Notices by Andrew Dessler (andrewdessler@mastodon.world), page 3

But the idea that fossil fuel interests would let the market beat fossil fuels is ridiculous. This is possibly the richest and most powerful industry in the history of the world and they will fight tooth and nail to keep us using fossil fuels.

how it started vs. how it's going

sums up climate change perfectly
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/18/opinion/china-economy-xi.html

Calls/emails from reporters asking for a comment on last's years temperature are coming earlier than normal this year. Time to dust off my "last year was hot" auto-response.

it used to be that having an electric car was unusual and weird. it isn't anymore. that tells you something about the transition in cars that's going on right now.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/12/tesla-chatgpt-most-important-technology/676980/

remember that time I went to the doctor and he prescribed me antibiotics and then I got better. man, what an alarmist he was.

in reality, of course, ozone depletion was the 'bullet that missed'
https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/ozone-depletion-the-bullet-that-missed

more and more scientists think that climate change is an 'emergency''.

on The Climate Brink, I explain why I'm one of them.

https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/is-climate-change-an-emergency

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @breadandcircuses

The point of my article is not that we CANNOT adapt, it's that the people pushing adaptation have zero interest in actually doing it. Instead, it's an excuse to do nothing.

We absolutely can and need to adapt. But we also need to decarbonize. We need to do everything.

"knock on wood" is our actual climate policy

Things are going well. Consecutive WaPo news headlines:

Alternative headline: "We just had one of the coolest July 4ths of the rest of your life."

This July 4 was hot. Earth’s hottest day on record, in fact.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/07/05/hottest-day-ever-recorded/