Written by Gavin Schmidt whose career has been defined by heading one of the long-term temperature measurement projects

Edit: auto-correct gave me something other than “measurement” so fixed it.

It’s probably some years off; there’s something of a roadmap on how to do it, but crossbreeding it in takes quite a few years, and something like CRISPR usually means a lot of testing of the engineered variety.

It’s better to make that clear before people build houses, and conditions can change so that places which were previously not too high a risk are now high-risk.

They’re probably more afraid that Trump will burn the company down.

Yes, it’s just some colors. If you can’t handle a picture with some colors, you’ve got a problem.

I didn’t find either group on social media. Real groups have some other way to reach them.

Pick an activity. I’m into the outdoors, so looked at local Sierra Club chapters and cycling clubs. Joined a couple. Met a lot of people.

Haven’t done it using an app. Pick an activity. Find a club that does it. Meet in person

That and bitcoin mining

There are two different parts to that:

1. What was the ignition source, which is currently unknown
2. What caused it to go from a tiny fire to a huge fire very quickly, which is the result of having a couple of fairly wet years, followed by a very dry year, combined with hot dry winds. A warming world is in part responsible for those conditions.

Only way to find those people is to get out and interact though

Some level of socializing is important though; you end up with a not-very-functional society without it

It’s within the range where a lot of people understand it. The goal when interacting with a straight-up denier is not usually to convince them — it’s to give space for the people watching the conversation to reject them.

They’ve been running left-of-center op-eds on a regular basis for years. The op-ed pages aren’t the top problem. It’s the rest of the ecosystem around them, which means that:

• most people don’t access trustworthy news in the first place
• equal consideration is given to meaningful content like this and utter lies
• important stories about right-wing malfeasance don’t get repeated again and again and again until they sink in

You’re thinking of SO2 emissions from before the new low-sulfur fuel standard went into effect a few years back. Shipping is only a few percent of greenhouse gas emissions.

Actual emissions by sector:

Remember here: shipping is only part of transportation

I usually send them this

There’s a blog post from Meta saying that they’re going to limit distribution of “poltical” content on threads

Their ads policy considers any discussion of climate to be political, so I’d expect the same elsewhere

That depends on whether the virus starts spreading human-to-human with each infected person infecting more than one other person.

If it does not, then things look like the SARS outbreak in 2002-2004, where a few people get sick, and a few people die.

If it starts spreading with R₀ > 1, then pretty much everybody gets it, and a significant number die.

We could reduce the risk of the latter with measures like:

• Actively test all dairy herds
• Vaccinate dairy workers, and regularly test them for infection
• Quarantine those who are infected
• Ban the sale of unpasteurized milk and crack down on existing black-market distribution of it

However, it seems really unlikely that we’ll actually do so.

More, but not enough so. There are fossil fuel industry shills who are also Labor MPs

It’s not actually subject to a filibuster under Senate rules. Still, there’s a decent chance that a handful of Republicans aren’t willing to go along with overturning this, which is all it takes to keep the ban in place.