Europe Is Burning
Europe is facing an extreme heatwave and massive fires.
Climate change is fucking Europe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GOkq6_yiuE
Tag: climate change
The Genius Trap of “What if the Wind Doesn’t Blow?”
The Genius Trap of “What if the Wind Doesn’t Blow?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIAwR4z7qdc
The Miracles (and Maddening Politics) of the Clean Energy Revolution | The Ezra Klein Show
Green energy technology got better faster than most people expected. All new energy demand is now being met by growth in renewables.
However, the damage of climate change appears to be bad.
We would have been even further ahead in renewables if Reagen hadn’t ripped up Carter’s green energy investments.
China is the world’s biggest driver of electric tech. In 2025, in China and India, fossil fuel generation fell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogAZS7_RhhA
Disarming Climate Change Denial Tropes (Featuring Peter Hadfield aka Potholer54)
Human-caused climate change has been studied for many decades, and the common sense alternative explanations have already been studied and don’t explain the warming.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHzO2t1-y9M
Why I fear for the future of mankind
Limiting climate change is about facing some pain now to prevent greater pains later.
One reason people are so against limiting climate change is because some proponents of limiting climate change underplayed the serious costliness of dealing with climate change, so people felt like they were being lied to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBHSmwxgLfQ
Coal is Extremely Dumb
Compared to the alternatives, coal is worse for air pollution, worse for ocean pollution, worse for global warming, uses more water, is less efficient, and costs more. Coal was a competitive source of energy before we had modern gas plants.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfvBx4D0Cms
Trump orders Pentagon to invest in ‘beautiful, clean’ coal power
“In the executive order, Trump directs the Department of War to enter into agreements to purchase electricity from coal plants to power military operations.”
Bad for the environment, bad for the economy, bad for the military.
Coal is not just bad for global warming, but adds to regular air pollution that kills.
We should use energy that is most efficient to use, not that the president forces people to use, with the exception of protecting the environment.
The military should use whichever energy source best serves its purpose, not the energy source that Trump likes for confused/incompetent purposes, or political purposes.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-orders-pentagon-invest-beautiful-233907955.html
Questions About EVs? I Have Answers.
Even when comparing an electric vehicle getting electricity from a gas power plant to a gas vehicle, electric vehicles are still more carbon friendly because a car’s engine is less efficient at generating power than a gas power plant, and because a lot of carbon is used to transport gasoline. And, as electric grids use more and more low-carbon sources, the electric cars have an even greater carbon advantage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp5KF2IhUtY
Unfortunately, global warming has been coded as a liberal issue. The demographic crisis has been coded as a conservative issue. But neither of them them should have partisan or ideological coding.
A parallel between the demographic crisis and global warming is that for each, one side of the partisan divide largely doesn’t think it’s a problem at all. And for each side, the deniers are straight up wrong. Human caused global warming is essentially a fact. Declining demographics and the problems it causes are simply true. Being in denial of either of these is not a difference of opinion, but being wrong about the ample and sufficient evidence. Disagreeing about what to do about these problems once they are recognized is legitimate and complicated, so is disagreeing about some of the consequences, but, denying them as problems is going against reality.
Unfortunately, global warming has been coded as a liberal issue. The demographic crisis has been coded as a conservative issue. But neither of them them should have partisan or ideological coding. They are both real problems that are happening. The only disagreement should be what to do about these problems, not whether they are severe problems with difficult consequences, because that is in the realm of fact.
Trump quits pivotal 1992 climate treaty, in massive hit to global warming effort
“The 1992 UNFCCC serves as the international structure for efforts by 198 countries to slow the rate of rising climate pollution. It has universal participation. The U.S. was the first industrialized nation to join the treaty following its ratification under former President George H.W. Bush — and it will be the only nation ever to leave it.
The move marks an intensifying effort by Trump to topple climate efforts compared to his first term, when he decided against quitting the treaty.
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Since taking office for a second time a year ago, the Trump administration has tried to undermine U.S. and international climate efforts by shuttering offices throughout the federal government and threatening to unleash tariffs on countries that support carbon taxes on shipping emissions.
He has overseen a wide-ranging campaign to erase regulations governing climate pollution at power plants and in cars, and his administration recruited high-profile climate contrarians to write a report that promoted misinformation about the tenets of climate science.
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The U.S. Senate ratified the U.N. framework 34 years ago, making it a rare environmental pact that was supported unanimously. That could complicate any future president’s efforts to rejoin the treaty.
Some legal experts say the Senate’s consent does not operate in perpetuity after the U.S. leaves a treaty. Others argue that if a president can unilaterally leave a treaty, a future president could rejoin it without a new vote.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/07/rubio-urges-trump-to-leave-unfccc-00487331