This has been a great day for America. That's what I think, anyway. #Politics

So Trump’s businesses might be dissolved? And some think that would make it easier for the courts to dissolve other violators in the future? I don’t see any problems with that! If you can’t run a business honestly, then you can’t run a business at all, IMO! #politics

@Alfred How would you respond to the assertion: “AI is just sophisticated curve fitting.”

Dinner tonight: Slow-roasted bone-in Boston butt with Yorkshire pudding, asparagus, roasted carrots and parsnips, and homemade apple pie. Been at it since 10 AM this morning...
#Christmas dinner
#WhatchaEating?

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I think we can safely say that the 1.5 degree C limit for global warming proposed in Paris was at best aspirational. It is clear that the oil producing nations haven't made enough money yet and are too dense to understand that, at this rate, all the money in the world can't save them from their own avarice. The 1.5 number is now out of reach as a limit. We now look to 2.5, but with tipping points on the edge, even now, that goal is also unrealistic. My expectation is now 8 to 12. #ClimateChange

OH DEAR. THIS POST WAS SET TO SELF-DETONATE 💣 💥 🔥

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It takes about 2000 Joules to heat a cubic meter of air by 1 degree C. It takes roughly 4,200,000 Joules to heat a cubic meter of water by the same amount. The oceans have been masking the true effect of #GlobalWarming for 5 decades or more. They are getting fed up with it, and over the next decade we are going to feel the heat. #ClimateChange

Is anyone here dissatisfied with the Presidency of Biden? If so, why? I am curious about where the low approval for Biden is coming from heading into 2024?
#politics

Preference for Wheels (by letter)

Getting new wheels for the truck. Looking for opinions! Which do you like most? Poll in reply post...

https://wapo.st/49e42N2

Scientists are learning to communicate less modestly. This is a good thing. The situation is really bad now, and we need to motivate action.

#ClimateChange #GreenEnergy

An auto industry initiative (Open Vehicle-Grid Integration Platform (OVGIP)) to consolidate all EV vehicle batteries potential into one group that can work with grid operators for energy sharing and load balancing. #EVEconomy #GRID #solar

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/bmw-ford-and-honda-agree-to-create-chargescape-a-new-company-focused-on-optimizing-electric-vehicle-grid-services-301924860.html

The leaves on the Maple tree are starting to turn, and nights are getting darker and cooler. Time to bust out the backup heating.

Tell me what is wrong with the world without telling me that anything is wrong with the world...

I have some insight into how bad the situation we are in is. The media is doing a poor job of capturing just how desperately scientists wan† to communicate the significance of the moment we are in: Earth will be uninhabitable in 300 years, and now, I don't think there is much chance that we can turn the ship in time. We are responsible for a planetary extinction, and by the time the population comes to understand this, nothing they do will matter. #ClimateChange #GreenEnergy

#Geothermal has tremendous potential to mitigate #Climatechange. Why burn something to make heat, when the heat is right beneath us.Oil companies know how to go get it. They have to be our allies going forward.

https://www.wired.com/story/where-to-find-the-energy-to-save-the-world-geothermal-texas/

Don Lemon has been fired at CNN, then Tucker is bounced... where does the axe fall next?

From WaPo: Tucker and Fox have "parted ways" #politics

If BBC, CBC, PBS, and NPR all really left Twitter, rather than “paused all activities”, I think Twitter would collapse along the lines of AOL and Yahoo! in a Texas second.