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1) Best way to cut emissions is through systemwide changes & collaboration with a group. Lots of 'em, find one you like.
2) Making personal changes still matters. But use your limited energy on what matters most. Digging this quiz to check your knowledge!
Thanks for the shout out . Psyched to bring more of these answers to our audiences, and happy we're now regularly in cahoots with our friends via #ClimateFix
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ed all the questions & comments we got on today's @KQEDForum speaking about extreme weather (including those who pushed back against my climate optimism)! #climatefix
"What can I do?" was common ques. & I wanted to give a shout out to @lauraklivans work on this front.
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ed all the questions & comments we got on today's @KQEDForum speaking about extreme weather (including those who pushed back against my climate optimism)! #climatefix
"What can I do?" was common ques. & I wanted to give a shout out to @lauraklivans work on this front.
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What's the backstory on your delicious 🍊?
1) they're threatened by parasites that poop sugary candy
2) Argentine ants eat that sweet poop & protect the parasites
3) orange growers use lasers & poison balls to fight back
4) all of the above
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Looking forward to 2023 - what do YOU think will be the biggest climate stories in NorCal this coming year?
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. and tease out the policy and politics behind Newsom's call for a special session to penalize oil companies for excessive profits. Would It help or hurt consumers?
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The teams at NASA make discoveries and explore galaxies — and soon the agency will have a new venture here on Earth, piloting a full season of its first Spanish-language podcast in 2023.
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In Marin County/nationally fire department diversity is dismal. Of the co's 80 full-time ff's, 83% are white men, 7.5% are white women, 7.5% are Latino, 2% are Asian, 0% are Black.
Fire Foundry wants to change this.
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SF Superior Court judge Loretta Giorgi also said she worked with the victim's daughter, Christine Pelosi, in the 90s in the City Attorney's office. She said she had not been in contact with Christine since that time. Christine Pelosi was at the hearing today.
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Jenkins said witnesses and evidence called at the Dec 14 hearing could include Paul Pelosi, and the 911 dispatcher he spoke with the night of the attack. The DA office will decide whether or not to show police body camera footage.
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"This is an extremely dangerous individual who we want to make sure goes to prison." - DA Brooke Jenkins said to the press today.
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The district attorney’s office must prove there is probable cause at that hearing for felony charges including attempted murder.
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Today's David DePape (man accused of attacking Paul Pelosi with intent to attack House Speaker Nancy Pelosi) hearing was a matter of minutes. Judge Loretta Giorgi set a date for DePape's preliminary hearing of Dec. 14
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On to the east side of Pepperwood Preserve, where firing continues on the @CALFIRELNU prescribed burn near Santa Rosa. @NorthBayNews
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Calling my fellow nerds! This will be very fun.
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.@calacademy scientists and KQED Science reporter @lauraklivans team up to challenge you to trivia about local flora and fauna.
Also featuring short videos by #DeepLook!
Reg. for this Nov. 1 event:
kqed.org/event/2483
Reg. for this Nov. 1 event:
kqed.org/event/24831
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I'm on general assignment for the next two weeks. Send me your timely climate news in Northern California please! dms are open, or send an email to lklivans@kqed.org
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This is awesome!
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Denmark's public transit agency has made the greatest transit advertisement of all time. No notes. (Din Offentlige Transport)
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Big fan of and this from her newsletter this week: "What I lose sleep over is not the tiny fraction (less than 10%) who are climate deniers. What keeps me up at night is the large majority of people who are climate concerned, but passive."
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Time to change the narrative.
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A shocking moment during #ClimateWeekNYC last week. At an evening event, I asked for a show of hands: who was confident we’ll be at half global emissions by 2030? (1/7)
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Overall, this is a lot of growth.
But is it enough to reach what projects is needed to make CA's electricity system carbon free by 2045 (49,000 MW)? I asked staff.
Their answer? Yes, it is.
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Then there are distributed batteries -- installed in homes, schools, businesses.
"These distributed resources actually added together, make up the biggest battery in the world." -
Del Chiaro estimates ~900 megawatts of power are coming from distributed batteries.
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"If we had not added all the storage that was added in the last two years, we would have had significant rolling blackouts." - Duncan Callaway
And, Callaway says, "We are at the beginning of a massive wave of new storage capacity."
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Utility-scale storage means battery plants, with rows of batteries that look like shipping containers.
's website shows that batteries provided more than 3 gigawatts of energy at times this month.
1 gigawatt is enough to power ~750,000-1,000,000 CA homes
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Also, batteries. 🔋
"Utility-scale storage has grown by a factor of ten in the last two years and is now at a point where it can supply as much as 6% of the power that Californians need on peak demand days." - Duncan Callaway
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The state's success avoiding blackouts relied on the West’s large power grid, decades of energy efficiency work, and regular people unplugging devices when the state asked them to with a text message. (more on this here on.nrdc.org/3BULRfB h/t Ralph Cavanagh)
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When Californians hit an all time record for energy use earlier this month, I wanted to know what role batteries played in averting rolling blackouts.
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"There was no good time for Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked, idiotic invasion of Ukraine. But this is a uniquely bad time. Because it’s diverting worldwide attention and resources needed to mitigate climate change."
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Want to slash almost half a °C of warming? Cut HFC superpollutants.
That's what the Senate just did in ratifying the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol. And it was a BIPARTISAN vote! A BIG climate deal worth celebrating. 🎉🌎🌍🌏
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Enjoying the opinion pieces coming out of late taking down the traditional lawn. Check out the illustrations on this one: washingtonpost.com/opinions/inter
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CA electricity use hit its highest level ever yesterday. As state officials prepared for rolling outages, they sent an emergency text to millions to reduce energy use.
Demand dropped within moments. With ongoing heat, this scenario may play out again tonight.
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Senator Manchin is right: we need to get on top of inflation and help Americans afford their energy bills.
Thank you Senator for doing the right thing and coming back to the negotiating table. Let's pass these energy provisions to help all Americans!
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., an influential climate activist, tells me: "Without the clean energy and climate investments, the United States won't be on track to cut carbon emissions in half by 2030. We will be way off track and have no plan to limiting warming to the degree that's necessary"
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Joe Manchin has taken more money from oil and gas than any other member of Congress in the last year. Now, he's condemned our kids and grandkids to a worse future. Just as the oil and gas companies hoped he would.
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This supreme court decision is not a blow to environmentalists or climate activists. It’s a blow to all life on Earth.
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Kagan *does not hold back* in her dissent:
“Whatever else this Court may know about it, it doesn’t have a clue about how to address climate change. And let’s say the obvious: The stakes are high.”
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