People are rightly livid with the gas and electric utilities here in California, but the state is doing better than other states on renewables. More than half the grid is solar during the day. Large installations of batteries are in use and investments in offshore wind are expanding.
From: Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> On Behalf Of cody dooderson Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2024 4:27 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Bad news about the climate I am convinced that in the next 30 years, there will be some massive geo-engineering projects to reverse the course of climate change. We can only hope that they will be well thought out. Harvard has a geoengineering program with a nice web page. I check it from time to time and it helps me feel a bit more optimistic about the future. _ Cody Smith _ c...@simtable.com<mailto:c...@simtable.com> On Sat, Jan 27, 2024 at 3:11 PM Jochen Fromm <j...@cas-group.net<mailto:j...@cas-group.net>> wrote: I am not a big fan of Sabine. Her book "Lost in math" is too pessimistic and too negative for me. She earns money from her YouTube video channel. The more sensational the content, the more clicks. That being said I agree that climate change is one of the biggest problems, and the outlook is not good. If we don't act now temperatures will rise inevitably, and there is a real possibility our economies will collapse. But if we prohibit all fossil fuels now our economies will collapse too, because they depend on it. Airplanes, ships, trucks, cars, heatings in our homes, plastic products,... everything is based on fossil fuels. What our leaders do is take they planes and private jets to fly to climate conferences and economic forums where they agree on lofty goals but when they return it is business as usual. What we can do is voting for better politics - besides getting an emission free car, using electric trains and public transport, switching to sustainable energy, using less plastic, etc. Eventually it will also mean less travelling by plane and cruise ships. This means no longer vacation in exotic places - but imagine how much better the air in our cities would be if the majority of cars are emission free. -J. -------- Original message -------- From: Russ Abbott <russ.abb...@gmail.com<mailto:russ.abb...@gmail.com>> Date: 1/27/24 10:01 PM (GMT+01:00) To: ICE - debora shuger <shu...@gmail.com<mailto:shu...@gmail.com>>, Rob Watson <rnwat...@humnet.ucla.edu<mailto:rnwat...@humnet.ucla.edu>>, Richard Abbott <richard.e.abb...@gmail.com<mailto:richard.e.abb...@gmail.com>>, "Michael, Maria, and Luna Abbott-Whitley/Penado" <mabbottwhit...@gmail.com<mailto:mabbottwhit...@gmail.com>>, Danielle Abbott-Whitley <dlw0...@gmail.com<mailto:dlw0...@gmail.com>>, "Whitley, Julian" <jln.whit...@gmail.com<mailto:jln.whit...@gmail.com>>, Dale Shuger <shuger02...@yahoo.com<mailto:shuger02...@yahoo.com>>, The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com<mailto:friam@redfish.com>> Subject: [FRIAM] Bad news about the climate I apologize for this relatively mass email. It was prompted by a video<https://youtu.be/4S9sDyooxf4?si=_A767WzYTxriYGdl> by Sabine Hossenfelder, Sabine is a theoretical physicist who has spent much of her recent life as a popular science writer and video maker. See her Wikipedia page<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabine_Hossenfelder>. The video linked to above talks about climate models. The bottom line is that it appears that most of the current models have underestimated how quickly earth will warm. The consequences are frightening. -- Russ Abbott Professor Emeritus, Computer Science California State University, Los Angeles -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom https://bit.ly/virtualfriam to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/
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