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Prof. Bob Howarth
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Hugely instructive that industry is pushing for this liability protection for CO2 storage. They know it is dangerous.
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Prof. Bob Howarth@profbobhowarth.bsky.social |
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Professor at Cornell University, Earth system scientist, co-EiC Land-Ocean-Atmosphere Research
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Prof. Bob Howarth
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Hugely instructive that industry is pushing for this liability protection for CO2 storage. They know it is dangerous.
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Justin Mikulka
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We are poised to make the same mistakes with carbon capture storage that we made with fracking. Did you know they are passing laws in states to exempt oil and gas companies from future liability for injected CO2?
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Ketan Joshi
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Turns out anti greenwashing regulations work!
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Jan Rosenow
@janrosenow.bsky.social
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Myths around heat pumps are widespread.
Not because they are true but because they are deliberately spread by bad faith actors.
Thanks to the Economist for this article and for quoting my @carbonbrief.org heat pump myth buster.
www.economist.com/europe/2024/...
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Don Moynihan
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Honestly still in shock that the most crooked American President in history said "I need immunity" and the GOP Supreme Court said "well, it's nowhere in the constitution, but sure, why not? Whats the worst that could happen?"
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Chuck Wendig
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"With fear for our democracy, I dissent," is about as bedrock and terrifying and vital a statement as you're going to get. That's a line you spraypaint on walls, that you ink into your skin. And it's chilling that it is necessary to say at all.
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Taylor Noakes
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Canadian oil companies & lobby groups have scrubbed their websites of any and all mentions of carbon capture after Canadian govt's new "greenwashing" regulations come into effect
Latest @desmog.bsky.social
#abpoli #cdnpoli
www.desmog.com/2024/07/03/c...
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Prof. Bob Howarth
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Nice reporting on undue influence of big oil & gas on Canada's hydrogen policy. "There's a fossil fuel fox in the henhouse as Ottawa develops a clean hydrogen economy" www.nationalobserver.com/2024/07/03/i... via @NatObserver
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Justin Mikulka
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It reads: "without methane controls, the world can’t limit temperature increases, which then dampens the prospects for natural gas usage; methane is a byproduct of the fuel that has economic value if recaptured." Methane is not a byproduct of natural gas. It is natural gas.
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Will Yeates
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther
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I am one of the people who thinks the benefits of the tax credits in the IRA have been way overhyped, but I realized just now that the law may actually save climate policymaking in the US by explicitly defining CO2 as a pollutant that the EPA can regulate under the Clean Air Act.
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Prof. Bob Howarth
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And wherever possible we can move to ground-source heat pumps for air-conditioning, which require far less electricity.
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Prof. Kevin J. Kircher
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We can stop this by quickly cutting greenhouse gas pollution, especially of fast-acting climate pollutants like methane, aka natural gas. We can invest in the grid, making sure infrastructure can handle demand spikes from air conditioning.
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Prof. Bob Howarth
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I suggest we let the Supreme Court decide whether or not geoengineering will be a climate salvation or a global disaster. They are so confident in their views and knowledge.
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Costa Samaras
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Biden leaned into climate & environmental justice, & delivered in ways that would’ve been unimaginable a decade ago. It’s a huge part of the Admin priorities & accomplishments- b/c it’s important! We always need to push for more, forever. But if the climate coalition shrugs “meh”, we aren’t serious.
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Hyperlexic
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I’ve been dismissive of batteries for trains but this dual mode approach makes sense.
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Truth Axe
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Idk if I'm stating the obvious, but justices never write/speak like this. She's telling the world this is a five-alarm fire and the coup is on.
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Dr Seán DOOLAN
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I can well imagine this. I've seen total hallucinations by AI making up papers by real authors in diverse fields.
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Prof. Bob Howarth
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Just came across this report from April that nicely summarizes many reasons NOT to use hydrogen for heating in homes. H2 mixed with methane increases explosion risk & greatly increases methane leaks.
ecostandard.org/wp-content/u...
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Mallory Harris
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Stanford is very aware of that reputational damage, too. To help repair the harm they've done the School of Sustainability's rep by taking fossil fuel money, they recently hired a PR firm....that also does greenwashing for oil and gas companies.
amp.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...
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Gavin Schmidt
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This is quite poor, and morally vapid. This report essentially claims there are no values underlying a school of sustainability (!!!) that would preclude acceptance of money from effectively any source (regardless how unaligned the corporate donor's values are with the mission of the school).
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Phil McKenna
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Whatever you make of Biden and his debate performance, I can't think of a more stark difference on any issue between two candidates than climate change in this election. Thank you Living on Earth for having me on to talk climate, politics (and my golf game). www.loe.org/shows/shows....
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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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Jesse D. Jenkins
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This will create utter chaos in the courts, as no one knows what the rules are now. There are more than 100 federal court decisions based on the 1984 Chevron v NRDC precedent SCOTUS just overturned. It's the most cited case in the whole field of administrative law.
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John Schwartz
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The biggest disaster of the last 24 hours is actually the Supreme Court ruling that overturns 40 years of deference to the expertise of regulators in cases about pollution, drug safety, food safety, climate change — you name it, the Court just gelded it. Even if Biden is reelected, we're weakened.
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Doug Gordon
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The "city of the future" looks a lot like Utrecht, with frequent trains, the world's greatest bicycle parking garage and smart signals that give cyclists extra time to keep going when it's raining. Utrecht, remarkably, is 600 years old and a lot more advanced than any city in the US.
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Sheepie
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Congratulations, you've *finally* cottoned on to the entire point of the nuclear push.
It's a purely ideological attempt to slow down or stop the rollout of renewables. It's not about positive belief in nuclear, cheaper electricity, or any of that. #AusPol
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Prof. Kevin J. Kircher
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💯
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Patrick Canning
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Bombshell reporting on how the LNG industry bends government to its will...
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Prof. Bob Howarth
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try this
drilled.media/news/ICF
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Prof. Bob Howarth
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ICF, a consulting company with huge ties to big oil & gas, has had too much influence on NY State energy policies through contracts with NYSERDA. Let's clean this mess up.
drilled.media/news/Multina....
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Phil McKenna
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A growing effort by the fossil fuel industry to sell natural gas as a low-carbon fuel is little more than greenwashing, according to a new report by climate advocacy organizations. insideclimatenews.org/news/2506202...
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Scott
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Oilfield Witness
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“A simplistic shift toward company-led reporting without a critical tightening of existing regulations risks further underestimating Australia’s coal mine methane, and undermines efforts to actually reduce real emissions," Self reporting of methane in the US is a disaster. Not a model to follow.
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Justin Mikulka
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Now that Google serves me up news from the past, I get to see who deluded we were in 2007. "If one really tightens emissions, the amount of methane in the atmosphere 10 years from now could be less than it is today," Rowland said.
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Prof. Bob Howarth
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Very sad news: George Woodwell passed on June 18. One of the great environmental scientists of our times, he was critical to my career, starting 51 yrs ago when I studied under him as an undergrad. I later worked for George for many yrs after getting my PhD
www.woodwellclimate.org/staff/george...
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John Kostyack
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"LNG exporters from around the world are building new terminals in the hope of capturing market share in Europe. But that market is shrinking."
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Justin Mikulka
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“There are significant risks that LNG projects will end up as stranded assets if the EU expands its import capacity,” the report warned. The disconnect between investments in LNG and expected LNG demand is rather large.
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Justin Mikulka
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Is this an industry that appear serious about dealing with the current abandoned and leaking well issue?
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Eileen Clancy
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Not only deaths. It's now incontrovertible that air pollution is a key cause of dementia.
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Prof. Bob Howarth
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Nope!
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Jan Rosenow
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Anti-electricity cartoon from 1889. No matter how good an idea comes along, there will always be somebody opposed. Today it is renewable energy, electric vehicles and heat pumps. Good news is that innovation often proves the tech doubters wrong.
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Prof. Bob Howarth
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Hang in there. You provide a model to all of us to follow.
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Katharine Hayhoe
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From the comments I receive (see below for just a small sample from last week), you can see how this could plausibly be the case - many of whom are then shocked and indignant to be blocked.
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Justin Mikulka
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Batteries have replaced 50% of California's gas power compared to a year ago. "Last year, battery deployment in the energy sector increased by more than 130 per cent year over year" Storage replaced fossil fuels. And it is coming on fast and getting cheaper.
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Prof. Bob Howarth
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Offensive. And should be illegal. Boycotted for sure.
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Prof. Bob Howarth
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I wish my friends & others in Miami well! But let's remember this risk now is so high because of decades of ignoring climate science.
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Katharine Hayhoe
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N2O is responsible for 6% of human-caused warming. A new budget analysis finds that: * the EU has reduced its emissions 31 % * those of emerging economies have grown; China is #1 now * concentrations have exceeded all scenario projections, underscoring the importance of reducing N2O!
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Justin Mikulka
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Oil markets typically make big moves on very small changes in supply and demand. This sort of structural change in the markets is something never seen before.
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Justin Mikulka
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Interesting from the study mentioned and linked in this Guardian article. "The pollutants can therefore be transported for long distances, such that in the United States, a majority of early deaths due to power plant air pollution occur after the pollution has crossed state lines."
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