Yes, worldwide emissions are still rising — largely because of emissions growth outside the US.

And no, it’s not a result of “dodgy accounting” — it’s because of how electrical generation has changed, with a sharp drop in the use of coal.

Yeah, inland areas transition to a thermokarst landscape, while places next to the ocean can just disappear entirely.

It depends intensely on what you mean by “thermal runaway” — we can absolutely create a world which will support a much smaller population; we can’t really create a world where we boil off the oceans like Venus.

The author literally wrote one of the commonly-used intro texts about climate.

They’re well aware of feedbacks, and that’s part of the standard understanding that scientists have.

Actually, the US has cut emissions already. Just not to zero, which is where it needs to go.

The court decision is indeed one to limit the use of seawalls to protect against property damage. There are limited cases where they’ll still be used, but it’s not going to be too widespread in California as a result.

And he intimidates everybody around him to hide it:

Reached for comment, the author of the letter said, “If you print that, I will deny I wrote it.” When he was reminded that it had been sent from the same personal e-mail account that he still uses, he said, “I don’t care. I’ll just say it never happened.”

The problem us that private seawalls have the effect of destroying public beaches, which is why California restricts them.

Yeah. Been violated a handful of times (eg: during LA riots) but there are almost no court cases about it

Busy surrendering their third amendment rights of course.

With language, that’s usually something you need to do to communicate.

You may not like the term, but it’s what everybody else is using.

That’s normal. On reddit, only about 2 or 3 percent click through to the article. Given the user interface similarity, I’d expect the same here

The latter. Per the article:

“On behalf of all the women (and I know it’s many) you have abused in some way, I say … get some help and take an honest look at yourself,” Penelope Hegseth wrote, stating that she still loved him.

They’re sanewashing here. The accusation is about letting staff molest boys

Pretty much. They changed the title to be less inflammatory but not the link preview.

It’s a gift link. You should be able to get full access to the article (and the animations that are not in the archive) for the next 30d if you have a normally functioning browser, don’t run an extension which chops off the gift token from the URL, and have Javascript turned on.

You’ve gone from a passive fund to an active fund there I think, with the associated far higher expenses. You can get close to divested from the fossil fuels industry via the Vanguard FTSE Social Index Fund would get you an expense ratio of 0.14%, which is about where index funds were charging when they didn’t have the same economies of scale they do today.

We have little power to change policy at grocery stores. We have enormous power to choose to put smaller plates out.

Or the original idea was to run a PR exercise for the fossil fuels industry, creating social permission to keep on extracting and burning.