'My Administration is announcing today a temporary pause on pending decisions of Liquefied Natural Gas exports – with the exception of unanticipated and immediate national security emergencies. During this period, we will take a hard look at the impactsof LNG exports on energy costs, America’s energy security, and our environment. This pause on new LNG approvals sees the climate crisis for what it is: the existential threat of our time.
While MAGA Republicans willfully deny the urgency of the climate crisis, condemning the American people to a dangerous future, my Administration will not be complacent. We will not cede to special interests.'
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/01/26/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-decision-to-pause-pending-approvals-of-liquefied-natural-gas-exports/
On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 10:11:43 -0800 (PST), Fred Bloggs
[...]The world will get energy from coal if they can't get NG.
But we can leave our gas in the ground for our future use. Let Japan
and China and India and Germany burn coal. Lots of coal.
On 2024-01-26, john larkin wrote:
On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 10:11:43 -0800 (PST), Fred Bloggs
[...]The world will get energy from coal if they can't get NG.
But we can leave our gas in the ground for our future use. Let Japan
and China and India and Germany burn coal. Lots of coal.
And "we" (the monkeys with computers) need to really figure this energy
mess out, especially if "we" want to stick about.
It's somewhat disheartening that the kids associate "Christmas" with >"rainy"... (noting that as a kid, it was pretty much guaranteed to be
snowy from Thanksgiving to April).
On Monday, January 29, 2024 at 6:40:46?AM UTC-5, Dan Purgert wrote:
On 2024-01-26, john larkin wrote:
On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 10:11:43 -0800 (PST), Fred BloggsAnd "we" (the monkeys with computers) need to really figure this energy
[...]The world will get energy from coal if they can't get NG.
But we can leave our gas in the ground for our future use. Let Japan
and China and India and Germany burn coal. Lots of coal.
mess out, especially if "we" want to stick about.
It's somewhat disheartening that the kids associate "Christmas" with
"rainy"... (noting that as a kid, it was pretty much guaranteed to be
snowy from Thanksgiving to April).
You can always move to Japan. Their mountainous east side abutting the Sea of Japan, regularly gets 5 meters of snow yearly.
On Mon, 29 Jan 2024 11:40:39 -0000 (UTC), Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net>
wrote:
On 2024-01-26, john larkin wrote:
On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 10:11:43 -0800 (PST), Fred Bloggs
[...]The world will get energy from coal if they can't get NG.
But we can leave our gas in the ground for our future use. Let Japan
and China and India and Germany burn coal. Lots of coal.
And "we" (the monkeys with computers) need to really figure this energy >>mess out, especially if "we" want to stick about.
So many people are convinced that a little CO2 will kill all life on
earth, in their short bleak lifetimes. It's a new mass neurosis. If
the heat doesn't kill you, the polar vortex will. Weird.
It's somewhat disheartening that the kids associate "Christmas" with >>"rainy"... (noting that as a kid, it was pretty much guaranteed to be >>snowy from Thanksgiving to April).
Where's that? The NE USA and Canada recently had snow-copalis. There's
still lots on the ground.
On Monday, January 29, 2024 at 6:11:41?AM UTC-8, John Larkin wrote:
So many people are convinced that a little CO2 will kill all life on
earth, in their short bleak lifetimes. It's a new mass neurosis. If
the heat doesn't kill you, the polar vortex will. Weird.
You're conflating climate change with the life-on-earth
issue of species extinctions. Or, do you think that climate change is
a principal causation?
The big human problem that will hurt us soonest, is the unreliability of >traditional water sources. Things like the Ganges running dry for a few summer
months, and of course the ever-popular unprecedented floods.
Lots of early settlements, and familiar place names, are derived from a
water source (lake, river, springfield...) because those were the best
sites for survival. Delaware, for instance, isn't named after the lord
de la Warre, but after the Delaware River (bearing the name of that >expedition-of-discovery sponsor from pre-settlement years).
Water is key. Flush toilets are the technology that makes our cities possible.
On 2024-01-29, John Larkin wrote:
On Mon, 29 Jan 2024 11:40:39 -0000 (UTC), Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net>
wrote:
On 2024-01-26, john larkin wrote:
On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 10:11:43 -0800 (PST), Fred Bloggs
[...]The world will get energy from coal if they can't get NG.
But we can leave our gas in the ground for our future use. Let Japan
and China and India and Germany burn coal. Lots of coal.
And "we" (the monkeys with computers) need to really figure this energy >>>mess out, especially if "we" want to stick about.
So many people are convinced that a little CO2 will kill all life on
earth, in their short bleak lifetimes. It's a new mass neurosis. If
the heat doesn't kill you, the polar vortex will. Weird.
It's somewhat disheartening that the kids associate "Christmas" with >>>"rainy"... (noting that as a kid, it was pretty much guaranteed to be >>>snowy from Thanksgiving to April).
Where's that? The NE USA and Canada recently had snow-copalis. There's
still lots on the ground.
Just off Lake Erie here. Sure we had a few days of wicked cold and
snow, but it's once again green. Been like this easily the last 4-5
years, if not longer.
Know a couple of people who do maple sugaring, and they've been saying
the warm spells are messing with the trees nowadays too ...
I'm certainly not a climate scientist, so maybe this is actually a bit
of a "normal" spell the planet goes through. But we've had more than a
few "environmental crises" since I was a kid:
- acid rain (industry cleaned up, and it's been somewhat solved?)
- ozone layer (stopped using CFCs, and it's been somewhat solved?)
- climate change (ehhh ... )
Is any of that new?
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