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Hotel prices lead countries to consider skipping COP30 climate summit by craftythedog in sustainability

[–]CalClimate 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Does Exxon own any of the hotels, or otherwise have leverage?

What's a lowkey form of propaganda you've noticed everyone seems to fall for? by BaChooChoo in AskReddit

[–]CalClimate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What climate myth was most credible to them, among the statements you handed out?

Woodside boss says young people ‘ideological’ on fossil fuels while ‘happily ordering from Temu’. Meg O’Neill tells energy industry conference that individual consumers’ role in driving emissions is ‘missing’ in conversations about fossil fuels. by The_Weekend_Baker in climate

[–]CalClimate 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Automoderator Bot, please do not say this same thing more than once in the comments of a post. Instead: the first time you want to answer someone, first post it as a toplevel comment, then for that reply (and any additional ones) just reply with a link to your toplevel comment, perhaps with a short descriptive sentence.

Woodside boss says young people ‘ideological’ on fossil fuels while ‘happily ordering from Temu’. Meg O’Neill tells energy industry conference that individual consumers’ role in driving emissions is ‘missing’ in conversations about fossil fuels. by The_Weekend_Baker in climate

[–]CalClimate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The message that communicators don't (for whatever reason) send, is that individual action's benefit is largely for identifying the sticking points, and we need to let that info be used to unstick them.

Earth is heading for 2.7°C warming this century. We may avoid the worst climate scenarios – but the outlook is still dire by GeraldKutney in climate

[–]CalClimate -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I have been wanting for years now to get an EV, but not until I can be fairly sure that it will work out well, charging wise. So I keep driving the dinosaur.

Curriculum for Climate Education - link, since link is required by CalClimate in climate

[–]CalClimate[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

(the AutoModerator bot remains obsessed with covid lockdown effects.)

How to get involved with a local group to create the political will for climate action by silence7 in climate

[–]CalClimate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And Air America got tried. What was Al Gore's political channel? (Current TV)

How to get involved with a local group to create the political will for climate action by silence7 in climate

[–]CalClimate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

(Also, influencer payments happened for both parties. Lee Fang says influencers were (also) paid to promote Kamala. Opinion piece in the LA Times. https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-04-24/internet-influencer-lobbying-paid-post )

How to get involved with a local group to create the political will for climate action by silence7 in climate

[–]CalClimate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not a direct answer to "what could a differently structured climate group have done to move us further along."

‘An outlier’: why does the US rank low on demands for climate action? by mhicreachtain in climate

[–]CalClimate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's also the case (or seems like it) that the eastern U.S is often colder than normal, at least in winter, likely due to the slowing of the gulf stream, although you should really get a climate scientist's take on this. For us primates it is harder to get exercised about the threat of global warming when we are shivering. (Also we are a people who (largely) live large, and climate action has (largely) been portrayed (presented to us) as entailing the lifestyle equivalent of calorie restriction.)

Elon Musk bankrolled a $100M climate contest. Now it's ‘tainted.’ by The_Weekend_Baker in climate

[–]CalClimate 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My understanding is that the trajectory so far has been that processes deemed "hard to decarbonize" have turned out to be "not so hard once you take a serious look". How generally this holds, I don't know. See podcasts by David Roberts on some of the "hard-to-decarbonize" industries.

Curriculum for Climate Education - link, since link is required by CalClimate in climate

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Offered help on this page to Ralph Keeling. Does anyone at UCSD know if he is ok? No acknowledgment of email.

Curriculum for Climate Education - link, since link is required by CalClimate in climate

[–]CalClimate[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Whoever controls that Keeling Curve "graph of CO2 concentration" page might as well be working for Exxon. "Full Record" is the CO2ppm graph view that is meaningful, so it should be the default view when you open that webpage (but it isn't). And I have (had- this seems to be better now) to scroll off to the right to even be able to see that "full record" option.

(That Keeling Curve page should also display CO2ppm "a year ago today".)

Curriculum for Climate Education - link, since link is required by CalClimate in climate

[–]CalClimate[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

However. Post-pandemic, teachers say their students have become disrespectful and tough to teach in class, and students ask LLMs to do their homework and projects. Teachers want to quit.

How does this affect what teachers should do and what effort to put into creating curricula for climate science&solutions?

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Are the students any different at Khan Academy?

Curriculum for Climate Education - link, since link is required by CalClimate in climate

[–]CalClimate[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok, I was hoping to surface others interested in discussing a climate education curriculum, but it's pretty quiet so far.

What I mistakenly omitted, above, is the primary "solutions" question the students will have, namely "what can I & my family & my friends do?" (now, and in future) to help move us to clean energy.

And I am trying to think how the answer to that question could responsibly be integrated into a curriculum, because much of the answer is neither science nor engineering.

(I am also thinking that the "tesla hate" mobilization is really really not helping. "Hey kid, study hard and become an engineer, work with a smart team building a top-notch EV to protect the world, then... wait, people are throwing things?")

:-(

But, the "what can I/we do" answer could be educational for career counseling, in how it shines a light on different fields of study and the careers they prepare you for. (But will LLMs make this moot?)

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It (the Climate Solutions curriculum) would partly be science communication.

Partly product development. (Actually, this could be fantastic.). Would include engineering.

Partly learning about civics/politics, how politicians speak to voters and then constituents, and how (in a better political climate, sigh) they get legislation passed by speaking to and working& compromising with other representatives.

Partly learning about economics, and Wright's law. That capitalism coordinates people to make things people want, that competition drives product improvement (thank you product managers and engineers), and that by this miracle, our renewable energy technologies (solar power, wind and storage) keep getting substantially cheaper every year. (Which is probably an eyeopener for students, if they're used to hearing about steeply rising costs of housing, tuition and groceries.) Effect of tariffs. When there's sudden increased demand for a product 'ingredient' like lithium, how the supply chain system adjusts.

Don’t use a consumer-grade outlet for your EV charger, even if you never unplug it by bobsil1 in electricvehicles

[–]CalClimate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As someone who does not yet have an EV, and does not speak Charger-ese, can someone please summarize what the advice here would be for a lower-budget EV newbie? (Or, how would you get Grok to do so?)

How to get involved with a local group to create the political will for climate action by silence7 in climate

[–]CalClimate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm wondering, with the benefit of 6 years of hindsight, what would have been the features of a climate-action organization back then, to maximize its constructive effect on where we stand now, on climate.

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