It’s not just cancer; its a very quantifiable death count

Yes, been a net fossil fuel exporter for a while.

So far as I can tell, no.

There really is about to be a major supply chain interruption

Fuels in the US are highly regional

Context for those who dont know it:

The absence of sparrows, which traditionally kept locust populations in check, allowed swarms to ravage fields of grain and rice. The resulting agricultural failures, compounded by misguided policies of the Great Leap Forward, triggered a severe famine from 1958 to 1962. The death toll from starvation during this period reached 20 to 30 million people

Yeah, I have an older model of that sitting around from before I replaced my main stove.

A large part of what they do is research. Taking away a couple billion a year that the government spends on that at Harvard is a big deal, even if the institution can ultimately survive it

That’s two of the big three sources of household emissions. There’s a third one though: which is heating and cooling.

I’d look at getting those off of fossil fuels next, and doing what you can to get electricity from renewables.

That’s the top 10% in the United States. They’re talking about the top 10% in the world.

Only when they can performatively blow smoke in people’s faces. You can’t do that with a hot water heater.

All you have to do is click through to the lawsuit they link

STATE OF NEW YORK; COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS; STATE OF ARIZONA; STATE OF CALIFORNIA; STATE OF COLORADO; STATE OF CONNECTICUT; STATE OF DELAWARE; DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; STATE OF ILLINOIS; STATE OF MAINE; STATE OF MARYLAND; THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN; STATE OF MINNESOTA; STATE OF NEW JERSEY; STATE OF NEW MEXICO; STATE OF OREGON; STATE OF RHODE ISLAND; and STATE OF WASHINGTON

In short, most of the ones with a Democrat as Attorney General

The concerns are big enough that Waltz is being shunted off to the UN instead of being allowed to stay where he is.

Signal makes it believable by providing source code and reproducible builds. It doesn’t rule out the possibility that they’ve done something clever with the random number generator, or have the app store you use give you a compromised app, or provide any protection against endpoint compromise, but it’s about as good as you can get.

Third party apps derived from theirs, which explicitly promise to log all your messages to a server somewhere, like TeleMessage, are, for obvious reasons, far less trustworthy.

Yes, but the stations in wealthier areas have enough donations that they’ll likely stay alive. Just poor rural areas will lose public broadcasting

No, it’s being done under the Congressional Review Act, which isn’t subject to supermajority rules.

Even more to the point: every time we shutter a coal-fired power plant, the miscarriage rate downwind from it falls.

Most “pro-life” sentiment is about having an excuse to vote for racists, not actually trying to do anything to protect fetuses.

You’re welcome. I try to provide global coverage, but both the search tools and my personal network tend to be a bit US-focused.

The harm is the point — they see people who are harmed by this as unfit, and deserving of the harm.

And that’s how it starts. You add enough wind and solar that they can sometimes provide more electricity than people use. Curtailment orders keep them from causing a problem, but that means wasting otherwise free electricity. So people start installing utility-scale batteries, which soak up that excess, and release it during the morning and evening peaks in net demand. You install even more wind and solar, and people do even more batteries, displacing routine overnight fossil fuel use. Even more wind and solar, and it starts making sense to install low-efficiency long-duration storage, and fossil fuel use disappears completely and permanently.

Weekends are peak car shopping time. It’s not impossible to buy a Tesla, but a lot fewer people are, and the company has been forced to sharply lower prices