Dr. Jonathan Foley
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Dr. Jonathan Foley
@globalecoguy.bsky.social

- Executive Director, Project Drawdown drawdown.org
- Climate scientist, working on solutions
- Passionate about science, communication, and hope
- Minnesota based, Maine born

- Personal account / My views

Environmental science 62%
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Yeah, but I don't think we need to be worry about Massachusetts being invaded by the Russian Navy :-)

This is 100% BS
FOX: I can understand people may not want to look at wind turbines and they may not be cost efficient, but what's the national security concern?

BURGUM: The national security concerns as delivered by a classified Dept of War report focus around radar and radar interference
FOX: I can understand people may not want to look at wind turbines and they may not be cost efficient, but what's the national security concern?

BURGUM: The national security concerns as delivered by a classified Dept of War report focus around radar and radar interference

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Ha! It’s a perfect response. But it's still better not to go at all.

What works? What doesn’t?

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If they do crack it (and provide independent evidence of this), great, we will update our assessment accordingly.

In the meantime, maybe it should be a R&D project, not multi-billion dollar taxpayer-funded construction projects…

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It’s not a climate solutions. In fact, it’s a climate problem.

Yeah. I hear you. FWIW, I don’t use generative AI myself, other than occasionally playing with it. I’m just not that impressed with its quality and reliability for the work that I do.

I don’t think the seaweed stuff is panning out that well. Certainly not compared to the initial hype. But, still, something to watch.

Yeah, scientists were seeing this in the 1990s, at FACE experiments, if not earlier. And it’s not very surprising, but still not appreciated enough.

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Not excusing AI. It is something to watch.

But when I constantly hear how bad the emissions are *now* I wanted to put them in context. That’s just a little math.

Obviously if this grows 10x-100x, it will be 10x-100x worse.
Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year

Change seems unimaginable at first.

And then, suddenly, it doesn’t. It’s just “normal”.
I lived thru the end of public smoking. Early in my career I presented to city councils who were smoking, in front of audiences who were smoking.

Smoking in restaurants, airplanes, hospitals…

All of that seems insane now, but it was very controversial when we DID change it.

We CAN change things.
It’s crazy that people used to be able to just smoke cigarettes wherever they wanted

Putting greenhouse gas emissions numbers into context can be hard. The numbers are large, unfamiliar, and not intuitive.

That's why Project Drawdown and a team at the University of San Francisco collaborated to create a new web tool -- Carbon in Context.

www.carbonincontext.com
Carbon in Context
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Of course. Just a bit of arithmetic to show how little this expensive project would accomplish, even if it works as promised. And I wouldn’t hold my breath.

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Some proposed climate “solutions” just don’t stack up against an objective, evidence-based perspective.

That’s why the Drawdown Explorer calls these “Not Recommended” climate solutions.

Yeah, another DAC boondoggle. Even if it ends up working at all, it’s looking to maybe remove the emissions of 2,000 Canadians. Out of 42 million.

“Congratulations! For hundreds of millions of dollars you might — though it’s unlikely — eventually address 0.005% of Canada’s emissions!”

I dunno. The NY Times op-Ed page sure publishes a lot of nonsense.
Hype.

No form of CO₂ removal is a climate solution as long as we’re still releasing >40 billion tonnes of CO₂ every year from fossil fuel burning.
Hope or hype? Deep Sky says unique carbon-capture facility eyed for southwestern Manitoba will help ‘save our planet’; critics call technology high-risk and under-researched
Since early October, the rural municipalities of Pipestone and Two Borders — agriculture and oil-dominant communities about three hours southwest of Winnipeg — have found themselves at the heart of a ...
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