The Glazer family is worth $10B & our media is writing fawning articles about them donating 0.001% of that Wealth tax now
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers announced the donation in an X post on Saturday after the hurricane left devastating impacts across Tampa Bay.
It’s also true that while we’re building new things we’ve also failed / temporarily given up on structural reforms. I see the “toxic positivity” problem as a desire to reframe massive political compromise as a win. Unfortunately the folks that forced that compromise are playing a different game.
Two things to note here. First, attribution for Hurricane Harvey (with similar direct damages) found that human-caused climate change was responsible for about 75% of the costs ($67B out of $90B). Second, direct costs are only about 10% of total costs, which play out over years and even decades.
Fossil-fueled Hurricane Helene may be the costliest ever to hit the country with initial estimates of $95-110 billion in damages, in addition to the hundreds killed and communities wiped out. www.inc.com/reuters/hurr...
Before hitting Georgia, Tennessee and the Carolinas, Helene landed over Florida as a Category 4 hurricane.
Yay, Jenny’s on Bluesky! If you enjoyed this thread, it’s very likely you’ll enjoy her book too, and it’s one of the most cost-effective ways I know to develop a good intuition about how energy markets work (with a strong focus on solar, obvs). Really insight-dense book (and surprisingly funny!) 💯
so they removed the barriers because the barriers were working
I’ve never forgotten that Mass Ave had good bike infrastructure that got removed because drivers were slamming into barriers (instead of striking bicycles) at such speeds that people kept rolling their cars: www.bostonglobe.com/2020/12/19/m...
The city quickly removed barriers that were installed to improve dangerous cycling conditions.
The vibes on day one of climate week are kinda off the charts! It might be too early to say definitively but i think there’s 3-4x the number of people interested in every function than what there’s actual capacity for. Truly wild to be at a climate happy hour packed tighter than a Vegas nightclub.
What is the oddest/most obscure conversion factor you have memorized because it is handy in your line of work (and why)? Mine: 1 kilowatt-hour (kWh) = 3,412 British thermal units (Btus), because for some reason we Americans discuss fuel costs in $/million Btus & power plant heat rates in Btu/kWh.