Sarah T. Fischell

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Climate action advocate. Born at ~314 ppm. @estee_nj on Twitter etc. Climate solutions & #energytwitter fan. Unitarian Universalist, @CitizensClimate, Cornell. She/her/hers. Band person.

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Certainly sales of non-hybrid ICE cars has decreased as sales of BEV, hybrid and PHEV are increasing. Here's data from the EIA to March 2024. 🧪🔌💡🔌🚗 www.eia.gov/todayinenerg....

U.S. share of electric and hybrid vehicle sales decreased in the first quarter of 2024 - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)www.eia.gov

More from my climate #playlist… This one’s not entirely “a propos”, but it’s got the right spirit: “Which Side Are You On” from Pete Seeger. ✊ www.google.com/search?q=whi...

which side are you on youtube - Google Searchwww.google.com

A well-respected local enviro org wants to do research to stop offshore wind in NJ. #OSW Harms might be sand replenishment & wildlife. IMHO they could spend their $$$ better elsewhere. My study ideas: - can DERs reduce need for OSW - benefits of reduced O&G shipping Your ideas?

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Thinking a lot lately about how California needs to cut climate pollution ~7-8% per year from now on, has nothing like the necessary policies in place to do so, and how nearly everyone else is even farther off track. We have so much work to do, you guys.

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Good climate policy news of the day

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“While rain pelted North Carolina and raised the threat of flooding across the state, officials were monitoring almost 70 dams and lagoons holding animal waste that had overflowed or were at risk of failing on Thursday, a number that more than doubled between the morning and the afternoon. …”

Rising Waters From Tropical Storm Debby Put North Carolina Waste Sites at Riskwww.nytimes.com Tropical Storm Debby brought intense rainfall and flooding threats to North Carolina on Thursday, highlighting the vulnerability of hog lagoons and wastewater treatment plants.

More songs from the climate #playlist: Jackson Browne’s “For Everyman”. Do u know the story? The song was written as a response to “Wooden Ships” and is intended to remind us that deliverance from apocalypse must come for everyone, not just for the select few. So…rest as u need, but keep going.

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Building offshore wind energy capacity in CT Here’s some blades and towers being assembled at the New London state pier & a ship arriving with generator housings Then they’ll go 32 miles southeast where Revolution Wind will generate 304 megawatts #climatesky

I don’t think I’ve shared much of my “climate” playlist over here yet. #playlist At any rate, a lot of the songs are about floods & power outages. (I gotta go look for fire related content.) Here’s one of the best: McMurtry’s “Hurricane Party”https://youtu.be/lQI_lI0vC6Y?si=_M1AufEGqhIHrxuq

James McMurtry - Hurricane Partyyoutu.be James McMurtry performs "Hurricane Party" at WNRN in Charlottesville, Virginia on September 18, 2009 before his show at The Southern. Please subscribe to our videos!

Yesterday’s sunset off the town dock. (FYI: lots of places in the Garden State, aka NJ, are beautiful.)

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We're with Jane www.wired.com/story/wired-... #Climate

Jane Goodall Thinks It’s Not Too Late to Save the Worldwww.wired.com The world, the famed primatologist says, isn’t what it used to be—but there’s still time to save it, if we treat crises like climate change, biodiversity loss, and poverty as one.

The worst super power is climate vision: the ability to imagine what a landscape will look like 50 or 100 years hence if we don’t stop burning fossil fuels. But more and more we don’t need imagination: our most precious landscapes r changing before our eyes. #ActOnClimate x.com/misterduncan...

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Your occasional reminder that climate change is making these rain events more severe than they otherwise would be. This is one of the ways climate change is making hurricanes more destructive. Read more on The Climate Brink: www.theclimatebrink....

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The Biden-Harris Administration's policies helped double America's solar power plants in the last three years. Double.

"half of America’s solar capacity was installed in the last three and a half years. There’s now enough capacity to power 32.5 million homes." Not too shabby, right @lissaharris.bsky.social?

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Here's the thing about weird creeps- their proposed policies are also weird and creepy, and also bad.

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This is a remarkable paragraph. Through all the incredible internal US political drama of July, intense international prisoner swap negotiations were going on behind the scenes. Biden was on the phone to the Slovenians right before he announced he would not run again!

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President Venn Diagram xkcd.com/2962

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For folks that don’t work in climate & energy, it may not be apparent what a gamechanger President Biden was in climate policy. Things that we in the climate community wanted to do FOREVER, Biden got them done. There’s lots more to do, but thanks to Biden we have a shot www.volts.wtf/p/getting-re...

Getting ready for IRA 2www.volts.wtf In his recent role as Chief Advisor for the Clean Energy Transition in the White House Office of Science and Technology, Costa Samaras helped roadmap the cleantech future laid out by Democrats’ legisl...

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Watching the signs wave as Usha Vance told her immigrant story was a whole mood.

I've seen a lot of one-offs of people holding these signs, but what is truly chilling is a sea of these being held up by delegates.

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The US steel manufacturing fleet is the worlds's oldest. Decision time: invest in modern DRI tech or lock in coal use (& CO2 emissions & health impacts) for another 15 to 20 years. The good news: steel emissions are no longer "hard to abate"! www.canarymedia.com/articles/gre...

Cleaner steelmaking is actually starting to happenwww.canarymedia.com A new report is “cautiously optimistic” about global efforts to decarbonize iron and steel production. But a rise in coal-based steelmaking threatens that progress.

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China will install 50+ GW of wind this year, so when it’s excluded from a figure, the image is distorted.

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When you engage people in climate solutions, it makes them more supportive of climate action - even in some cases changing their mind about whether it's real and it's serious. I tell some compelling stories of this happening in my book Saving Us but here's the cross-sectional data!

Overcoming Polarization on Climate Changewww.powerofusnewsletter.com Issue 127: A new study finds that people across the political spectrum will take climate change action--we need to connect this to their broader sense of identity.

What an interesting simulation. V helpful!

Thread: Each week I run a simulation of Australia’s main electricity grid using rescaled generation data to show that it can get very close to 100% renewable electricity with 24GW/120GWh of storage (5 hrs at av demand) Results: last week: 95.6% RE last 151 weeks: 98.5% RE (1/4)

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This is not good. We're going to pay companies who claim to be making "clean hydrogen" but cause emissions to go up. Sigh. Good piece about bad news by @emilypont.bsky.social heatmap.news/economy/hydr...

The Hydrogen Tax Credit Rules Are Effectively Deadheatmap.news The “three pillars” are crumbling.

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A heatwave in Eastern Europe is generating temperatures of 42-44°C (107-111°F). Anthropogenic climate change - how to slow it, mitigate it, adapt to and survive it, how to care for one another as we succumb to it - is the most critical issue of ours or of any lifetime.

@dananuccitelli.bsky.social FYI. Maybe you would be a good fit for this?

If you or someone you know can spare half an hour to help us make US energy data more accessible, we'd love to chat! 🔌💡 @costasamaras.bsky.social @danielhuppmann.bsky.social @shastingssimon.bsky.social @sfischell.bsky.social @sevier.io @katharinehayhoe.com @kellyhereid.bsky.social

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One of the most important questions in climate economics is whether climate damages will slow economic growth. Because growth compounds over time, hundreds of trillions of dollars could hinge on the answer, as I explore @climateconnections.bsky.social (1/7) yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/07/how-...

How much will climate change drag down the economy? » Yale Climate Connectionsyaleclimateconnections.org It’s a trillion-dollar question.

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Hey #EnergySky & #ClimateSky we recently won an NSF POSE grant to help cultivate a more sustainable open source energy data ecosystem, and we're going to be doing a *bunch* of interviews with energy data users and open source contributors over the next month. 🔌💡 🧵 1/n catalyst.coop/2024/07/09/p...

PUDL awarded NSF POSE grant - Catalyst Cooperativecatalyst.coop We are excited to share that the Public Utility Data Liberation Project (PUDL) and Catalyst Cooperative have been awarded a Pathways to Open Source Ecosystems (POSE) Phase I grant by the National Scie...

#NewWord = “clean heating” IDK how I missed knowing this term previously, but I like it! (Good heat pump article as well)

I'm tired of explaining to poorly-informed journalists that heat pumps are a key solution for clean heating. Many of his misleading claims are addressed in detail with evidence provided in my Carbon Brief long read here: www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-18...

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My sister said the cybertruck looks like a Dustbuster and I’m gunna have to give her that one