Pete Erickson

More proportional representation and clattering marbles! Fewer bouncing basslines! ;)

I can barely grasp that quote out of context but I'm still sold!

How to assess *intention* in climate change communications?

Been listening to podcasts with oil & gas industry reps. Profit motive means conflict of interest, but... bad faith too? On other hand, NGO or journalistic standing means....good faith?

I use to see it more clearly. Should I still?

Industry self-reporting also gets laundered through BC gov't when they adopt it for their own GHG inventories, instead of using independent scientific studies. I've testified in legal cases in Washington State where I had convinced local officials of the errors, but because BC gov't did it...

Oh, the hate I got at a COP meeting one year on a panel with McKinsey and C40 Cities on this very topic.....by daring to publicly question's McKinsey's evidence-free asserting that autonomous vehicles would be good for VMT.

This is really worth reading in full. One thing I'd highlight is the dynamic with funders is real.

As Len says, nobody will tell a "funder their theory of change is wrong.....Funders experience this as consensus when it is actually self-selection."

I've experienced this *so* many times.

"The next phase of environmental leadership will...

...be rooted in material reality rather than professional culture. It will be accountable to the people most affected rather than to the donors most comfortable. It will know the difference between a land acknowledgment and a land relationship."

Yeah, fine, yell at me! You may be surprised what I say back.

If you, like me, resisted the hype about the Geese record "Getting Killed", do not resist any further. Give in! It's such a grower, such a perfectly unhinged rock record. Watch the SNL performance of Trinidad if you want an intro...

The TDE mandarins have arrived at the co-op in Seattle, and I can assure you they are worth every bit of their $4.50 (!) per pound

Average and the Mean plays the Northwest Film Forum

Proof

Yell away. I stayed away from bluesky to avoid the yelling, but now I'm ready. ;)

I know the avg. millennial might not get the +/- reference in my banner photo, but you might.

Me= Gen X, or I'd join

Yeah, right! LCA wonks unite to call out wrong functional units (it happens all the time)

If you're gonna play loose with descriptive statistics, you need to know I was once in a punk band called The Average and the Mean. I will jump off my amp on to your IQR.

No way around it, the Seahawks victory parade today was fun, so much celebrating with strangers, plus I swear JSN looked me right in the eye and mouthed "it was you, your last-minute fandom, you made this"

It's good

As Waxman-Markey embodied, specific federal legislation targeting anthropogenic climate-changing emissions would have been a much more direct way to go (and may yet be).

Thank you Tim (on both counts). Super interesting paper. As you note, refinery sector already at this minimum viable scale point in California. May get there in next 5-7 years in the US Midwest, as my recent analysis there finds (and I'm not the only one to find this, industry knows it...)

...Then, BLM followed the court order, doing the math like I had done, and from there, Biden admin considered it all and approved the project. Kinda seemed like NEPA and project approvals working as intended, to me the scientist! Many thought differently, of course....

Very good episode. The reference to the Willow project approval was interesting. I was cited in the 2021 district court ruling by Gleason, where the court rejected the project on NEPA grounds, essentially saying that BLM should have quantified the CO2 emissions like I did in a 2016 blogpost...

I always appreciate how comfortable Oreskes is with the messiness of science, and yet steadfast (and ultimately, I think, correct) belief that the social character of science is the reason to trust it in the first place. Her book Why Trust Science has been hugely influential on me.

Might be projecting, but I'd guess that community and aesthetics will be important to their target demo. How build those in, in appealing ways?

That's v. interesting. Most of my work is on oil & gas, and the "surprise" tactic of abandoning old wells (via bankruptcy and leaving) seems to fit. Refineries too. (e.g., Midwest could see a few close over next decade as gasoline & diesel demand sag, see:)

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There's an adage in community organizing that one needs to "move at the speed of trust". But for trust, one needs health, safety, stability. As I read it, this paper ⬇️ is about getting out ahead of that in energy planning, to address weak points, so the energy transition can move faster. Yes!

What a cool project. I understand if your focus is mainly on peer-reviewed (i.e. journal) science, though there is also a rich vein to explore focused on the "grey literature" in, say, nonprofit climate organizations. Funders (say, Bloomberg) can shop their own ideas quite successfully.

Just signed up...

For sure, but since to left-leaning normies, liberals really *are* the only ones with agency to make things better, isn't that the rational response, even setting aside any impulse for "cleverness" (as you note)?

Ask questions... here? Okay, I listened, and here's one. I found it difficult to tell where the bounds of the critique were... like, is *anyone* in media doing what David and Michael (or you) would want? (And how's that going?). It had a flavor that everyone's doing it wrong...but..then what?