neanderthal

If we don't start turning things around rapidly, global warming is going to be saying to WW2: "You think YOU are the master of death, despair, suffering, and destruction? Hold my beer and watch this!"

I'm all for naming the culprits, but the leading picture is misleading and counterproductive. Sure, the steel plant is dirty, but it is better than a plant that is just as dirty or worse on the other side of the Pacific that is shipped here via dirty ship. To make matters worse, it wasn't even in the top 10 that the article later lists.

It sucks, but we have to be anal retentive about dotting our Is and crossing our Ts, or the opposition can dismiss sources like that as disingenuous and make it harder to win over fence sitters.

ETA: I live in the US and applied to the US because it was a US centric article.

I think they should get an exemption as it is literally keeping them alive.

I think a better solution would be to heavily subsidize heat pumps, resistance furnaces, and electric space heaters and make them more cost effective to use. People will switch to save money. Of course the cost of electricity has to be significantly cheaper than the oil.

There was an article posted the other day about that. I agree. Various media outlets needs to start stepping up and getting loud about it.

I love that idea. On TV weather, talk about it constantly.

I prefer climate crisis.

Basically toddlers with parents that give in to every tantrum. They relentless scream, throw things, hit things or people until they get their way.

Maybe we should all go coal rolling so the entire state is just ocean? Louisiana can't be a state if nobody lives there.

I am joking, for the record.

I completely agree. I see another 15 minute city, NJB, and War on Cars person here.

Since we all love capitalism, I wonder if GHG and warming work like compounding in business.

A little bit might not seem like much at first, but the old chess board and rice story.

At a consistent 5% more GHG, say we get 5% more bad things in a year. Say GHG and bad things are both 100.

• Year 1 is +5 = 105
• Year 2 is +5.25. = 110.25
• Year 3 is +5.5125 = 115.7625
• ....
• Year 30 is +20.58 = 432.19

If you just added 5 per year for 30 years you just get 250. With compounding it is almost twice as bad at a mere 5% annual compounding. If you go with, monthly, daily, or continuous (e^x) compounding, it is even worse.

Speaking of capitalism, understanding compounding is they key to wealth. Once a person gets on the good side of it (assets vs debt) they just get richer. If you keep accumulating debt, you get poorer and poorer. Wealth inequality without government intervention is just math. Hard work, super intelligence, etc aren't as big of factors as luck and environment to have those traits or the biggest, the starting factor. Consider the prior example and run the number with a 200 starting point.

When pulled over, any interaction beyond what is required by law should be not answered or answered with something along the lines of invoking the 5th. There are a bazillion YouTube lawyers that all the say this.

If you need directions, put in something that isn't the abortion place, but has it along the way, like a national park or other tourist place, some conference, etc. Then put in the real destination when you get across the border.

At this point, now that their are viable alternatives (Renewables, Geothermal, Nuclear) and ways to drastically reduce their usage (War on Cars), oil should be a niche product for airplanes and construction vehicles. Large ocean cargo ships could be nuclear powered, although it would probably raise the cost of building the ships and the crew. As far as ships go, not everything needs to be shipped from the other side of the world.

Thanks for all the info! Sounds like they need the right incentive. If only governments had ways to nudge businesses to do or not do things...