It probably takes more than that; for example, when whale oil become uncompetitive for lighting because kerosene was cheaper, the whalers started turning it into margarine.
It’s not just that; residential rooftop in the US is about 4x the cost of doing it in other countries, and would be cost-competitive with utility-scale if it was as cheap as it is elsewhere.
That might just result in a boom in billionaire bunkers, rather than any kind of systematic attempt at solving the underlying problem.
It’s definitely possible to get a lot this way. It probably can’t do enough, fast enough, on its own though — it will take government forcing the transiation to happen. Otherwise, we’ll get the energy equivalent of whale blubber being turned into margarine in order to keep the whaling industry profitable.
I’m very very hesitant to believe in most online reviews; the product manufactures pay for a lot of them.
What people actually have are vests filled with ice. Knew a couple of people who were canvassing in the Arizona heat wearing them.
There are a fair number which won’t; “mobile” homes are not designed to the same durability standard that a permanent home is. That’s reasonable for an RV that actually needs to move from location to location, but means you’re taking significant added risk for one which sits forever in one place.
The problem here isn’t that models are wrong or inadequate, but that FEMA, for political reasons, has based its maps and risk estimates on historical averages, and those don’t adequately capture the change we’ve had, or relatively low-probability events.
Sure you can. It’s a matter of using modeling to estimate its probability and then planning around it. Californians have done a planning exercise around a storm somewhat worse than the 1860-1861 storm sequence for exactly this kind of reason.
Every country needs to go to zero emissions, and Brazil is big enough to matter. Its fossil fuel use has been modest, but deforestion can tip the Amazon from a rain forest into a dry savanna, killing off all the trees, and releasing the carbon they presently sequester.
By the time people like you and I are totally sick of a topic, it’s just starting to break through into mainstream consciousness.
Kinda sorta; you’d still have some probability of a storm developing, so what they’re doing is comparing simulated weather weather in worlds with and without the added greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and asking “how likely is this to happen” and seeing that there are differences between the two situations.
Specific methodology for different parts of the rapid-attribution study are linked from here
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The fossil fuels industry has been able to buy enough power to block most action. We did get the Inflation Reduction Act, as well as other executive-branch actions in the past few years though.. It’s not yet enough, but if we can attain just a touch more political power, it’ll be possible to do a lot more.
FEMA is in fact offering people up to $750 in immediate aid if they’ve lost wages or housing in the hurricane, so people have the ability to accept that. They’re not taking peoples’ houses or anything; it’s pretty much no-strings-attached for Americans taking it.
Large-scale tree planting can remove some CO2 from the atmosphere, but nowhere near as much as humans add by extracting and burning fossil fuels. See https://skepticalscience.com/1-trillion-trees-impact.html for a detailed assessment of what this looks like.
Checking is hard when phones and electricity are out.
I’m taking this down because it’s a basically a weather question.
A lot of boreal forest does need low-intensity fire. This spaces trees out and prevents fuel accumulation so that the trees largely survive.
If you let things go, you end up killing all the seeds in the soil when an intense fire comes through, and depending on whether the local microclimate has changed, and what seed sources are actually available, you can end up with a very different plant community.
If you want to keep that from happening, it takes regular application of thinning and prescribed burns.