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<p><font size="+2"><i><b>October 1, 2022</b></i></font></p>
<i>[ satire delivers truth with advertisement
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2XTGteritE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2XTGteritE</a> ] </i><br>
<b>Chevron’s commercials just got the ‘Don’t Look Up’ treatment</b><br>
What do cooing babies and frolicking elephants have to do with oil
companies? Exactly.<br>
Kate Yoder - Staff Writer - - Sep 30, 2022<br>
The fake commercial cycles through cheesy stock footage of newborn
babies, frolicking elephants, and wind-turbine-filled
mountainscapes. Meanwhile, the voiceover savagely explains that
Chevron’s products are “transforming the planet right this second
into a hellish George Miller film” — a reference to the
post-apocalyptic Mad Max movies.<br>
<br>
McKay posted the video, created by his company Hyperobject
Industries, on Twitter Thursday with the innocuous question, “Has
anyone seen this Chevron commercial?” A day later, it had already
been viewed more than 4 million times. McKay recently donated $4
million to the Climate Emergency Fund, which trains and mobilizes
climate activists, and joined its board of directors...<br>
The narrator of the fake Chevron ad makes clear that showing footage
of happy people and their families doesn’t do anything to clean up
an oil company’s emissions: “At the end of the day, we at Chevron
don’t give a single f*ck about you, your weird children, or your
ratty ass dog.”<br>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://grist.org/culture/dont-look-up-director-adam-mckay-made-a-chevron-parody-commercial/">https://grist.org/culture/dont-look-up-director-adam-mckay-made-a-chevron-parody-commercial/</a></p>
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<i>[ biting satire derived from many Chevron video commercials -
see it now 99 seconds - before it is taken down ] </i><br>
<b>Chevron Ad</b><br>
Sep 29, 2022 Nothing is more precious than life.<br>
CREDITS: <br>
<blockquote>Writer Adam McKay<br>
Voice Steven San Miguel<br>
Editor Bruce Herrman<br>
Producer Staci Roberts-Steele<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2XTGteritE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2XTGteritE</a>
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<i>[ Yoder at Grist tells us about innovative legislation]</i><br>
<b>‘It makes climate change real’: How carbon emissions got
rebranded as ‘pollution’</b><br>
California activists paved the way for defining climate change as an
air pollution problem. Now it's federal law.<br>
Kate Yoder<br>
Published Sep 29, 2022<br>
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The Inflation Reduction Act, the landmark climate legislation signed
by President Joe Biden in August, amends the 1970 Clean Air Act to
clearly identify greenhouse gas emissions as a form of air
pollution. When it comes to the law, definitions mean everything...<br>
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“People understand intuitively what pollution means — it’s something
that’s harmful that you’re introducing unnaturally into the
environment. And so this perfectly fits that definition.” To
describe greenhouse gas emissions, Hassol likes the phrase
“heat-trapping pollution,” since people don’t need special
background knowledge to comprehend it.<br>
<br>
People have deep anxieties about a poisoned environment: The
pollution of rivers, oceans, and lakes has consistently numbered
among Americans’ top 10 fears, whereas climate change didn’t make
the cut in the most recent survey. Research has shown that framing
climate change as a danger to public health increased people’s
support for taking action on emissions and made them feel more
hopeful. A paper in 2010 found that people considered the potential
health benefits of reducing emissions “particularly compelling.”
More recent research suggests that talking about air pollution
rather than climate change increases people’s support for regulating
power plant emissions, especially among Republicans. <br>
<br>
“No matter where you are on the political spectrum, Democrat,
Republican, progressive, conservative, there’s not a person out
there that doesn’t care about the health and well-being of their
children and the people they care about,” said Molly Kawahata, a
former climate advisor to the Obama White House who now advises
organizations on how to reframe the climate crisis. “Nothing is more
personal to us than our personal health.”...<br>
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This new emphasis is reflected in the language people are using,
too: Google Ngram, which tracks how frequently words are used in
books, shows a clear increase in both “climate pollution” and
“carbon pollution” over the last decade.<br>
<br>
“There has been a shift from opposing such approaches to embracing
them now because they understand that it brings more people under
the tent, and it makes the movement more powerful,” Méndez said. “It
motivates people and energizes people because it makes climate
change real.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://grist.org/health/how-carbon-emissions-got-rebranded-climate-pollution-ira/">https://grist.org/health/how-carbon-emissions-got-rebranded-climate-pollution-ira/</a>
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<i>[ Pacific Surfliner - the ocean and sands will flow and shift so
"do not build your rail track on a house of sand" ]</i><br>
<b>Track Closures</b><b><br>
</b><b>Rail Closure Due to Emergency Track Work in San Clemente </b><br>
Effective September 30 until further notice<br>
<br>
Safety concerns to the right-of-way in San Clemente have made it
necessary to suspend train service through the area. Pacific
Surfliner trains will not operate between Irvine and San Diego until
further notice. We are working with our partners to set up train
service between Oceanside and San Diego, as well as bus connections
to/from Irvine and Oceanside. We will share updates as soon as
details are available.<br>
<br>
The service suspension is effective Friday, September 30, out of an
abundance of caution to ensure the safety of our passengers and
crews. Regular service will resume once the repairs are completed. <br>
<br>
We understand that closures will result in disruptions and sincerely
apologize for any inconveniences it causes our riders. We’ll
continue to look for ways to minimize the impact of these closures
as this critical work continues. <br>
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We’ll continue to share updates here and on our Twitter account. <br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evRyjKWsVLI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evRyjKWsVLI</a><br>
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<i>[ Opinion -- why not take the train? Because the track has
washed away ]</i><br>
<b>Horrible news: between LA & San Diego has been suspended
indefinitely due to coastal erosion. </b><br>
@Amtrak<br>
@PacSurfliners<br>
The route was the 2nd busiest intercity rail corridor in the US, w/
26 daily trains & ~3M riders per year.<br>
Climate change is here, and we are totally unprepared<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://twitter.com/TallDarknJewish/status/1575923438748827727">https://twitter.com/TallDarknJewish/status/1575923438748827727</a>
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<i>[ innovation discussion ]</i><br>
<b>The extraordinary potential value of enhanced geothermal power</b><br>
A chat with Wilson Ricks about the role EGS could play in a
decarbonized system.<br>
David Roberts Sep 30 <br>
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In recent years, excitement has been growing about the potential of
geothermal energy, which draws heat from the Earth’s crust to
generate electricity. I wrote a couple of introductory pieces on it
for Vox a few years ago (one, two) and they remain some of the most
popular things I ever published there.<br>
<br>
To date, geothermal has largely been viewed as an always-on
(“baseload”) resource, like nuclear power, that needs to maximize
its running time (“capacity factor”) in order to maximize its
revenue. Basically, it has been seen as a clean substitute for coal
and nuclear power plants.<br>
<br>
However, new research from Princeton University's Zero Lab suggests
that enhanced geothermal systems (EGS), which fracture underground
rock to create their own reservoirs rather than relying on natural
ones, can play a much more dynamic and valuable role — a role more
like the one fast, flexible natural gas plants play today.<br>
<br>
In a paper published in May, researchers show how EGS plants can
store energy (for up to 100 hours or more!) and rapidly ramp their
output up or down, allowing them to act as both storage and flexible
“clean firm” generation in a decarbonized electricity system.<br>
<br>
If an EGS plant can store large amounts of energy for long periods
of time and crank up its output when it is most needed, its value
exceeds previous estimates by as much as 60 percent. And if EGS
plants are more valuable than previously recognized, a follow-up
paper from the same team shows, it could end up playing a much
larger role in a decarbonized energy system than previously
envisioned. <br>
<br>
I contacted one of the authors of both papers, PhD candidate Wilson
Ricks, to discuss what the research found, what EGS plants can and
can’t do, and the expanded role they might play in clean energy
going forward.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.volts.wtf/p/the-extraordinary-potential-value#details">https://www.volts.wtf/p/the-extraordinary-potential-value#details</a><br>
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<i>[The news archive - looking back at some of the odd in the
climate game ] </i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>October 1, 2013</b></i></font> <br>
October 1, 2013: Syndicated columnist Eugene Robinson writes:<br>
<blockquote>"Skeptics and deniers can make all the noise they want,
but a landmark new report is unequivocal: There is a 95 percent
chance that human-generated emissions of carbon dioxide and other
greenhouse gases are changing the climate in ways that court
disaster.<br>
<br>
"That's the bottom line from the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change, which Monday released the latest of its
comprehensive, every-six-years assessments of the scientific
consensus about climate change. According to the IPCC, there is
only a 1-in-20 chance that human activity is not causing dangerous
warming.<br>
<br>
"You may like those betting odds. If so, let's get together for a
friendly game of poker, and please don't forget to bring cash."<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/10/01/warm_enough_for_you_120159.html">http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/10/01/warm_enough_for_you_120159.html</a><br>
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