For sure. But I’ll appreciate seeing it happen now instead of never

Unfortunately gumming up the Senate is about the only tool a minority has

They couldn’t during 2021-2022 when Democrats had 50 seats in the Senate plus the VP. You could pass what the most conservative Democrat was willing to vote for then, so long as it was a budget reconciliation bill.

A bribe is a bribe is a bribe, even if we can only see one of the quid and the quo.

There aren’t enough Democrats in the Senate to actually stop them. Just slow things down so much that the Republicans need to pick and choose which ones they care enough to push through.

We have much more detailed estimates of impact on the first world.

Most of them will, but it only takes a handful who won’t to sink the bill.

Yeah, the Inflation Reduction Act was quite deliberately designed to create a huge jobs incentive in Republican-leaning districts so that there would be real pain for Republicans who voted to repeal it. They may do so anyways.

So call congress.

There were still copies in the National Archives. Just not readily available to the public, and more importantly, not getting updates.

The magic here is that the Library of Congress has the Capitol Police backing them, and they answer to Congress, not the President.

It’s not just cancer; its a very quantifiable death count

Yes, been a net fossil fuel exporter for a while.

So far as I can tell, no.

There really is about to be a major supply chain interruption

Fuels in the US are highly regional

Context for those who dont know it:

The absence of sparrows, which traditionally kept locust populations in check, allowed swarms to ravage fields of grain and rice. The resulting agricultural failures, compounded by misguided policies of the Great Leap Forward, triggered a severe famine from 1958 to 1962. The death toll from starvation during this period reached 20 to 30 million people

Yeah, I have an older model of that sitting around from before I replaced my main stove.

A large part of what they do is research. Taking away a couple billion a year that the government spends on that at Harvard is a big deal, even if the institution can ultimately survive it

That’s two of the big three sources of household emissions. There’s a third one though: which is heating and cooling.

I’d look at getting those off of fossil fuels next, and doing what you can to get electricity from renewables.

That’s the top 10% in the United States. They’re talking about the top 10% in the world.

Only when they can performatively blow smoke in people’s faces. You can’t do that with a hot water heater.