Chris Wilke

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is really bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: nytimes.com/2025/12/18/opi…

@KitsapTransit you left me stranded in the rain. Your 186 driver did not pick up any waiting passengers at southworth 7:55pm Last bus of the day. In the rain. At night. The driver apparently did the same thing to someone last night according to a WSF employee. Response?

Elon Musk, the richest guy in the world, is going after USAID, which feeds the poorest people in the world. Next, he’ll go after the programs that impact you: Medicaid, Medicare, community health centers, Pell Grants, affordable housing. We can stop him.

@Sambandet @ClimateDad77 This chart is debunked & irrelevant to current discussions. Anyone still using it is just dense. Sorry but it's true. Most of that graph is unsurvivable for modern humans +most animals & plants alive today. No one serious believes that upper ranges are desirable. Try another...

@ClimateDad77 Moron, more recovery from 50 million years of severe cooling means a greener future with more life as it was 60 million years ago when it was +10C warmer than today ❤️

Britain leads world in slide to corporate owned authoritarianism. Democracy is as dead as our futures when laws are actually being written by think tanks funded by the psychopathic corporations profiting from our demise. 1/2 theguardian.com/environment/20…

@TaylorGrimesDog @ClimateDad77 Look at per capita emissions. Otherwise size of country skews this comparison. It's like crime rate per 100,000 ppl. Much more useful than total # to target problems. USA, Canada, Australia, Saudi Arabia among worst. India is less than 1/2 global average despite recent growth.

@ClimateDad77 You fail to acknowledge that China India and the USA are emitting more polluting month on month than we contribute in total. Target these not threatening our existence whilst others flourish. Renewables are great but we need 50% gas back up minimum Population explosion causes

@copenhenken @UNFCCC @EuCyclistsFed @EUClimateAction @PATHwalkcycle @COP26 @COP29_AZ @COP30Amazonia @WRIRossCities @wef I think it could be 25% in some developed countries, but closer to 15% globally. (IPCC 2021)

2024 will be the warmest year on record. ~ 25% of Greenhouse Gas emissions is from transport ~ 75% of all transport emissions is from road transport ~ 2/3 of road transport emissions is from cars ~ 1/2 of all car trips is < 5 km and can easily be done by bike. Just sayin’

@janrosenow Impressive. Need to take out hydropower though. Not clean, not green. Arguably not renewable, given the impacts. Emits methane and destroys food security, ecosystem resilience, biodiversity and carbon sequestration.

One chart, many stories. Predicted renewable energy deployment vs actual deployment.

This DOE report sounds like bad news for LNG exports. The industry will try and spin this as "no big deal," but early reporting suggests that the DOE found that exports: 1. Drive up costs 2. Hurt communities 3. Pollute the Climate Here's why that matters 🧵

Oil and gas companies are using higher energy prices to push for new projects but there is not an energy shortage. We have just added wind & solar capacity +improved efficiencies. Many new projects are for exports & do nothing for energy security or lower domestic energy prices.

@dhp180 @Rail_splitter1 @GrantCardone It’s not a conspiracy just because you add a ? mark. It’s actually public information, because Biden, like all other candidates since 1976, shared his tax returns. Something you-know-who has refused to do.

@Rail_splitter1 @GrantCardone Biden’s got rich without having any product or service to beat revenue source…how is this even possible?

Dear Trump Administration, I know you’re all committed to making America all it can be & Trump wants all Americans to have wealth. It’s time ALL Americans have access to the SAME financial information & strategies used by the wealthy and connected. This can be done at scale at almost no cost and there is no better person to lead the way than Donald Trump who represents financial success. I have already assembled a diverse team of experts who will contribute their time & expertise, the technology exist to scale to the public and we can start on Jan 20 providing ALL Americans with financial literacy and start rebuild the American middle class and build the wealthiest nation in the world.

@LivingColour @vurnt22 @vurnt22 is one of the best people remaining on X. Great story! Keep the love!❤️

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@THTGTruth @RussellSeitz @ryankatzrosene in 1985 perhaps, but we have been guzzling the "poison" at increasing levels ever since, without a pause. The effects are clearly worsening & will soon be intolerable or unsurvivable. Meanwhile the "cure" is within reach & involves far less sacrifice. Metaphor does not hold.

@RussellSeitz @ryankatzrosene What Sagan says is exactly what the climate cultists get wrong. It's almost certain humanity has an impact on the climate. How much? We don't know for sure. There is no consideration given to the idea that the cure might be worse than the poison.

Climate denier who says CO2 doesn't warm the atmosphere quotes Carl Sagan. Who's gonna tell him?😂

@ryankatzrosene This is definitely a weird phenomenon, but it tracks.

#Fascism is on the march Elon Musk publicized the names of government employees he wants to cut. It’s terrifying federal workers | CNN Business cnn.com/2024/11/27/bus…

@themildperil @ryankatzrosene What you describe is runaway CC. I don’t think we are close to it. The truth is bad enough. To your point, we still have to stop burning fossil fuels to reach net 0. Aerosols, or no aerosols. Aerosol effect is real & removal shock is real, but haven’t seen basis for 50% claim.

@SkeeperChris @ryankatzrosene The problem is, as I understand it, there is already enough GHG in the atmosphere to trigger feedbacks so that natural GHG sinks reverse and emit instead. Net zero with aerosols removed won't cool the planet.

🧵A lot of folks seem to misuse Jevons' Paradox. Some seem to suggest that the Paradox says that technological innovations will result in greater environmental damage. But that's not really what the Paradox said!

@themildperil @ryankatzrosene 50%? Please send pertinent links to aerosol masking from fossil fuels (post maritime emissions reduction) This also underscores need for methodical, ambitious & sustained FF reductions, no? Rather than hoping for a future tech/mkt breakthrough (shock inducing if slope too steep)

@SkeeperChris @ryankatzrosene The point I make about aerosols: so far they have masked about half the heating from human GHG. The masking effect disappears within weeks but the cooling from emission reductions takes decades, hence abrupt heating unless we replace the aerosols.

@themildperil @ryankatzrosene Being realistic: Most anthropogenic warming is caused by fossil fuels. Warming on current track will kill us & much of the planet if we let it. Any approach that imagines a market solution without a precise, aggressive and mandatory phaseout will not work. Zero chance of success.

@SkeeperChris @ryankatzrosene Ok, but let’s be realistic that this means hyperinflation and economic collapse if you shut down faster than new energy comes on line. Also abrupt warming from loss of aerosols unless they are replaced.

@themildperil @ryankatzrosene Who said anything about abrupt? I think we can both agree there is a near zero chance of a precipitous drop of fossil fuels. But, we need to set a target through trade agreements & govt regulation going beyond incentivizing alternatives (this then provides its own incentive).

@themildperil @ryankatzrosene Which is why we need to shift the focus to shutting down fossil fuels

@SkeeperChris @ryankatzrosene Renewables, electrification, and more efficient technology are all synergistic with fossil energy because they drive growth and therefore increased consumption of all resources.

@MattWollenb @ryankatzrosene Exactly☝️ …and amid much celebration on EV rollout and RE installations. I am not against EVs or RE but it doesn’t slow climate change until we start to shut down FF extraction, and we are motivated to doing that.

@ryankatzrosene Wasn’t coal basically just replaced by methane/natural gas? Better in the long term sure, but worse for the climate in the near future. Efficiency still being gobbled up to produce ever greater emissions.