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

There have been protests outside Tesla showrooms every weekend.

It’s been very effective at deterring Tesla sales

Taxes tend to be really hard to pass thanks to Prop. 13

For what it is worth, utility-scale batteries have been the next step in added storage capacity after pumped hydroelectric is built out

Always been about states right to enforce slavery. Nothing else.

Sure, but the context is that the US dedicates almost half its corn crop to ethanol that’s blended with gasoline. Vehicle electrification + solar panels will free up a huge amount of agricultural land.

Yep. Call your rep and senators and tell them how mad you are about it.

They’re choosing people who are in the Nazi group chat and also did an internship at one of Musk’s companies.

No senior folks because more senior people won’t break the law because their boss says so.

It’s not so much “obstructions” as that it requires both earned expertise and hard work to create stuff.

Destruction is always fast and easy. Creating takes real effort

What we do in the present and future is a human decision. How bad it gets is up to us still, not something locked in by physics

We are past two important points:

• we passed the point where you would not be able to tell the difference something like 30 years ago
• we passed the point where we likely locked in 1.5°C of warming quite recently. That’s roughly where you walk into a minefield of risking major ecosystems with each additional bit of warming, and the stretch goal that small island nations wanted because it might have left them habitable.

Importantly neither point is one where we expect civilization to suddenly end.

From what I see on social media, they had largely not written this year’s report yet