“The [oil and gas] industry’s focus on clean energy technologies is a way to preserve that core business, Occidental CEO Vicki Hollub said. ‘We believe that our direct capture technology is going to be the technology that helps to preserve our industry over time,’ Hollub told the audience. ‘This gives our industry a license to continue to operate for the 60, 70, 80 years that I think it’s going to be very much needed.’” https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/08/oil-industry-shift-climate-tech-00085853 #ClimateChange

Attending Berkeley’s CERT Unit 1: Disaster Preparedness & Berkeley Hazards 101. One thing you can do with climate change worries is to prepare to help address problems when they arise. Look for CERT training in your city! https://berkeleyca.gov/safety-health/disaster-preparedness/community-emergency-response-team-cert #ClimateChange #DisasterPreparedness #Berkeley

“And yet I remain glad I live where I do, not because it’s protected from climate change, but because it’s at least a little bit more equipped to deal with it. And that, in turn, is because it has high levels of social trust.” I like this message a lot. (Via Laura Olin’s newsletter.) https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/where-should-i-live #ClimateChange

(1) Okay, good. (2) There is nothing magical about years divisible by 10. The proposal should be “immediately” and the fallback should be as close to immediately as possible. Not “eh maybe the next year ending in zero.” https://electrek.co/2023/08/16/new-york-ev-rideshare-fleets-2030/ #ClimateChange

“The Texas project, led by the Occidental Petroleum Corp., also known as Oxy…” Oh, yes, totally. 😵‍💫 (gift link) https://wapo.st/3OFIM9I #ClimateChange

It’s completely valid to react to this with both, “That’s a useful and cost-effective approach” and, “Come on, the real need is to fly a lot less.” If it felt to me that we were making the obvious, cheap, extremely high-impact interventions, and then using approaches like this one to clean up what we can’t reduce, I’d be a lot more excited about it. As it is, it feels more like these stories serve to tell people, “You can keep doing what you’re doing now.” https://blog.google/technology/ai/ai-airlines-contrails-climate-change/ #ClimateChange

I was struck by how well these British WWII austerity posters read as climate change messages. We need something of a wartime mindset. #ClimateChange

I thought this was excellent and it’s well worth your time. #ClimateChange https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/26/we-cant-afford-to-be-climate-doomers

Belgian Malinois Rescued From 114°F/45°C Heat

#ClimateChange
#DogsOfMastodon
#California
#CaliforniaWeather

https://youtube.com/watch?v=5el1Pfwv5nM&feature=share

Absolutely incredible and wonderful. Invest in protected lanes and public transit, and make driving more expensive with congestion pricing, and the results will follow. https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2023/07/11/cycles-now-outnumber-cars-in-city-of-london/ #ClimateChange #Cycling #London

If there’s anything that dire #ClimateChange news stories—record heat, melting ice, disturbing the axis, and so on—should tell you, it’s that human decisions *do* have the ability to bring about planet-scale effects. If we’ve already done it, we can do it again with more intention and to more positive effects. We have to decide to, but it’s possible.

I do appreciate this commitment, and others like it, in principle. I just wish we weren’t using decade boundaries as planning markers. Selling internal combustion cars *today* is making the problem far worse *today* and there’s no reason to wait for a year ending in 0 to end that. Try: “We have started retooling factories and drawing down ICE inventories and we are proceeding with all available speed to make that shift immediately.” https://www.carscoops.com/2023/06/volvo-vows-to-go-all-electric-not-sell-another-ice-vehicle-after-2030/ #ClimateChange

Of course there’s more to the story: electrify everything, support public transit (like, don’t let it fail!), stop flying, and more. But, y’know, starting with bikes would be a quick way to make progress. And we need to make a lot more progress. #ClimateChange

For the U.S., for California, and for Berkeley (where I live), the sector producing the greatest greenhouse gas emissions is transportation. Most US car trips are under five miles and could easily be replaced by bikes or ebikes. The fastest and most cost-efficient way to get people to drive less is to make it safer and more welcoming to bike, by building protected bike lanes. It’s that simple. #ClimateChange

Do I have some bike-related t-shirt for every occasion? Maybe. Is this one too simplistic? I mean, kinda, sure… but kinda not. #ClimateChange

I'll always remember what my son asked in September 2020, when the Bay Area had orange skies: “Did we break the sun?”

He's grown up hearing about climate change, melting glaciers, and so on. Maybe the idea that we could break a star feels closer to possible as a result.

We have broken something, though, if not the sun. And we're still breaking it, every day. We should stop.

#ClimateChange

This is *literally* the Hopkins debate. Opponents said this on camera, to the Washington Post, as a way of making their arguments. And then called themselves environmentalists. See 5:00 on this video: https://wapo.st/3TlYRTU #ClimateChange #Berkeley

California: “High-speed rail will be delayed by decades, go far slower than promised, and cost many billions more.” Californians: “Welp, nothing to be done.”

Netherlands: “For 11 months, you will have to change trains in Brussels to travel by train from London to Amsterdam.”
Dutch: “Absolutely not, unacceptable, go find a solution.”

https://nltimes.nl/2023/06/07/government-now-trying-keep-eurostar-amsterdam-intense-criticism

#ClimateChange #Tågskryt

Incredible message and execution, via @kottke. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3yEg-380xY #ClimateChange #CarlSagan

Replacing one climate mess with another may not be the best strategy (and remember you can make batteries for between 50 and 150 ebikes from the materials for one EV battery): 🎁⛓️ https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/21/business/economy/minerals-electric-cars-batteries.html?unlocked_article_code=XhqMSShEmHSIHOyoI4ZG_58KlmXASQD27VAg2heXAJ-kXxwriI4_zharAcm1m0M7e8X6fqu_uCJ4S5VV1gH-s4sE-838_C7w04R-IuCAmZVaxG7x9nCc2bv221hiIFAziTGxEH7nHJg26diMUjjOwnuj3m1WucZlWQKozaY1PZiUrfLiGEKd9JYCa9WWWTB2t2G7Cpk3ugFROVpFEHnz77EnLPUB0rp-_ne6xV3wGuL-g9WwPCOyqlagxSZTVsVGF6vC06aLe8oZYzWdNHEXnMHwoBz3dNCH4EsAzxsftNuV7_NkMT7GtJDe_CR4p01-yERRvsvlAwyX0ZH1nDaZLfncHfVGgEPd4yvWeiI5J-Z4gPo&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare #EBikes #EVs #Batteries #ClimateChange