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Katharine Hayhoe
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Yesterday, I shared this same Canada Day thread on Bluesky, Threads, and X. Here's what I found. 🧵
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Hisham Zerriffi@hishamzerriffi.bsky.social |
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Energy Resources, Development and Environment Lab (ERDELab) PI, @UBCforestry Assc Dean EDI. Energy, equity, justice, climate change, bioenergy. But also photography and TTRPGs. he/him. Also at fediscience.org/@hishamzerriffi.
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Katharine Hayhoe
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Yesterday, I shared this same Canada Day thread on Bluesky, Threads, and X. Here's what I found. 🧵
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc)
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Over at the Bad Place, I made a tradition of posting Douglass' "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth of July," and I intend to carry on that tradition here. Since most versions you read in classes or in textbooks have parts omitted, the link below has the full text of the speech.
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Hisham Zerriffi
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Hisham Zerriffi
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Some interesting pop culture history in this thread. I knew some of it (e.g. Lewis v. Tolkien) but definitely not all.
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Hisham Zerriffi
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Hisham Zerriffi
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Hisham Zerriffi
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Hisham Zerriffi
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Overheard on C train in NYC: "You know how the US projects its military power all over the world to do whatever the f*ck it wants? That's how I feel about pizza!" Don't know what it means but this woman really loves her pizza.
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Hisham Zerriffi
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Hisham Zerriffi
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Air freight emissions have gone up. More air shipping of items that are not perishable or time sensitive since pandemic.
Article based on report by former ERDELab member Dr. Devyani Singh. Cool to see former lab members off doing cool stuff.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Hisham Zerriffi
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Hisham Zerriffi
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No I'm trying to imagine what a bouncer at an academic conference would look like. 😂 Also, uggh at AiChE men being aholes.
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Mekka Okereke
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Most *white* Americans. There is no country on earth that imprisons more of its population than the US. Prisoners disproportionately Black. The US leads the world in child executions. Not a typo. Disproportionately Black. Life expectancy for US Black folk lower than for Uighur Chinese. Not a typo
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Hisham Zerriffi
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Career News! Promotion to Professor as of yesterday. Tbh, was ambivalent abt this when I put in promotion package. Was mostly for instrumental reasons. But after gong show that was my tenure case, I changed my mind. I deserve this. But also all thanks to my team and collaborators over the years.
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Hisham Zerriffi
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Remember when Instagram was a place to see people's photos? Before it became...whatever it is now. Good news. The Fediverse equivalent (PixelFed) is pretty awesome. I'm enjoying spending 10-15 minutes every morning scrolling through a feed that is all photography. 📷📸 You can find me there at:
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Jesse D. Jenkins
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The Supreme Court just blew up four decades of precedent today, in a decision that will make it harder for executive agencies to protect the environment, public health, worker safety and more.
www.axios.com/2024/06/28/s...
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Kieran Healy
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Overturning Chevron is going to usher in an era where self-taught judicial expertise in technical areas such as chemistry, statistics, mechanical engineering, biology, geomorphology, epidemiology, mathematics, and many other fields will once more be able to shine forth as it did in the Middle Ages.
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Justin Mikulka
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More on how despite supposedly good faith efforts by Colorado government, the oil industry wins again. And is all set up to walk away from its debts. “Negotiation and compromise cost six years of delay with no tangible improvement” in covering budget shortfalls Regulatory delay works for big oil.
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Hisham Zerriffi
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We're well past that stage but I feel your pain. It will get better. Promise. It is surprising how many of the memorable moments of parenting end up being about dealing with a small human's bodily fluids.
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Transgender World
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GLAAD is responding to a sensational article about healthcare for transgender people in the New York Times with facts
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
se-to-new-york-times-coveragla'>ge/'>glaad.org/releases/r...
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Hisham Zerriffi
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This is what bothered me when I saw that proposal to criminalize scientific fraud. Yes, you can try to limit it to cases of data manipulation, etc, and not disagreements on methods or interpretation. But that's assuming good faith actors bringing the allegation forward.
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Hisham Zerriffi
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Yup. Knew some of the people involved. Suing Clack specifically was something else. Yes, he was 1st author but also the only person on the author list without a big institution to back him up.
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Hisham Zerriffi
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The China loans get a lot of attention because they are the majority of Kenya's bilateral debt. But that only represents about 15% of China's total debt because multilateral debt is higher (World Bank is their largest lender).
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Hisham Zerriffi
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Think microsized nuclear reactors can be used to provide electricity access where it doesn't currently exist?
Not so fast. This analysis shows how both technical, economic and governance limits mean that only 2-5% of the potential market might actually be viable.
#EnergySky #SDG7
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Hisham Zerriffi
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Kenya spends 61 cents of every tax dollar on repaying its loans.
Every article on the protests about the Kenyan finance bill I've seen buries that fact somewhere at the bottom.
Seems to me that's where they should start.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Jacob T. Levy
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Yes. Both can be true; indeed, both are true, and not only at Harvard. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/26/u...
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Daniel Abraham
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One of the interesting things about the Internet is that we’re actually living through a dark age. Future historians are unlikely to have records of this period.
Paper and ink last. Digital storage, less so.
variety.com/2024/tv/news...
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Hisham Zerriffi
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An Inclusive Agenda for Energizing Transitions in Hidden Energy Communities
Check out this webinar with my colleague Dr. Emmanuel Ackom on a paper we are working on (with a bunch of others).
#EnergySky #SDG7 #EnergyPoverty
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Costa Samaras
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Canceling congestion pricing will lead to more emissions- more greenhouse gas emissions & more air pollutant emissions like soot- little pieces of unburnt diesel that go into your lungs & cause health problems. Kids with asthma, elderly folks with lung disease & heart problems. Shameful negligence.
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Hisham Zerriffi
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Not to make it worse but AARP (yes, the *old* people group) now has arcade games from the 80s you can play on their website. They are targeting a certain demographic and I hate it.
www.aarp.org/games/catego...
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Hisham Zerriffi
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It's always problematic to measure success in terms of inputs rather than outputs. Same issue has plagued the international "development" area forever. "We spent $X!" Yup, and what happened? "We reached Y number of beneficiaries!" But what happened?! More kids graduate? Undernourishment down?
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Prof. Kevin J. Kircher
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Climate messaging also suffers from a baselining problem. "Sure, climate change is bad and getting worse, but it'd be even worse if not for climate action!" is... pretty tough to sell. It'd be much easier if people could look around and see for themselves that things are good, or at least improving.
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Hisham Zerriffi
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"Offset Reset - Raising the Bar for Ecosystem-Based Offsets and Credits"
Check out this workshop tomorrow as part of the Society for Conservation Biology workshop if you are in Vancouver.
Thanks to Kai and Ecosphere for inviting me to participate.
#GreenSky #Offsets #Carbon
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Hisham Zerriffi
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Ideally, yes, absolutely. In reality, might need a bit of both but we'll see.
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Emily L. Hauser
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"96% of the population [of Gaza] is facing acute food insecurity at crisis level or higher." NINETY-SIX. Famine is a choice made by the powerful. Famine in Gaza is a choice made in Jerusalem and supported in Washington.
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Hisham Zerriffi
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Maybe in the abstract. But what if the ones still using gas as it winds down and gets more expensive are low income households and renters who can't afford or don't have the options to switch. Would that still be the "fair" approach. Pretty good chance that is exactly what will happen.
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Hisham Zerriffi
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Unless my bioproducts friends put them all out of business. :)
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Hisham Zerriffi
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Thanks for the insights @chrisbataille.bsky.social. I figured you were the guy to ask.
I guess the other piece of this is that even if every refinery could switch (with higher costs as a result) not all of them would be needed. Petrochemicals are only ~12% of current oil/gas production I think.
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Hisham Zerriffi
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Hate to randomly tag you into a thread @chrisbataille.bsky.social but any insight into thread above? Can refineries actually operate just to produce petrochemicals? Or will we run into problems as fossil industry winds down energy side but petrochemical demand remains high?
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Hisham Zerriffi
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Petrochemicals having higher margins may be true for refineries but doesn't solve the problem. I don't think (someone please correct me) you can run a refinery to just produce chemicals. I.e. you might need that other low margin stuff to just run the plant while it makes up the bulk of the product.
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Hisham Zerriffi
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It seems like a bit of overkill to take my wife out every time an author I like puts out a new book, but sure, sounds good. I mean @premeemohamed.com has a new book every 2.5 weeks it seems so we'll be eating well.
Oh, you mean if they're an author. Harrumph.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie
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Finally!
I wrote about this case a few months ago--worth noting that the majority-Black town of Newbern stopped holding elections altogether riiight around the time the Voting Rights Act said no, really, you can't keep Black folks from participating in elections
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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Hisham Zerriffi
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That me (at least the last 2). Just off by 10 years on the timing.
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Hisham Zerriffi
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(3) If demand doesn't go away for petrochemicals and the bioeconomy doesn't manage to produce widespread replacements, then what? Or maybe this is not an issue. Maybe a slimmed down fossil fuel industry just chugs along with limited energy demand and dedicated to producing plastics and chemicals?
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Hisham Zerriffi
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(2) Seems like a few possibilities for petrochemicals in a post-fossil fuel era: 1) Drastic reduction in petrochemicals because system can't run on that alone or causes prices to jump (not a bad thing of course) 2) Replacement of fossil with other feedstocks (e.g. biomass). Oh boy. Can of worms.
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Hisham Zerriffi
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Something I've been pondering. Assume: a) Oil/Gas demand for energy (e.g. transport, heat) goes down but... b) Petrochemical demand (plastics, etc.) continues to grow Can the current petrochemical industry survive? Can you even run the fossil industry just on that? I doubt it. Then what? (1)
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Hisham Zerriffi
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There's a lot of infrastructure tied up in the fossil energy system and lots of interesting and tricky issues of what happens during the transition. Like, what happens to the gas grid as gas demand drops. 👇🏼
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Hisham Zerriffi
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Interesting paper. I notice you talk about H in the pipelines as alt to decommissioning the gas network and how that is problematic. Here the other alternative promoted by the gas company is "renewable" natural gas (RNG). Has its own set of issues but they're even promoting it on the buses.
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