That’s good to hear.

Here in the US, I haven’t seen a sign or heard a word from or about Stein this year. None. Also true in previous years. How’s a GP going to get grown if it doesn’t get a voice in and on the news? If the crazy right wasn’t enough, I also notice that the Dems spent some time and money trying to put her down.

Looking at the GP platform, it seems solid. But, in the US, my position has NO representation in the US. If there is a GP in the US, it’s been very muted. Stein is just a stale placeholder with no voice. That’s not leadership. Every election for DECADES I’ve heard, “oh, not this time. We have to win it back” or “we have to hold on to it”. OK, so when should we vote GP then? Screw that argument. We need another party, and there’s only one way to get there. And that’s quality, visable, vocal, energetic, leadership.

I looked at Canada’s GP yesterday. They at least have -some- kind of org. in most provinces. IIUC, the GP has two seats in their congress. They got a million votes in 2019. That’s better than nothing.

What’s ‘miles short’ converted to Gigatons?

Derange the home stove, the Ford, or the range?

“The change would force the companies to prioritize the government’s social and economic objectives over corporate profits.”

That starts to sound good. What are those objectives?

I noticed in that video how Al Gore looked as he listened. Sagan died in 1996. Gore released his documentary ‘An Inconvenient Truth’, 18 years ago in 2006. I believe Sagan would not have been surprised at the film’s reception, nor surprised by how little impact it has had on effective response to the threats it outlined. You can lead a horse to water…

The wonderful thing about burying CO2 is that nobody can tell you didn’t. If it leaks out, nobody can tell it did. If you can get paid for it, that’s the most wonderful thing.

CO2 is like nuclear plants in that way. When Rocky Flats had a big fire in their weapons plant, and plutonium fell all over the Denver suburbs, they just didn’t tell anyone about it.

This Cat-4 started just down by the Yucatan and worked up 140mph-sustained winds in a couple of days over the Gulf of Mexico. I’m wondering how common that’s been before.

Glad to hear that! I’ve got that problem too! Sometimes it takes hours to find the way out … hours free of social media, boring or horrifying news (real or fake) … today it was the Medici family history …

US parts prices are … WOW … There was a time when there were junkyards, guess there aren’t so many as once.

Talking the talk is popular with these guys. They know it helps their image. In this case, it’s gaslighting.

On the whole, car should be lighter (-engine & parts,-muffler,-fuel tank) … depending on # batteries needed (+ holding structure + cables)(might lose the back seat). Same Transmission/drive train needs.

Oh, for sure. Heat pumps are a-comin, dear Lisa.

Oops, good catch! (I even used to live by her… will fix that, thanks!)

Totally agreed … IF you plant a tree, and let it grow, then pellitize and transport it in a green way, then burning it won’t release more hydrocarbons than it accumlated.

Fire that consumes hydrocarbon fuels and oxygen liberates CO2. So yeah. Gasoline, diesel, natural gas, wood chips, all hydrocarbon fuels. NO SUCH THING as ‘green’ wood burning.

I think NYT is correct in this sense: I haven’t heard Harris herself say much about ‘climate change’ let alone ‘global warming’.

We all get that. Candidates tend to stay away from talking about stuff that makes people feel bad because it sticks to them. But I’ve not heard her even address expanding renewables as rapidly as possible, or even heat pumps. No doubt that’s the advice she’s getting. One reason is that the cars we’re driving are a major source of CO2. Nobody’s touching that elephant.

Legislators this year already are trying to tackle the rising costs of electricity.

Considering CA’s widespread use of the now-cheapest sources of electricity, it’s more than ironic that costs to consumers are rising. Somebody needs to take a -very close- look at that.

Another question for CA: are data centers required to be carbon-neutral or else ? Will they thriving on the savings created by people driving EVs? Will their demands result in higher prices for everyone?

Because you can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time … and they’ve been at it for a very long time.

Looks like a lousy bet.

"Hydrogen can be produced by several means. Most hydrogen produced today is gray hydrogen, made from natural gas through steam methane reforming (SMR). This process accounted for 1.8% of global greenhouse gas emissions in 2021. Low-carbon hydrogen, which is made using SMR with carbon capture and storage (blue hydrogen), or through electrolysis of water using renewable power (green hydrogen), accounted for less than 1% of production. “Virtually all of the 100 million tonnes[5] of hydrogen produced each year is used in oil refining (43% in 2021) and industry (57%)”

… Wikiipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_economy

Once again, the impact of subsidized industries is accidentally underestimated.