My article with NREL’s Jeff Logan on climate change solutions in The Hill.
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Chuck Kutscher
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Fellow & Sr. Research Associate, CU-Boulder, former nat'l lab center director (ret.), author, and speaker focused on climate change communications & solutions.
Golden, ColoradoJoined October 2009
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“...doom is definitely gaining traction, including among some people in the field, but it’s really unhelpful...because research shows the more hopeful you are, the more likely you are to..be taking action.”
--Leading climate comms expert
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🧵1⃣ This morning we () released our assessment of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) on emissions, jobs, health impacts.
In short: this is a BIG deal.
Topline: the provisions in the bill could reduce US emissions to 37-41% below 2005 levels in 2030
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Didn't want to read the 725 pages of the Manchin-Schumer bill last night?
I gotchu. Here's a detailed summary that lists the dollar amount for each of the bill’s 100+ climate & energy provisions. Grouped by sector, w/ text citations:
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It's not clear in the figure I posted what the filled markers for BEVs mean. Here's another figure of "current tech" that shows BEVs with lowest lifetime emissions. Lifetime costs are not the lowest, but they neglected BEV maintenance cost savings (~40% in other studies).
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Contrary to the fossil fuel propaganda campaign, the latest Argonne National Laboratory study shows that battery electric vehicles have the lowest lifetime costs and greenhouse gas emissions of all vehicles. Yes, better than hybrids despite their larger batteries.
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We need to take this seriously. We are in a #ClimateEmergency
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A clip from Don’t Look Up, and then a real TV interview that just happened
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A normal summer high temperature near London is about 20-25 °C (68-77 °F).
Having gotten to 40.2 °C (104.4 °F) is so far removed from what is a normal summer day in the UK that it barely seems possible.
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"The US is the only major nation in which an authoritarian right-wing party - which lost the popular vote in 7 of the past 8 presidential elections yet controls the Supreme Court - blocks actions that might prevent climate catastrophe." #systemschange
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This America is gone forever.
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Five years ago, I co-founded the campaign to make Breitbart unprofitable. They lost 90% of their ad revenues in 3 months. Today, we're launching the campaign to take on Fox News — and we know exactly how to get the job done. cc
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Steve Kerr on today's tragic shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
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Some good news, Mike!
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Fascinating article about black holes.
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PS for some reason the @AstronomyMag article didn’t paste right, so here is the article I referred to earlier on how black holes shred stars! astronomy.com/magazine/news/
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The cover of the latest issue of the major medical journal, The Lancet.
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The story of a book I spent three years writing told here in 1 minute and 23 seconds.
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Cape Hatteras National Seashore (Seashore) has confirmed that an unoccupied house at 24265 Ocean Drive, Rodanthe, N.C. collapsed this afternoon. This is the second unoccupied house collapse of the day at the Seashore. Read more: nps.gov/caha/learn/new
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This is beyond disturbing if it’s accurate.
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Replying to @Flywoman1950 and @alfranken
He was aligned to deliver the win to trump but expect Pelosi to save democracy. Watch this gem:
twitter.com/ronfilipkowski
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We need to conduct a candid, self-critical review of how we’re communicating the climate change issue in the US and identify ways to improve. We clearly need to be smarter about how we counter the disinformation campaign.
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“It increasingly matters not only how much energy is used but also when it is used.” Efficiency will play a crucial role not only in minimizing the amount of new electricity needed, but also in shaping demand to match the variable solar and wind supply.
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I spoke with CU Boulder's and Oana Luca about this week's report on #climatechange #mitigation.
TL;DR: The solutions are affordable and available now!
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This is a very important issue!
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"Climate research funded by fossil fuel profits discredits universities and hurts the planet" (latimes.com/opinion/story/) | My op-ed with Ilana Cohen (@ilanabana) as it appeared in yesterday's print issue of The @LATimes:
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We’re still thinking about @JonBatiste’s colorful, larger-than-life #GRAMMYs performance:
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Insane.
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I just captured the most insane strike of lightning I’ve ever caught on camera.. 
@weatherchannel @KSNNews @KWCH12 @KAKEnews @JimCantore
@weatherchannel @KSNNews @KWCH12 @KAKEnews @JimCantore
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Every energy source has environmental impacts, but the RE industry is trying hard to do a better job of stewardship than its predecessors in the coal, oil, and natural gas industries. To wit, the first recyclable thermoplastic-based wind turbine blade.
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DeJoy’s committing 90% of new Post Office vehicles to run on fossil fuels locks us in to many more years of carbon emissions. This is a travesty. Where’s the Biden administration?
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"In a survey of 10,000 people between ages 16 and 25 in 10 countries, three-fourths said they think “the future is frightening.'”
Your weekly reminder on progress towards our climate goals out to 2050, measured by fossil CO₂ emissions...
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Russians watching state TV in Russia are just like Fox News viewers in the US. Unfortunately, propaganda works.
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Wordle 226 3/6 My first Wordle. Beginner’s luck. Better quit while I’m ahead.
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How well have climate models predicted the temperature rise? Pretty darn well.
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For what its worth, we have been projecting future warming since the first climate models in the late 1960s/early 1970s. We can look back to see how well they have performed. It turns out our models generally did a good job: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10
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This pretty well sums up what is going on these days.
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In case you missed it, Mitch McConnell said the quiet part out loud last night: “African-American voters are voting in just as high a percentage as Americans.”
Make sure everyone sees this.
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South Australia is demonstrating the potential for achieving a reliable grid based on solar and wind.
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