Favorite Rejects 2021-11-14
Our current policies "business as usual" put us on track for 2.7C of warming by 2100.
Our promises for this decade would put us on track for 2.4C.
Our long-term promises put us on track for less than 2C.
carbonbrief.org/analysis-do-co…
In other words, if we keep our promises, the world will not be destroyed by climate change in any meaningful sense of the term!
That's good.
Inflation is happening everywhere because we all consume a fair amount of globally traded products, but these @jasonfurman charts make it hard to doubt there are also some US-specific factors at work.
It’s fascinating to me that journalists who pretended to believe Republicans when they pretended to be very interested in document retention policies during the 2016 campaign have so rarely bothered to even feign interest in Trump’s conduct on this front.
Acyn @Acyn
"tThere is no reason for any urban street in America to have four lanes. It cannot be justified"
Jeff Speck - Walkable City Rules
Inspired: What would really help Biden would be sharply tighter policy from the ECB and BOJ to reduce global commodity prices without slowing American domestic demand.
Conor Sen @conorsen
When you think about it, this would probably be the most effective way for central banks to be useful on climate change.
A million dollar condo would be cheaper than anything on the market right now in Palo Alto, by far.
Jordan Grimes 🚰 @cafedujord
The fact that literally no high-profile tennis commentator has dared to ask #WhereIsPengShuai or to even speak about it after her recent disappearance tells you all you need to know about the importance of the Chinese tennis market.
Remember, anti-housing politics is how "socialist" zoomers convince themselves to become conservative boomers
Why you shouldn't put too much faith in issue polling:
Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur
I think it is genuinely damaging to America to let trade groups like the AMA pose as if the key to “health equity” is using avant-garde language rather than addressing actual barriers to access in which the AMA is often a key bad actor.
The AMA lobbies against Medicare for All, against strong versions of a public option, and against regulatory reforms that would help more patients get treatment.
It’s a trade association whose goal is to enrich doctors.
You can’t begrudge doctors their right to have a self-interested trade association, but the ease with which language-centered social justice efforts are coopted by malign actors is a deep structural problem with the entire approach not a random failing.
@pkedrosky I think there's a fair argument that solar customers who still have access to the grid should contribute to the upkeep of the grid. But what that contribution amount is a huge messy question I don't have an answer to.
I brought this up one time in Helsinki and can confirm it did not go over well. https://t.co/DoRmxDHCHb
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