#TeamMeredith
Be opposed to a central authority.
Have to establish the central authority 8 years after your founding because the states couldn’t agree on a shared currency and you have no way to repay your war debt.
Back date the country’s founding to the beginning of the war anyway
I use a different digit.
Sounds like the breakfast of champions to me.
In the 13th century, breakfast when eaten sometimes consisted of a piece of rye bread and a bit of cheese. Morning meals would not include any meat, and would likely include 0.4 imperial gallons (1.8 L) of low alcohol-content beers. Uncertain quantities of bread and ale could have been consumed in between meals.
Reject modernity, return to tradition
Well yeah, degrowth is a precondition to any of the mitigation technologies on that list. The water’s coming in into the boat way faster than we can bail, so the priority should be to plug the leaks.
The chart reflects the fact that CCS is an immature technology that will be a nice to have if we can drop the energy requirements and store carbon in a form that’s stable at normal room temperatures and pressures. There’s some bench-scale experiments that have had promising results to that effect, so I don’t see any reason not to fund that research. We spend more money on worse stuff by a country mile.
Plus, all the other bars on that chart have their issues. The mineral requirement to build transmission and storage infrastructure for wind and solar at current rates of energy demand growth will require massive increases in mining for copper and lithium. Agricultural carbon storage has error bars you could drive a truck through because no one can measure it. Attempts to pay farmers for soil carbon sequestration have been a mess and we’re not sure about what the turnover rates for soil carbon pools might be under a warmer and wetter climate. Forest preservation just avoids future emissions and many forests are switching from carbon sinks to sources as they catch fire.
Fuel switching to natural gas: A recent study suggests NG is probably worse than coal. Plus quantification of leakage is notoriously messy.
We’re kinda boned and CCS only really makes sense under FALGSC conditions, but it could help if we manage to pull out of our capitalist nosedive.
While I get the skepticism about CCS because capitalists are idiots, I don’t know about “can’t work”
CCS is great if:
The elephant in the room here is time, because you can’t just hoover up gigatons of carbon overnight. So long as it doesn’t take resources away from more immediate forms of mitigation and adaptation, I think it’s research worth pursuing. But the IRA’s drafters didn’t get that memo.
Didn’t you hear? The earth system works on partial credit. So long as we keep voting in the lesser evil, we don’t need a plan! The climate will just keep issuing waivers.
It’s absolutely bonkers. If the moderators were actually cool instead of your standard centrist corporate invertebrates, they would’ve asked if the candidates have any idea what 2 C warming would do to the United States. I would really love to see what the “at least she’s better than Trump” crowd would do with being forced to accept that their preferred candidate had no plan, either.
It was a bunch of rambling nonsense but in the word salad, she implied that natural gas was a renewable energy source and said something along the lines of the US building out renewable energy and manufacturing (which helps, somehow?)
My partner mentioned that she needed to “sway the independents” and got mad when I responded “all three of them?”
Live poll results from The Oklahoman. The normies are unmoved:
In a just world Kamala’s answer on climate change would’ve gotten her laughed off the stage.
Clutching at John McCain’s corpse like a child’s teddy bear was not on my bingo card tonight
Trump’s losing his pudding and Kamala is making out with an oil derrick but Bob Peoria probably a fan of that.
The reporters’ word of the day calendar came up very serendipitously on “unprecedented” today
Just take 10 minutes (maybe make it an hour depending on your reading pace) and have a look at the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article
Like unless you’re a monarchist or some other weird regressive form of conservative, you are a liberal.
Someone linked a thread here the other day and there was a single user repeatedly spamming even mild pushback (only located by sorting by controversial) with “A vote is a vote.” That’s the level of analysis we’re operating on. It doesn’t matter because points are fungible and the blue team is going to score more. Everything else is out the window because of Project 2025.
The age of context is over. Now is the time of the coconut tree.
Her character quest really resonated with me.