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Read this entire thing. From a congressman who knows energy and climate policy.

New from me: How energy experts missed the U.S. oil boom - a look back 10 years after the lifting of the crude oil export “ban.”

I cannot think of a single way in which this makes society better. You're now going to have people financially - on top of emotionally - vested in their opinions which can only create further polarization. Societies need consensus, hard to see how you help achieve this when

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This is, indeed, the way.

“Put simply, the outlook is grim. It is highly likely that Thwaites Glacier will eventually be lost, which will destabilise adjoining parts of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, increasing the committed long-term rise in global mean sea level by more than 3 m.”

Key messages from the World Maritime Organization’s report on Sea Level Rise: - Current rate of sea-level rise is 4.7mm/year - Half a meter by 2100 is unavoidable even with Paris compliance - 2 meters by 2100 cannot be ruled out (under high emissions scenario) - 1 billion people

3C of global warming means droughts, & floods, of historically unprecedented magnitudes across broad swaths of the planet. It means the collapse of ecosystems, and possibly even cascading effects that could trigger any number of critical Earth system "tipping points." [12/n]

3C of global warming means many feet of sea level rise, fundamentally altering coastlines and swamping megacities home to 100s of millions. It means heatwaves that in humid regions could become, literally, unsurvivable for those outdoors without access to active cooling. [11/n]

Here's the thing: 2.5-3C of global warming is actually still really bad news. Is it better than 3-5C of warming? Undoubtedly. But I don't think many folks, apparently including Gates & advisors, appreciate just how radically transformed a 2.5-3C warmer world would be. [10/n]

Whatever you think about the long-term impact of AI on the climate, in the near term, it's helping to keep some of America's dirtiest power plants running - and polluting - years after they should have been closed. @QuentinGood4 dug up the details.

Energy efficiency is one of the unsung public policy triumphs of the last half century. The volume of fossil fuels we might have consumed, but didn't, is overwhelming. This tweetstorm, and our new article, have the details.

Across America, fossil fuel power plants that were once headed to retirement are being kept alive to serve rising demand (largely, though not entirely, from data centers). Our new post finds that the wave of delayed retirements is growing - threatening our air and climate.

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My Grand Unified Theory of American discontent is that the post WWII period in America was highly highly anomalous in a ton of ways that generations of Americans have seen as "normal" - and view our departure from as a fall.

I mean, yeah. But then you’d need to have the debate about societal values and what constitutes the good that the Abundance movement has thus far taken tremendous pains to avoid.

Following yesterday's @UCSUSA deep-dive explaining how data centers are raising transmission rates, Bloomberg has a new analysis that connects wholesale energy prices to data centers. Here's the big reveal:

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FWIW: I wrote a while ago about Abundance World fascination with flying cars, why they’d be a nightmare at any significant scale, and how the arguments for them mimic the failed promises of automobility.

Our latest. Going solar is good for Pennsylvania schools. And schools going solar is good for Pennsylvania as a whole.