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Jan 27, 2025 | 
revkin.substack.com | Julio Friedmann
Overshoot is a word to get comfortable with. If you missed my conversation with a batch of climate scientists who recently wrote a paper pushing back against misuse of “tipping points” and “1.5 degrees C,” please click back here. Sustain What is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
revkin.substack.com | Andrew Dessler |Julio Friedmann
I hope you’ll join my Sustain What webcast Friday, December 6 at 1 p.m. Eastern Time to make sense of the spike, pause and new surge in emissions of methane, the second most important climate-heating greenhouse gas. You’ll glean fresh insights on solutions, as well, and there’ll be some surprises. Paste this post url on your calendar. The viewing info is below. In recent years, I and other journalists have mainly paid attention to emissions of methane from natural gas, oil and coal extraction.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
revkin.substack.com | Julio Friedmann
I hope you’re already following ’s Substack effort to delineate what he calls “The Work” of building an energy and resource future that also mitigates the global heating challenge.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
revkin.substack.com | Mekala Krishnan |Julio Friedmann
Here’s the podcast version of my “Watchwords” conversation with Mekala Krishnan, the lead author of a recent McKinsey Global Institute report, “The hard stuff: Navigating the physical realities of the energy transition.” I use the term watchwords to highlight terms or phrases that too often confuse more than clarify.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
revkin.substack.com | Julio Friedmann
I’ve been focused mainly on posting on social media since Hurricane Helene swept inland and catastrophic flooding devastated dozens of communities, large and small, particularly in rugged, corrugated, Appalachian landscapes like those in western North Carolina. The death count of 205 (sure to continue rising) makes this the deadliest hurricane to hit the U.S. mainland since Katrina in 2005.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
revkin.substack.com | Julio Friedmann
I’ve been focused mainly on posting on social media since Hurricane Helene swept inland and catastrophic flooding devastated dozens of communities, large and small, particularly in rugged, corrugated, Appalachian landscapes like those in western North Carolina. The death count of 205 (sure to continue rising) makes this the deadliest hurricane to hit the U.S. mainland since Katrina in 2005.
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Feb 7, 2024 | 
illuminem.com | Julio Friedmann
Green finance was a particular new focus this year. Huge pavilions were dedicated to climate finance and energy transition. Banks and governments spend days discussing new forms of partnerships. Deal flow was everywhere, including a fund for electric buses in India backed with US investment. In part, this reflects both the COP Presidency and the host nation. Dr. Sultan Al Jaber is at his heart a businessman.
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Nov 30, 2023 | 
ted.com | Julio Friedmann
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Nov 5, 2023 | 
linkedin.com | Julio Friedmann
Dr. James Hansen & his co-authors published this new paper last week, suggesting that the world will reach 1.5°C warming before 2030. This has launched a lot of discussion, ranging from questions on the quality of the science in the paper to pure doom-scrolling surrender. I find these responses puzzling. After all, if we reach 1.5°C in 2027, 2031, or 2035 it’s still bad.
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Aug 11, 2023 | 
msn.com | Julio Friedmann
About the author: Julio Friedmann is chief scientist at Carbon Direct. Amid all the grim news about wildfires and other disasters exacerbated by a warming climate, there is room for optimism. Today, there are dozens of companies across the globe willing to build systems to capture carbon from and permanently store it. Their rise has been hastened by the passage of new laws in the U.S., Canada, Europe, China, and elsewhere.
