
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@AndyMasley (and re "plant trees", someone did a "time machine" thought experiment that was very illuminating, he had it as a pinned tweet, a year's tree planting would offset several minutes of CO2 emissions...
not sure who, or where. I shall ask grok?)
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Separate from the water stuff I thought we all got the message that planting trees is a fake climate intervention
fai nur@faionur
a new app, Eco GPT, is pushing a ton of ads on tiktok that they’re an eco-friendly ai chatbot that uses “less water” than “big ai” and yes it’s a basic chat gpt wrapper with a paywall lying to gullible people 🤷♀️
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ClimateCal retweeté
“The way to make carbon dioxide removal (CDR) successful is to insist on the right framing for its role. It is not a substitution for decarbonization. It’s a separate process, occurring mostly after decarbonization is complete, for legacy and residual emissions.”
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@AndyMasley How do you mean planting trees a fake climate intervention? The fact that most projects fail or the principle of planting them at all?
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@AndyMasley Grok is so cool, it was David Ho:
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David Ho@_david_ho_
Q: How far back in time does planting 100 million trees take us. A: If one mature tree takes up an average of 25 kg of CO₂ per year, then 100 million trees will take up 2.5 MtCO₂. That's a time machine that take us back 33 minutes and 47 seconds in a year. It's not a lot.
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@moultano @AndyMasley Best case, trees act as an airbag (cushion).
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@AndyMasley It's not *that* fake on the scale of carbon removal generally, which doesn't have easy wins. The big issue is being way too optimistic about the durability/longevity of the planted trees when you do the carbon accounting.
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@AndyMasley Yeah, we humans do prefer trees. Link to rebuttal of "plant many trees": reddit.com/r/climate/comm…
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@TomSteyer Where are you on single-stair? (And is that also a security risk, come to think of it)
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The average California homebuyer used to be 32. Today they're 49.
We used to build 300K homes per year. Now we barely build 100K.
That's why housing is so damn expensive. I'll fix it.
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These benefits are both good. Are there inherent security risks to shading a parkinglot with solar? (I know that I feel safer in the open air, if around people I'm not sure of.)
If so, are there ways minimize the added risk? Who is our solar red-teamer?
Give A Shit About Nature@giveashitnature
There are pretty much countless large parking lots for cars, and installing solar panels over them would generate half the electricity we use. Not only would this be an efficient use of land, but it would also help keep the cars cooler while parked.
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ClimateCal retweeté
This is the thing about economic growth in the modern west.
There is no growth without physical transformation — new people, new homes, new infrastructure — and everywhere it actually happens people get upset at the fact of change.
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ClimateCal retweeté
India is not doing this for the climate. India does not have the natural gas resource of the US, and certainly not enough to support the power needs of a population nearly 5X the US. They are investing in domestic solar mfg also. This is energy independence and economics.
Assaad Razzouk@AssaadRazzouk
India just smashed the 150 GW solar milestone >Added 44.6 GW of solar in 1 year, up 87% y-on-y (that's more than the total installed solar capacity of the UK or Spain) >Global solar leaderboard shifting fast: India now 3rd largest solar power globally after China with 1,200 GW (in a league of its own) and the US at 280 GW (falling behind the pace) - surpassing traditional solar leaders like Japan and Germany "Impossible" targets are just a lack of will: India achieved its target of having 50% of its total installed electricity capacity from non-fossil fuel sources in June 2025, reaching this milestone 5 years ahead of its original 2030 deadline set under the Paris Agreement pv-magazine.com/2026/04/10/ind…
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ClimateCal retweeté
This is what the novel Ministry of the Future got wrong, with its horrifying "wet-bulb" event in India, where the grid goes down and air conditioning becomes unavailable, letting heat kill a million people. Now in places with fragile grids, people are taking matters into their own hands with cheap distributed solar.
Democratizing technology leads to self-reliance.
Rami SD@SyrianShabab
This is the Al-Furqan neighbourhood in Aleppo—the number of solar panels is genuinely impressive.
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ClimateCal retweeté
Summary of my argument:
Five-minute EV charging will be available to you.
It will come at a cost.
In the US, drivers will generally not choose to pay that cost.
People will discover that that feature isn’t actually very important.
Ubiquitous, reliable charging *is* important.
Tom Moyer 🇺🇸@TomMoyerUT
Unpopular opinion: This is a party trick and won’t be used much because the infrastructure to deliver 1.5 MW is expensive. Having ubiquitous, reliable charging is a lot more important than cutting the charge time from 15 minutes to 5 minutes.
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