Chris Wilke

Global Water & Climate Consultant; former Waterkeeper Alliance & Puget Soundkeeper; Bassist; Skipper @ s/v Blue Heron; Crazed Flyfisher; exDog Dad #ActOnClimate

[Sean Casten @SeanCasten]

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is really bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: https://t.co/kbWZ0barjC

[Chris Wilke @SkeeperChris]

@KitsapTransit you left me stranded in the rain.

Your 186 driver did not pick up any waiting passengers at southworth 7:55pm

Last bus of the day. In the rain. At night.

The driver apparently did the same thing to someone last night according to a WSF employee.

Response?

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Elon Musk, the richest guy in the world, is going after USAID, which feeds the poorest people in the world.

Next, he’ll go after the programs that impact you: Medicaid, Medicare, community health centers, Pell Grants, affordable housing.

We can stop him.

[Chris Wilke @SkeeperChris]

@Sambandet @ClimateDad77 This chart is debunked & irrelevant to current discussions. Anyone still using it is just dense. Sorry but it's true.

Most of that graph is unsurvivable for modern humans +most animals & plants alive today. No one serious believes that upper ranges are desirable.

Try another...

[Chris Wilke @SkeeperChris]

@TaylorGrimesDog @ClimateDad77 Look at per capita emissions. Otherwise size of country skews this comparison. It's like crime rate per 100,000 ppl. Much more useful than total # to target problems.

USA, Canada, Australia, Saudi Arabia among worst.

India is less than 1/2 global average despite recent growth.

[Chris Wilke @SkeeperChris]

@copenhenken @UNFCCC @EuCyclistsFed @EUClimateAction @PATHwalkcycle @COP26 @COP29_AZ @COP30Amazonia @WRIRossCities @wef I think it could be 25% in some developed countries, but closer to 15% globally. (IPCC 2021)

[Chris Wilke @SkeeperChris]

@janrosenow Impressive. Need to take out hydropower though. Not clean, not green. Arguably not renewable, given the impacts. Emits methane and destroys food security, ecosystem resilience, biodiversity and carbon sequestration.

[Jamie Henn @jamieclimate]

This DOE report sounds like bad news for LNG exports.

The industry will try and spin this as "no big deal," but early reporting suggests that the DOE found that exports:

1. Drive up costs
2. Hurt communities
3. Pollute the Climate

Here's why that matters 🧵

[Chris Wilke @SkeeperChris]

Oil and gas companies are using higher energy prices to push for new projects but there is not an energy shortage. We have just added wind & solar capacity +improved efficiencies. Many new projects are for exports & do nothing for energy security or lower domestic energy prices.

[Tzeporah Berman @Tzeporah]

The overproduction of LNG is pushing us to the brink of disaster.

The hunger for cheap fuel at any cost is a deep sickness. It’s a race to the bottom that will prove economically ruinous and environmentally devastating.

https://t.co/RmeR9nqCkU

[Chris Wilke @SkeeperChris]

@dhp180 @Rail_splitter1 @GrantCardone It’s not a conspiracy just because you add a ? mark. It’s actually public information, because Biden, like all other candidates since 1976, shared his tax returns.

Something you-know-who has refused to do.

[Chris Wilke @SkeeperChris]

@LivingColour @vurnt22 @vurnt22 is one of the best people remaining on X. Great story! Keep the love!❤️

[Chris Wilke @SkeeperChris]

@THTGTruth @RussellSeitz @ryankatzrosene in 1985 perhaps, but we have been guzzling the "poison" at increasing levels ever since, without a pause. The effects are clearly worsening & will soon be intolerable or unsurvivable.
Meanwhile the "cure" is within reach & involves far less sacrifice.
Metaphor does not hold.

[Chris Wilke @SkeeperChris]

@ryankatzrosene This is definitely a weird phenomenon, but it tracks.

[Chris Wilke @SkeeperChris]

#Fascism is on the march

Elon Musk publicized the names of government employees he wants to cut. It’s terrifying federal workers | CNN Business https://t.co/Xsh4T3CyRo

[Chris Wilke @SkeeperChris]

@themildperil @ryankatzrosene What you describe is runaway CC. I don’t think we are close to it. The truth is bad enough.

To your point, we still have to stop burning fossil fuels to reach net 0. Aerosols, or no aerosols.

Aerosol effect is real & removal shock is real, but haven’t seen basis for 50% claim.

[Chris Wilke @SkeeperChris]

@themildperil @ryankatzrosene 50%? Please send pertinent links to aerosol masking from fossil fuels (post maritime emissions reduction)

This also underscores need for methodical, ambitious & sustained FF reductions, no? Rather than hoping for a future tech/mkt breakthrough (shock inducing if slope too steep)

[Chris Wilke @SkeeperChris]

@themildperil @ryankatzrosene Being realistic:
Most anthropogenic warming is caused by fossil fuels.
Warming on current track will kill us & much of the planet if we let it.
Any approach that imagines a market solution without a precise, aggressive and mandatory phaseout will not work. Zero chance of success.

[Chris Wilke @SkeeperChris]

@themildperil @ryankatzrosene Who said anything about abrupt? I think we can both agree there is a near zero chance of a precipitous drop of fossil fuels. But, we need to set a target through trade agreements & govt regulation going beyond incentivizing alternatives (this then provides its own incentive).

[Chris Wilke @SkeeperChris]

@themildperil @ryankatzrosene Which is why we need to shift the focus to shutting down fossil fuels

[Chris Wilke @SkeeperChris]

@MattWollenb @ryankatzrosene Exactly☝️ …and amid much celebration on EV rollout and RE installations.

I am not against EVs or RE but it doesn’t slow climate change until we start to shut down FF extraction, and we are motivated to doing that.