Max Tide

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Checking the mess we're in, and do things - - mostly studying humans, change, climate, history, politics. Feeding myself w/ domestic/wild hybrid, off grid electricity, building things, getting connected and involved.
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This. Also, get involved in the climate movement somehow, using your unique talents and passions. And don’t strive for perfection in any of it. Just help push things in a better direction. Human systems, after all, are made up of individuals.

None of this stuff really matters for climate change. The big items for us as individuals are: - how much & how clean we drive & travel - how much & how clean we heat & cool our homes (and we should heat and cool as much as we need to be safe) - the carbon intensity of what we eat - do we vote

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This is yet another demonstration of the power and success of climate science. Successful predictions like this demonstrate that we understand something fundamental about the climate system. In fact, climate science is a parade of successful predictions.

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Being really dogged in this is the best way to get things done. Because let me tell you: they do not care how many experts tell them their ideas are bad and possibly unconstitutional. They need to fear their constituents.

Max the tax. ... (?)

“But that carbon tax is useless,” they counter; getting to the real objections, driven by solution aversion. Again, NO. This meta-analysis of 21 policies finds that "introducing a carbon price yields immediate + substantial emission reductions despite the low level of prices." We just need more!

Systematic review and meta-analysis of ex-post evaluations on the effectiveness of carbon pricing - Nature Communicationswww.nature.com Carbon pricing policies are adopted in many countries around the world to mitigate climate change. This systematic review shows that significant emission reductions of between 5 and 21% are achieved b...

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We’ve long talked about the carbon budget, but given that the world is on track to pass the 1.5C target in the coming decade its time to start talking about the "carbon debt". My latest piece over at The Climate Brink: www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-growin...

The growing carbon debtwww.theclimatebrink.com Why the climate change is different from other environmental challenges

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In what kind of global climate have your family members lived, and how will they live in future? What legacy would you like to leave them? Fantastic tool by NASA: just enter names and birthdays of your loved ones to get their personalised climate timelines! svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/webapps/clim...

What is a thing that seems positive but is actually negative in the whole? . (And it could flip back at some point) Examples: Recycling (making people feel better about consumption without alleviating much harm) Some eco 'conservation' activities (Band-Aid without diagnosis).

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Wildfire Threats Make Utilities Uninsurable in US West www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Wildfire Threats Make Utilities Uninsurable in US Westwww.bloomberg.com As wildfire season starts, some utilities are now operating without insurance — and are on the hook for millions of dollars in damages if their power lines are linked to a blaze.

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This 🌙 🌓image is considered the clearest ever created. Californian astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy combined snaps of different lunar phases and stacked thousands of Moon photos together to create this masterpiece…

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sea level rise — caused by humans — is making this worse. any house with less than about a foot of water in it would be dry w/o human's warming the climate.

(years estimated) 200 years ago if you didn't have a job (or were rich)youd be arrested and given one. 150 years ago western medicine killed more people than it saved 60 yrs ago women couldn't vote in Quebec.

40 years ago, the ozone hole was still a big problem 60 years ago, rivers were catching fire in the United States Progress is possible! (Hopefully in 2054 there will be a post like “30 years ago, GHG emissions were still at record highs but now they’re near zero”)

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I really appreciate the delicious irony that Australia's oil and gas producers getting sneaky in their advertising is perhaps the best advert for my upcoming book, Slick Pre-order here: www.slickthebook.com.au

Ebikes are so awesome. And yet, their widespread adoption does risk not lowering emissions. I find this rather interesting. I also find it interesting that so few have asked this question. I doubt this exact problem exists for EVs...

here's what I figured on ebikes -- A new bicycle has about 1 tonne of CO2 emissions associated with manufacturing. If the bike replaces car-travel, then it would need to replace about 6-8000 kms of it before it was 'break-even', pollution-wise.

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We can take all the action that is needed to address this. We have the technology already. We just need the political will. www.cbc.ca/news/climate... #climateaction

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🚨 Carbon dioxide (CO₂) levels set a new *record high* in May 2024 - 426.90 ppm (seasonal max) "Carbon dioxide is accumulating in the atmosphere faster than ever..." + NOAA Press Release: noaa.gov/news-release...

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NEW: Police in a border city deployed drones to investigate 20,000 911 calls—from noise complaints to murder. They have amassed hundreds of hours of footage above residents not involved in crimes The poorer the neighborhood, the more exposure residents faced www.wired.com/story/the-ag...

The Age of the Drone Police Is Herewww.wired.com A WIRED investigation, based on more than 22 million flight coordinates, reveals the complicated truth about the first full-blown police drone program in the US—and why your city could be next.

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Good news: Mexico and Iceland have brand new women presidents and both are climate hawks! No surprise, since research consistently shows women leaders are more likely to support climate action, clean energy, and sustainability. More please!

To fight climate change, more female leaders are fundamentalwww.eib.org The EIB Climate Survey asks whether the fight against climate change would be more effective if we had more female leaders. Women think so. Many men disagree.

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Vermont on Thursday became the first U.S. state to pass a law that will charge fossil fuel companies for damages caused by climate change, opening a new front in the struggle by governments across the world to hold companies accountable for products that emit planet-warming gases.

Vermont to Require Fossil-Fuel Companies to Pay for Climate Damagewww.nytimes.com Under the country’s first “climate superfund” law, Vermont will charge large emitters for climate-related damage to the state.

what is the opposite of an environmentalist? Seriously. If we're going to label people as environmentalists (even when they're really just trying to save people/the economy/healthcare etc from the damage to the environment)... then I think it would only be fair to label those on the other side.

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It is one of the worst and longest heatwaves hittin4 #Mexico.More than 100 #wildfires from #Yucatan to central areas, wide #drought are the results. And temperatures could rise again in few days. Here #GOES16 in a 12hrs animation of May24 #oladecalor #climateemergency @katharinehayhoe.com

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I'm glad they're doing this, but there's a lesson here for the "we'll adapt to climate change" crowd. It's expensive and difficult, even for the richest country in the world. What are poor countries going to do? The answer is that they will suffer. www.chron.com/gulf-coast/a...

Ike Dike now officially 0.0014 percent on the way to completionwww.chron.com The massive coastal-defense infrastructure project is now underway after the Army Corps of Engineers allowed the first $500K of an estimated $34 billion.

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Here we have the Environmental Defense Fund and Conservation International opposing a California bill that would require the offsets industry to make accurate marketing statements. Because truthful advertising would stifle investment. Think about that. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2024...

POLITICO Pro: Environmental groups issue floor alert against Limón offset billsubscriber.politicopro.com

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China is deploying 10MW grid scale Na-ion batteries that charge to 90% in 12 minutes. The facility is expanding to 100MW. Charge during the day on solar and at night on wind & you don’t need much if any other fuels. 🧪💡🔌 electrek.co/2024/05/17/c...

China's first large-scale sodium-ion battery charges to 90% in 12 minuteselectrek.co China's first major sodium-ion battery energy storage station is now online, according to China Southern Power Grid Energy Storage.

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I've also never spent so much time making, check, and re-checking a single chart as I did on this one: bsky.app/profile/zhir...

Is your favorite fashion brand cutting emissions? Here's how American Eagle, Fast Retailing, Gap, Lululemon + 16 others compare (but for many others the available data makes it tricky to assess): Full story at Bloomberg News here, with a free link: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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We know heat pumps play a critical role in affordable energy bills and keeps our homes safe and more comfortable during these record-breaking heat temperatures. We commend this week’s funding announcement to make heat pumps more affordable in British Columbia.

B.C., Ottawa put up nearly $254M to expand heat pump rebatesbc.ctvnews.ca The B.C. and federal governments have set aside nearly $254 million to expand rebates to convert home heating and cooling systems to more climate-friendly options with a focus on low- and middle-incom...

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Last night more than 3,000 people were told to immediately leave their homes and start driving 400 km south to the next closest city. Me and my colleagues went to air with special radio programming giving updates every 15 minutes, as there is spotty cell service www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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This week, Trump solicited a bribe from the oil companies and promised to roll back Biden’s climate policies in exchange for oil executive contributions.

If you care at all about climate change, you have never before been presented a clearer and status starker choice in a presidential election

What Trump promised oil CEOs as he asked them to steer $1 billion to his campaignwapo.st Donald Trump has pledged to scrap President Biden’s policies on electric vehicles and wind energy, and other initiatives opposed by the fossil fuel industry.