Yeah, CEO of Exxon Grandma.
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Letting oil barons, war mongers, and other billionaire scum off some really big hooks with that "entirely" part..
She looks like she could be an oil baronness
I'd wager Grandma is symbolic of the generation to which most of those barons, mongers, and billionaires belong.
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You extracted billions of years of stored energy from the ground and set it on fire over 50 years. Did you really think there weren’t any consequences?
They didn't care. They got to live through the benefits and not have to worry about the consequences. As far as the climate is concerned, they were the party generation, and we're the hangover generation.
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Take that, entire-capitalist-system-built-on-burning fossil-fuels-grandma.
Let's eat grandma!
Yes
The San Francisco Bay Area is having the hottest and longest heat wave of the year right now. I hate it. October shouldn't be so hot. 90% of residences in SF don't even have AC because it was almost never necessary 20 years ago.
99 in Berkeley right now. My house was built in like 1928 and since we rent obviously there's been no energy efficient updating of insulation or anything like that since maybe the 60s. It's like 94 inside right now. Sitting in front of multiple fans just blowing hot air at me this is the life y'all.
Pretty much the same temps for me in the south bay.
It's not much, but wearing a soaked t-shirt/tank and having a fan or two circulating the air with the dryer stuff outside has helped me a bit.
I didn't check today but it was 105 yesterday a few miles inland. I saw the HVAC dude at the food truck and he was the happiest I've ever seen him.
The good news is that PG&Es “lower” winter rates kicked in on Oct. 1 so at least we get to fuck them back a little bit.
Also increases baseline allowance, which will be super useful since my "portable" AC has been eating so much power this month.
It was supposed to end last week too...
It's cold in the baltics
Barely, going to be 17°C again this week.
It's always interesting that people are quick to talk about extreme weather changes but rarely want to address the causes. I ended up watching a video that touches on the topic. I hate Mondays.
Everyone hates Mondays and everyone loves talking about how Mondays suck! You'll never have conversations about "fixing" Mondays though. That's because Mondays are just a fact of life. There will always be a day you have to go to work. Moving the start day or shortening the work week doesn't change the fact that everyone will still dislike the day their time off ends and their work hours start. You can't "fix" Mondays.
There are also people who think other social problems are just like Mondays. Unfixable. Of course they agree it's bad! But there's just nothing that can be done.
Continuing with the analogy, even the honest attempts to fix Mondays are characterized as impractical, idle fantasies.
How about we don't schedule critical meetings to start first thing Monday morning? Even if that's the "only" time everyone can meet? And if it's really the only time everyone has available, doesn't that warrant questioning a bit?
Or what if we just start later on Mondays? And maybe we consider not offsetting it but working later on other days? 39-hour week? 36-hour week?
You just hit the nail on the head for things that bother me. People just throwing out ideas that "only partially" work. This isn't just Monday's, or climate change, but literally every fucking bit of politics. It drives me up the wall.
"Yeah but it only makes things 50% better, so I don't support it"
So we'll sit with 100% bad rather than 50% better because Jim in Arizona thinks we need to only have perfect solutions, and that anything that only makes things better aren't worth investigating. Better transit, electric cars, heat pumps, hydrogen trains, gun control, sex education, free lunches? All horrible things to Jim because "they don't solve the problem". No, they just make it much better. Maybe we could use them while we search for the perfect solution, you know slow incremental change? No, okay then fuck you too, Jim
And while I clearly call out one side, us liberals are very guilty of this too. In fact, there's already an example of that elsewhere in these comments.
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Every one of Innuendo Studio's videos are absolutely excellent.
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we're basically hoping the massive push to batteries/Solar by both China and the U.S is successful in the next decade as they are the countries with the highest KW/h usage to lay a gameplan to get neighboring countries to do the same if it proves to be fruitful.
This will not save us, we're still set to burn way too much fossil fuel even with fast EV/solar/electrification.
We. Need. To. Consume. Less.
But... but... what about infinite growth??
have you seen the sharp decline of fossil fuel based energy in some locations? The whole point in the necessary move for a battery storage in the long term is to minimize the requirement to boot up gas facilities after work hours, where peak power usage happens and solar is minimum.
The problem with global usage is poorer nations cannot afford to switch off dirty energy, and richer nations have a harsh post work hour usage. Lowering usage doesn't fix the problem that there are dozens of countries that will still continue to burn dirty till some country invests in a cleaner option.
put in perspective, even though China and the US has the most power consumption, unlike GDP, it doesn't take that many more countries after them to equate how much power they consume. So unless theres a global shutoff of power (which on its own, will have a plethora of long lasting problems if everything just shuts down), the best solution is to swap the type of energy that generates the most heat/green house gasses out.
There's a few countries with huge hydroelectric resources, which are not applicable to most of the world. Other countries have merely seen a peak and slight decline, and based on trends it will take decades for that decline to reach the levels we need tomorrow. Demand for compute from the AI tech bubble has basically destroyed all the progress we've made since the pandemic.
The problem is too much consumption. Rich nations gobble up as much as they can and poorer nations are used as their mining pits and factories to feed the endless appetite for more, and as long as this continues the world is going to continue warming.
Drag thinks we should just implement an ETS, ban cars and meat, cap rents low on poorly insulated houses, and put the defence budget into renewable energy and batteries. Easy peasy.
What if she voted for Jimmy Carter?
12°C at 4am.
I already pulled out the winter bed sheets because it was sub 10 a few days ago several times...
It's 87 right now over here. It's 10pm.
Well... It's cold here in northen Italy
287 degrees here, much warmer than expected.
But seriously, I was introduced to Canada in late October of 93. And arrived to 18"+ of snow.
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