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Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 23h

I feel like every article I read about Trump admin energy policy lately is like “on the one hand, actual people are horrified and suffering. On the other hand, a literal lump of coal called this a ‘good move.’”

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 4d

Sure words evolve, but this particular terminology has tended to exalt the US political system as the way to be “good,” so shedding the positive label when the underlying thing produces bad outcomes and pinning those outcomes on someone else isn’t great

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 4d

I’m not lolol (I was actually hate-rooting for Miami out of ND loyalty here) but I still think it was BS!

We are all aboard the Indiana train now toot toot

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 5d

Another slightly less meaningless thing I’m mad about is referring to the US as “third world.” third world doesnt mean poor and shitty! It means unaligned with US or Soviet powers!! This is what “first world” politics has produced!!!

Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 5d

I know refs treat Hail Marys differently but this really does seem like pass interference.

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 5d

Replays in the end zone from the final play

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 5d

Ok this is so far down the list of important but it upsets me that I literally can’t find any evidence that Carson Beck (who graduated from UGA!!! But is a redshirt senior at miami!!!) is a degree-seeking student

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 5d

This reminds me of the "kick this soccer ball around to generate power in poor places" type thing -- the attitude that this is charity and people should take what they can get (that happens to be my zany idea)

Dialogues on Climate Change @dialoguescc.bsky.social · 8d

Carbon markets have no future in a (net) zero-emissions world

New article in @dialoguescc.bsky.social by @gruberte.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 8d

Ok but at this point it just feels targeted

My solar panels (and basically only my solar panels) covered in snow

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 13d

It has been a truly upsetting revelation how many people who I thought cared about disinformation, advocating for science, etc just flipped in 0.002 microseconds after a tech company programmed a chatbot to tell them how great their questions are

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 15d

indeed
ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Civil Engineering’s Internal Skepticism on Climate Change | Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice | Vol 144, No 3

Forum papers are thought-provoking opinion pieces or essays founded in fact, sometimes containing speculation, on a civil engineering topic of general interest and relevance to the readership of the j...

ascelibrary.org

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 15d

“Things I’ve known but haven’t previously seen a bunch of philosophers fight about” for 200, Alex

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 15d

I think the greatest gift that being part of our Ethics Initiative this year has given me is the scholarly framework to talk about how failing to phase out fossil fuels is ethically wrong. We can talk feasibility til our ears bleed but there’s an obvious moral aspect that doesn’t need cost analyses

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 17d

I do think the “meet people where they’re at” advice has been twisted into “people are stupid” in a lot of political settings and it’s just…not true?

Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 18d

I think that advice is extremely short-sighted. Try harnessing anger at fossil billionaires after collaborating with and enabling them. Try telling people you'll protect public health after supporting policies that let fossil fuel companies poison the air and water in disadvantaged communities.

Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 18d

I think that advice is extremely short-sighted. Try harnessing anger at fossil billionaires after collaborating with and enabling them. Try telling people you'll protect public health after supporting policies that let fossil fuel companies poison the air and water in disadvantaged communities.

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 18d

This is an extremely based cold calling approach, incredible

I also love that one could check the SSA data for the year the students were born to tailor it

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 20d

That’s a neat idea — basically a bracket that would let you pass the linesets through the window?

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 20d

Intriguing! Still need to be able to access an outdoor horizontal surface for this one though, right?

Acknowledging my gradient was cheap ($2k) it remains a very neat solution for my weird use case. Glad to see more options for more use cases!

Lew Daly @lewdaly.bsky.social · 21d

Larger point: 45Q is arguably the most perverse energy subsidy from a climate pespective. Govt paying corporations to capture and store CO2, instead of actually reducing emissions, means incentivizing more extraction and combustion of fossil fuels because more emissions means more public $.

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 23d

Honestly facts

I was thinking more popular media on that front but yes lol

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 23d

The “AI will revolutionize academia because it can summarize articles” argument is so funny because this is what an abstract is for??

What it is good at is circumventing paywalls

David Weiskopf believes in you @dave.bzky.team · 23d

If you are working towards a vision of shared prosperity in a clean energy future and your principal adversaries are unions, environmentalists, and community-based justice orgs, consider if just maybe it might be possible that you haven't unlocked secret knowledge they are all too dumb to understand

Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 24d

2. What he says about climate is patently false (more on that later) but to the extent he's saying "politicians shouldn't do the right thing unless it's popular", I'd note only that that is a toddlers view of leadership. If the popular kids are mean, should you be mean?

New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 26d

“The mind-set shift needed here is to acknowledge that while climate change is real and harmful, the utility of fossil fuels is not something the oil and gas industry tricked the public into,” Matthew Yglesias writes.

Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Do. Why Don’t Democrats?

Liberals should reconcile with America’s oil and gas industry.

nyti.ms

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 27d

But markets!!!

(All this is making my survey of people who live by many of the plants affected by this trend into more of an experiment than I’d expected…)

Joel B. Eisen @joeleisen.bsky.social · 28d

States' rights? States are in charge of deciding what power plants we have on the grid - until the GOP in Congress decides they're not. All to prop up the losing hand of coal.

E&E News: House approves bill to keep coal plants on the grid

The legislation would give federal regulators new authority to delay power plant retirements in the name of grid reliability.

subscriber.politicopro.com

Joel B. Eisen @joeleisen.bsky.social · 28d

States' rights? States are in charge of deciding what power plants we have on the grid - until the GOP in Congress decides they're not. All to prop up the losing hand of coal.

E&E News: House approves bill to keep coal plants on the grid

The legislation would give federal regulators new authority to delay power plant retirements in the name of grid reliability.

subscriber.politicopro.com

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 28d

and notably this is not the same argument as "carbon taxes are regressive," which is also true but easier to design away

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 28d

i'm regularly surprised by the pushback i get on the idea that a carbon tax isn't useful for full decarbonization. like it seems on its face obvious that taxes become less effective at changing behavior as wealth gets bigger, so you push out non-luxury stuff way before luxury stuff.

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 28d

it's not actually funny but it's kind of funny that I wrote a thing for my school paper (if I remember correctly) about larry summers being shitty...

... WHEN I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL

None of this was unclear! Social media didn't even exist, I wasn't a radio person, and I *still* knew that!!

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · Dec 14

No love lost for Nature as a publisher (independent of this work) but omg how is this not in Nature Italy (yes that’s a thing)

Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · Dec 14

Volcanic activity may have worsened the spread of the Black Death in medieval Europe. A study in Communications Earth & Environment suggests that climatic cooling and famine prompted Italian city-states to import grain from the Black Sea, potentially carrying the plague bacterium. 🏺 ⚒️ 🧪

Climate-driven changes in Mediterranean grain trade mitigated famine but introduced the Black Death to medieval Europe - Communications Earth & Environment

Post-volcanic climate downtown in southern Europe around 1345–1347 CE caused widespread famine, leading to Italian maritime republics importing grain from the Black Sea region and introducing fleas carrying the plague bacterium that caused the Black Death, according to tree ring analysis and documentary sources.

go.nature.com

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