I'm in the doom and gloom mindset right now and could use some good new
How’d it do in real cold weather?…if you had any. Honest question, I’m considering in a colder climate
It works.
Also insulation and air sealing the house limits heat loss.
Same applies for heat and cold, so all these American homes built with matchsticks and cardboard need giant AC units.
Mine goes to -29c, my backup is resistive heat. On a 100,% carbon free grid in Quebec, I also drive a small electric hatchback entirely charged during off peak hours.
Mine froze over during a snow storm last year and I'm in frickin Arkansas
Yeah we have that problem in missouri also. I think the issue is the heatpumps made for canada are made different than the ones we get down south. Ours are crap in cold weather
The one I installed has 89% efficiency at -30c. Stays at 100% efficiency up tu -24c which we don't have for more than a handful of days per year where I live.
This. The heating seasonal performance factor (HSPF) is the measure of cold-weather heat pump performance. Most northern heat pumps have an HSPF of 10-12, while the usual for a southern US state like Arkansas would be more like 7.
We had one ice over too, but that was in severe conditions and it defrosted itself nicely. Other than that, ours have been excellent in cold (I’m in Vermont) but the cooling in the summer is really where it’s at.
No problem at all in -20C, I do have electric coils backup in my furnace but never used them. Would recommend, just get the winter specific heat pump though. Do not get gas backup it's a scam, electric coil backup if you get temps well below what's recommended for the pump.
Thank you!
What one do you have my aunts cant keep warm in 10F
Their heat pump was probably undersized.
Just one from Home Depot lol, did you aunt have electric coil backup? Something is wrong because mine works very well and I tested it to -20C with no need for backup.
Another poster answered why. Depending on where you live they build them with different ratings. So if you live up north then you have a better cold rating then we do more south
We’ve been using geothermal pumps in Sweden since the 80s. Mine has no problems in -20
It dont, my aunt has one and when its sub zero or even in the teens it cant keep up. Honestly they work great for mild winters and summers, but not for severe
I use a minisplit cold climate model and I’ve used it down to -5f no real issues. The coldest it got in my neck of the woods this year was 3 degrees f and I was able to keep my house above 73 degrees without hiccup. My house is 100 years old and not exactly a modern “sealed” and insulated home (it is insulated, but new builds are much more efficient) but does have modern windows, however not perfect.
I live in a 2200 Sq foot 1870s farmhouse, 80% of it got sprayfoamed and new windows when I did a major renovation. My heatpump does my whole house for 100-150 a month in Hydro. I used 60$ in propane this year.
After -13 ( not with windchill) the propane kicks in. SE Ontario.
The heat is exchanged with the ground. Not even that far underground its roughly the same temperature all year round.
Some places youll need to go deeper. But otherwise it just works.
I am always glad that the heat pump technology seem to kick up, I am a researcher work in refrigeration and it closely related to heat pump. Currently the field are experiment with more efficient tech and more environmentally friendly refrigerant too, hope the future of this technology would help to combat climate change in heating-cooling sector.
I like your comment for the honest thought out assessment of what’s best for you despite what activists or companies say. Give us options. We can decide
I’m hoping the economic benefit will cause people to switch who don’t even care about the biosphere.
That despite all the climate clamor will decide our future energy source. Nuke is by far the best current option but technology just keeps getting better. Cheers
I am curious about your heatpump setup.
I just went to Home Depot and got their heat pump lol. Replace my gas furnace and ac with the heat pump, total cost 7100$ after rebate. Save about little over 700$ per year.
Thanks, I will research.
Yes I did this about 15 years ago. My third house with reverse cycle is fully powered by solar most days.
The latest heat pumps (and AC) have amazingly high efficiency. I have seen SEER up to 28 in some smaller mini-split ones. I'm thinking of adding one for the living area of my house to avoid using the less-efficient central AC/heat much of the time. I recently installed solar panels and I need to fully-employ their output. Heat pumps are most effective for heating in the mid-U.S.
Heat pumps don't function well in very cold weather. They become extremely efficient and can only heat your home so much if the temperature drops below freezing.
I was in -20C and had no problem at all, but I have electric backup coils for when it’s -30C or below. Never had to use them. What are you even talking about?
I didn't say that they don't function at all. I was telling you about efficiency. Heat pump efficiency is tied to the outside temperature:
https://learnmetrics.com/heat-pump-efficiency-vs-temperature-graph/
Yes the technology has improved as just a handful of years ago if the temperature was near the freezing mark a heat pump wouldn't heat your home to anywhere near room temperature. That said there is still an efficiency questions which is a matter of thermodynamics.
Granted I live in Florida and never have to worry about extreme cold so here we only use heat pumps. However if I lived where there several days per year below freezing then the best option is to have a flex system where you can use gas in the extreme temps and heat pumps in the moderate temps.
This isn’t true at all, mine worked perfectly well at -20C
The cost curve for renewables and energy storage means that even ignoring government subsidies (or opposition), the energy transition is going to happen.
Agreed. It will happen. Unfortunately, there is a lot of oil that can be sold at sub $40/barrel some at sub $30. I think GHG emissions are close to peaking now, and will peak by end of decade. That said, the decline in global GHG emissions will be slow, and that is my main concern. I wish everyone used the Berkeley Earth baseline temperature, because they (Berkeley) measure 2023 as being more than a 1.5 C increase from the pre Industrial Revolution average temp.
We definitely need a cap on emissions as well as renewables. The good news is that low cost emissions and rapid electrification of transport makes a cap more political achievable. The bad news is that we keep coming up with new ways of consuming an obscene amount of energy (crypto mining, AI etc).
Yes. Plus, we are slowly end of life-ing hydro and nuclear, and drought reduces hydroelectric and nuclear yields and increases trucking of water.
Plus, adding ac to more places as it warms is humane but energy intensive and running ac harder in places it already exists.
And we will almost certainly have “free” electricity on a regular basis when renewables are performing well… leading to all kinds of interesting possibilities of what to do with free energy.
China is going gang-busters on the energy transition - essentially driving the global trend: see Adam Tooze Chartbook 284
Isn't China building shitloads of coal power plants right now?
Most of the coal station rebuilds are high efficiency units. The amount of coast station capacity is being dwarfed by renewables. More solar was installed in China last year than the rest of the world combined.
They are using the coal plants like the west is using gas plants - as peaker plants, so they won't be running all the time. Hopefully they will all be replaced by renewables in 20 years time.
I didnt know you could do that with coal. Coal usually requires a lengthy spin up time.
I think I heard it here: https://www.volts.wtf/p/whats-going-on-with-china-these-days
Not true peaker plants with very fast startup, but fast enough.
Edit: not similar in start up time, but in the role they play in their grid
"what's important to realize, is that the economics of a coal-fired power plant in China are much closer to a gas peaker in the US than to a coal plant in the US. The capital costs for building a new coal-fired plant in China are incredibly low.
The fuel costs are more or less the same as anywhere. So that just means that the amount of capital tied to it isn't anywhere near as large. And also, China has a very high tolerance for redundant or stranded assets."
And they are running about 50% of the time.
Thanks for the explanation!
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The tits are already, as they say, 'up'. Any new fossil extraction, or power plant is a crime against humanity.
That said, the new coal plants in China might not be as terrible as it seems on first look. And they are the epicentre of clean manufacturing - solar, wind and batteries.
Clean coal lol
Washed before use.
China has more solar than the next like 10 countries combined.
china also has more people than the next 10 countries combined excluding India
Yes - but using them less: https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/china-coal-plants
Might , thats the point, china is very secretive they could just be blowing smoke...which ironically they do a lot of
Yes.
There is currently a place on Earth, that in the middle of summer you can still freeze to death.
Middle of summer in what part of the earth
Antarctica?
Congrats you win
The part you are standing on when you freeze to death.
The walk in freezer
Yes but my point is middle of summer in one hemisphere is middle of winter in another
for now...
In fact, cold deaths are far more common than heat deaths (for now) globally
- wind and solar are relatively cheap power sources
- biden is fining methane polluters
- we know a way to exert a cooling effect : SRM particulates to increase cloud cover
- china is making cheap electric cars and scooters
- ebikes are a thing
- cafes might start greening their sidewalks
- were figuring out geothermal.. could play a large part
- battery tech keeps improving
- young people want to know about climate
- weve made some progress on fusion
- people like you care about this
I read this: https://cleantechnica.com
We have all the technologies needed to get to 90-95% renewable electricity grids, even counting the large increases in usage coming from BEVs and heat pumps replacing fossil heating. And they are the cheapest forms of new electricity generation. The last chunk is going to be harder and more expensive, but its possible.
Low carbon building is a mature technology - stick framed hempcrete insulated housing is better in every way than conventional construction.
Even the hard to decarbonise industries (industrial heat, concrete, agriculture) have a lot of very smart people working on the solutions. See the 'volts' podcast. Permaculture has a bunch of practical ways to change how you live for the better. Better for you, society and the environment.
you can start veggies earlier.
Fruit trees blossomed and haven’t froze yet.
There are a lot of really smart and capable people working hard every day to make it better
I work in the climate change space and I really appreciate this comment. It gets downright depressing sometimes
Do you see any actual hope in any of the responses to this thread? All I see are people looking out for themselves on a planet thats collapsing out of view.
I really want to be hopeful, I just can't imagine trying to explain to the last turtle on a dead reef how the battery in my car is going to undestroy her home.
Everything we do or make to "address" this issue focuses on keeping everything and magically not emitting carbon, even though we have way more people limited by a much less healthy system.
Whenever I hear climate pros being interviewed, if the message is hopeful, it's always about buying new stuff, like we can buy our way out of the hole we made by buying things.
Then there's the grid we refuse to prioritize that would make alternative energy truly viable... it feels like we're trading real hope for manufactured "hope" branded products because we're not actually willing to stop our harmful behavior.
Can you find any hope in any of this energy transition stuff?
china is doing its part making cheap evs. they can help the west meet their target for ice elimination.
Ice in internal combustion engine or frozen water as current emissions targets still melt all the glaciers. Remember building this cars whether or not they run on batteries or gas will only add to emissions
This is what depresses me about this whole thread. It's all "you can buy this thing that's more efficient!" As if it magically appears without being made or without the elements in its battery being mined.
Is this all we're willing to do? Buy different new stuff? That's what should make me hopeful about the state of the climate?
How can anyone find hope in products of industry?
Greenwashing has become the anthem of climate action?
It's nauseating
The ozone layer is healing
This is double good news because it proves that we can fix an environmental issue if we care enough and gives us an example of a way that's worked before
Thats... a complete false equivalency. These, are in no mechanical sense, similar problems.
Even the current symptoms of climate change are all unique, distinct issues that will require vastly different approaches to even attempt to undo.
It's like comparing dishwasher maintenance to sowing a garden... not even the same ballpark.
I don't say this to drag the conversation down; we just need to acknowledge that these problems don't have a simple fix. Hell, even assuming that we can fix bits and pieces of climate change is dangerous- as many people will use it as an excuse to be complacent (be all like "blah blah we'll figure something out")
They're both environmental issues created by atmospheric pollution. They're not as incomparable as you imply. Besides, my point was that there was a will to do something to fix a problem and a solution was successfully implemented that produced results
Meanwhile, next to nothing meaningful has been done to make a significant difference in the reduction of co2, probably due to the scale of the problem, but it is possible and some people are trying
I never said it had a simple fix, just that assuming that no one will ever do anything and things will only get worse, as plenty of comments to the op's post suggest, is not a guarantee
And not to be a downer either, but, like the person responding to you, the Montreal protocol was adopted because the solution already existed without any extra cost. Also, what "fixed" the problem is set of long lasting global warming gases... and there's still at least a few countries manufacturing/releasing CFC's since their concentration is rising again.
The scale of co2 extraction would have to be double the scale of fossil fuel delivery just to keep up with our emissions.
Someone else did the math on it and it's $14/gallon of gas just to capture the carbon, then you have to add all of the energy and more we got out of it to build all this crap, to turn it back into something stable and put it back into the ground.
If you can imagine two CO2 stations for every gas station you can think of, and people spending 5-10x as much on fuel to cover the cost of taking it out of the air. this is limited by thermodynamics and can only be made so efficient, and will always take more energy to put back than we got out of it when we burned it... way more.
It's like comparing liking chocolate ice cream but making the sacrifice and eating vanilla, to making real ice cream without a cow.
If it's negative to be realitistic, we're in real trouble
I'm not saying it's negative to be realistic. I'm saying this thread is full of people who will shit on you for being optimistic. And if being optimistic is not only negative, but makes you a target for negativity, then you're not gonna wanna take action, and without action, nothing will ever get done
I never said it was easy. I just tried to remind people that it should be possible to convince government to do something
Why wouldn't it be on people to do something? Why are we acting like the government forces us to burn oil?
What's the difference between optimism and faith?
I'm not saying people can't or shouldn't do anything, but it's fairly well known that most emissions are from industry. Most companies will never do anything to lower their carbon footprint unless it profits them to do so or they are forced to do so by regulation
I don't see anyone acting like the government is forcing us to burn oil. I don't see where you get that idea. People will actually continue to burn oil unless they're given a very good reason to stop. Especially since oil is very energy dense and there's a widespread infrastructure to support it's use
Faith relies on believing without evidence, usually in the supernatural
Yes. The true cost of DAC isn't $700/ton. Removing one ton of co2 w/DAC consumes 1.3 MWH of juice, which on average generates a 1/2 ton of new co2. So to remove one ton NET, you have to remove 2 tons via DAC. DAC true cost is $1,400/ton.
Imagine if we were to implement a "pay as you go" model. This means that when I combust 105 gallons of gasoline, I emit roughly one ton of co2.
I have now created a $1,400 cleanup cost. So, technically the Gov ought to add a cleanup surcharge of $14/gallon to my cost at the pump.
Just sayin
Still only part of the true cost, capturing isn't converting or sequestering. Those are even harder.
Its going to be decades before its back to normal
We can maybe stop, not return to what it was
Ozone fix was like a bandaid compared to brain surgery bruh.
watch George Carlin video on plastic
Where I live the growing season is longer with less prevalence of droughts.
Everyone knows about climate change now, because we’ve heard the warnings constantly for 30+ years. So, that’s great.
I installed solar panels on my house four months ago and just got my first $0 electric bill. Next month, the electric company owes me, for producing more than I consume.
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We'll soon be able to swim any day in November.
Great song
Very soon 2027!!!
It will kill humankind first.
We are not doomed. Humanity will survive even at current levels of effort. We will adapt and overcome. Feeling like it's hopeless only helps the oil companies. While things are getting worse faster than expected we are also innovating faster than expected.
Northern properties bout to skyrocket
We've had a lot of recent advances in solid-state battery technology that look very promising. Since there is no liquid electrolyte, solid state batteries are much more energy dense, and can charge much faster (since they can tolerate much higher temperatures). At this point, they are expensive, and impractical to mass produce, but it is slowly improving. At some point, I'm hopeful they will become viable, and we will be able to replace most ICE cars and busses with electric vehicles that have over 1000 mile ranges, and can charge considerably within minutes.
This paper is a little outdated, but still useful if anyone is interested: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsenergylett.0c01977
On a similar note, I think soon we will have more cost-effective large-scale batteries for storing renewable energy (wind, solar, etc.). This can address the inconsistent power output provided by these sources. Technology like sodium-ion batteries, which are far less space efficient than lithium, could be way cheaper and better for the environment. In a large-scale energy storage application, the poor space efficiency doesn't matter anyway.
I'm hoping that as these technologies become more viable, they will make it significantly easier to move to renewable energy.
I think there's also something to be said about nuclear fusion, and the immense potential it has, though, this is a much more challenging topic of research (not to say battery tech isn't challenging already!). I think we'll be lucky to have fusion reactors in the next 25 years, if at all.
Housing prices are going to see a massive drop in some areas, southern Florida for example
EV battery pack prices have dropped ten-fold in the last decade. Solar has followed a similar trajectory. We have to hope in technological innovation. The politics is just too depressing
Hear me out... isn't this just "you can still keep all your toys without feeling guilty" not actually fixing the climate problem?
Here's a bunch of them; https://climatehopium.substack.com/p/hope-climate-positive-news-stories
TL;DR is that the pace of renewables both in install and tech advancement is beyond anything predicted.
Florida gets an expensive lesson.
If you’re white, live in a first world country, belong to what we used to believe existed as “ middle classe”, you should be good for some few more decades.
(I’m not trolling)
True...if the rest of the world that's falling to pieces doesn't affect us. How likely is that?
(I’m really (really) not trolling)
That will happen but you have a job, probably a house in a nice neighborhood, insurance against flooding. We should be good for a 10 20 years until all that we take fro granted is pulled under our feet.
That’s my “good news”.
Seems accurate, although many in the rich world are now feeling so economically excluded that we may destroy ourselves in the meantime. Or maybe we actually have a real "greatest generation" on the rise that will think beyond their own retirement account balances.
I wish. But see a lot of wishful thinking and climate change like a bump in the road, instead of a total paradigm change.
The very best news is that we have all the technology we need. Cheap renewable power. Affordable electric cars. Affordable electric heat pumps for heating and cooling homes. Efficient HVDC electrical transmission. High-speed rail that can replace most air travel.
The challenge is that we live in countries controlled by old carbon economy incumbents that are doing their very best to stall all solutions. So join the fight to take down these vampires. We need you!
That the planet will be fine.
“Save the planet” bumper stickers should read “save the humans.”
humans caused this mess, save them from what? themselves?
Yes
Only good news comes when emissions decrease. Right now the increase is only slowing.
Once we are extinct we won’t feel it?
We've had a surprisingly mild spring so far here in Northern AZ
University Israeli military divestments could "start ball rolling" in demilitarizing climate pollution.
Canada's GGG emissions are down 7% from 2005 levels. More importantly, our GHG per GDP is down 30% in the same period. See the complete dataset released this week in Canada's National Greenhouse Gas Inventory, to be submitted to the UNFCCC as part of the Paris Agreement. https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/climate-change/greenhouse-gas-emissions/sources-sinks-executive-summary-2024.html#toc2
From where I am in Canada, it’s been quite dry over the winter. We are experiencing province wide drought with a lot of dams and rivers running dry due to lack of precipitation over the winter. Ok now the good news! No heat wave this may where temps rose pretty close to 30c in may of 2023, more prescription this year in may this year compared to last, cooler temps in May 2024 compared to 2023. So some good news some bad news. But I think it’s safe to say that this year is a slight improvement. Hoping that this summer temps aren’t to high and if any heat waves do occur they are mild and short lived.
Bill Gates has a plan to block out the sun to make the earth cool again. Basically it's like Ray Bays for the earth.
🌎 😎🌏
Worked really well in The Matrix movies
I can recommend https://climatehopium.substack.com for this need more longterm. Regular newsletter with hopeful climate news
The number one cars sold around the world are all EVs.
In Sydney they put in backup batteries and solar, and they paid all the infrastructure off. So there are sunny days where the power companies pay businesses to use daylight power as its so much more than capacity. Less than free.
Solar is so cheap now, it's cheaper to build a whole solar farm than it is to KEEP running an existing coal power plant.
When Obama was in, China spent billions in solar production and a decade later there are more people hired in renewables manufacturing than there are unemployed people in America
Investing in solar has huge returns.
I've done some analysis during my university studies, and I have noticed that CO2 emissions in Europe started to gradually decrease, partially because the share of renewables in this region is increasing (they also have some problems at the moment, but technologies in this field are improving as well).
People are finally coming around to nuclear technology and learning about the myths surrounding it. Science for the win! It’s likely too late but we can power the world with clean energy with nuclear.
Global air temperature appears to be renormalizing after the unusual pop-up beginning in mid-2023. No climate models predicted it and scientists are struggling to explain it. The switch to low-sulfur ship fuel, which reduces clouds over the oceans, is a thought by Jim Hansen's group.
https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/t2_daily/?dm_id=world
Ocean surface temperatures are also dropping:
I think it's much more worrying that there was a fully anomalous jump in temperature that cant be explained by experts in the field. Either we understand the system and our models are valid, or we don't and they arent
It's not that simple. We been understand parts, and not understand other parts. If the other parts are intermittent and temporary, then understanding them may not add much to a model.
A large change in temperature over 1 year isn't as important as a smaller change over 10 years when the smaller changes add up to more.
When do you think we will get back to the 1979-2000 average?
Good news climate change is already here so we don't have to wait until 2050!
Heat waves, more powerful hurricanes and sea level rise threatening the coast region increase the chance that Donald Trump might just suddenly die.
It’s been changing the whole time.
The answers to this question are more depressing than the question
The technology exists to solve the problem. It's not impossible we just all need to pull together.
Climate change will be great for northern countries! I'm looking forward to it.
It's raining in Alberta and the forest fires are going out.
you're in the wrong place buddy
I had an oddly optimistic conversation about the pandemic… I was talking to my SIL today about COVD. She is a doctor, I am a teacher. We agreed that the one thing that made us both hopeful was how quickly things changed and were accepted.
We tend to think that it is impossible to change people’s behaviours, but COVID showed that given the will, large scale international change can happen quickly and be adapted too as well. Of course there were a few wing nuts who see everything as a conspiracy, but they’re always there. I don’t know what kind of cataclysm it will take for people to address climate change in a similarly serious fashion, but I believe when they do, the change can be made.
Covid showed me how dumb and ignorant many Americans are. The sad thing about the trump era is just how many selfish, nasty people live amongst us.
Doesn't that prove that there is no will to make the changes needed to avoid the worst of climate decline? We've known about this problem for 30 years, it's been measurable for years, and noticeable for the last few.
If we were going to do something, what are we waiting for?
Once things happen, they can't be prevented.
It's easy to feel like people aren't paying attention. A lot of the right people are paying attention. AI won't necessarily save us, but we're about to see innovation accelerate in the next 10 years in a way we have never seen.
AI will destroy us, not in the sense it will go skynet on us, but it will destroy many peoples jobs and livelihoods. Its already happening.
The +4.0 C scenarios are a lot less likely now than they were 20 years ago. Every tenth of a degree will have a huge impact so even ending up in a +2.4 C world is way better, still terrible, but not quite as terrible.
How is that the case?
Because we actually started doing something about GHG emissions, it’s not enough yet, but it’s way better than twenty years ago when everything was just heading in a direction of exponential GHG growth. We’ve started bending the curve towards flattening and that’s a half-decent first step.
Just a few years ago we were on track for about 4 degrees C of warming by 2100. Today, thanks to faster-than-expected adoption of renewables, that is under 3 degrees. That's still way too much, but the message is: there's progress and there's hope. We have the technologies to solve this problem, and their prices are falling. All we need now, is the political will to move even faster, and that is something we can all help make happen with our voices, our votes and our dollars.
This is what keeps me from going off the deep end. 80% of climate scientists polled at the IPCC said 3 C or less is where we will hit.
That's not worst case scenario. And with all the new techonology/ practices coming more common then its not unthinkable that we can go lower.
Yes. This is going to be a long, hard slog, and we'll have to gut it out against the forces of denial and status quo, but these technologies work, they are getting cheaper, every year we're learning new things, and with every additional tenth of a degree we shave off the trajectory, we are saving millions of lives and avoiding untold misery.
We should not feel hopeless. We should feel empowered. The choice is dire and the hour is late, but we've never been in a better position to win.
How's that for sounding like Churchill? 😉
I need someone to explain how solar is going to save the world. I get that it reduces operating emissions, but we're seeing some rapidly accelerating change already and near total collapse of the oceans.
Ive also seen forests and farm fields replaced with solar installations which seems like a loss for the climate.
Nobody expects solar to save the world. It's one solution among many.
It has changed before. It will change again.
When we are long gone, the earth will keep on spinning.
You could justify rape the same way and it would ring just as sadistic
The good news is that the climate is warming and not cooling. Cooling would be catastrophic.
just curious....why?
Good news is the climate is changing and will continue to change.
I think we only have 5 years of suffering left. Apparently the world is ending soon.
Are you thinking a pole shift? I'm thinking a pole shift.
No, feedback loops and tipping points
That's less fantastical and exciting.
The problem isn't serious enough for any government to regulate/mandate working from home or sinking carbon by disposing of paper as garbage instead of recycling it.
... which just shows our governments shared incompetence to manage risk
The younger people in the west are pulling their heads out of their asses and becoming more accepting of nuclear power, an energy source that can actually replace fossil fuels.
Hopefully the over regulation of nuclear power which massively slows down construction time and drives up costs in the US will end. Nuclear power plants in the US used to be built in about 5 years and at far more reasonable costs than today.
Ive counted a lot of hope contingent upon major shifts we haven't taken any steps to make itt
Planet is greener than ever in my life, the opposite of what they told me would happen when I was in 5th grade.
Food production on smaller lots is possible with increased co2.
Warm is better than cold.
Humans are thriving.
All of your points are literally wrong, lol
Most life on Earth will adapt. Our existence in the universe is insignificant anyway. Try out nihilism?
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That statement is the worst-case scenario catastrophizing. Climate crusaders are starting to behave like a death cult. It is time to focus on the sensible middle scenario models. They are the most likely.
That's just how long evolution takes...
It’s been another beautiful day. 72 and relishing the days I don’t shovel snow off the bbq on Memorial Day.
Lucky you , meanwhile its been 90 and humid
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Heatpump technology works so well I switched completely off gas heating and saved about $700 last year. I live in Canada and my electricity is from nuclear. My house emits zero greenhouse gases and it saved me money. This should catch on.