{"id":1230,"date":"2022-01-29T18:24:53","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T18:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=1230"},"modified":"2022-01-29T18:28:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T18:28:00","slug":"climate-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=1230","title":{"rendered":"Climate solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Saul Griffith is an Aussie engineer living and working in California.  He&#8217;s written a clear-eyed book about a possible way through the climate emergency, keeping things to +2 degrees C, and it goes like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>electrify everything with solar and wind<\/li><li>start now<\/li><li>keep a little nuclear for evening things out, although we probably won&#8217;t use it<\/li><li>a bit of R&amp;D into blue-sky solutions like fusion, because the payoff will be big, but don&#8217;t rely on it<\/li><li>remove regulatory impediments, fossil-fuel subsidies, buy the stranded assets for (average profit + a small margin), &#8230; non-technical tweaks to law, finance<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Unlike most of this literature, he backs it up with numbers.  It&#8217;s like talking to Paul Mathews; arguments based on data, with charts to make it comprehensible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The short version is at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.otherlab.com\/blog-posts\/how-do-we-decarbonize\">https:\/\/www.otherlab.com\/blog-posts\/how-do-we-decarbonize<\/a>.  The longer version is in a book I found at the library, &#8220;Electrify&#8221;: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rewiringamerica.org\/electrify-the-book\">https:\/\/www.rewiringamerica.org\/electrify-the-book<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s doable.  First thing I&#8217;ve seen that makes me think so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saul Griffith is an Aussie engineer living and working in California. He&#8217;s written a clear-eyed book about a possible way through the climate emergency, keeping things to +2 degrees C, and it goes like this: electrify everything with solar and wind start now keep a little nuclear for evening things out, although we probably won&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1230"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1232,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions\/1232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}