Written by Gavin Schmidt whose career has been defined by heading one of the long-term temperature measurement projects

Edit: auto-correct gave me something other than “measurement” so fixed it.

It’s probably some years off; there’s something of a roadmap on how to do it, but crossbreeding it in takes quite a few years, and something like CRISPR usually means a lot of testing of the engineered variety.

It’s better to make that clear before people build houses, and conditions can change so that places which were previously not too high a risk are now high-risk.

They’re probably more afraid that Trump will burn the company down.

Yes, it’s just some colors. If you can’t handle a picture with some colors, you’ve got a problem.

I’m guessing a reference to a Derecho

I didn’t find either group on social media. Real groups have some other way to reach them.

Pick an activity. I’m into the outdoors, so looked at local Sierra Club chapters and cycling clubs. Joined a couple. Met a lot of people.

Haven’t done it using an app. Pick an activity. Find a club that does it. Meet in person

That and bitcoin mining

There are two different parts to that:

1. What was the ignition source, which is currently unknown
2. What caused it to go from a tiny fire to a huge fire very quickly, which is the result of having a couple of fairly wet years, followed by a very dry year, combined with hot dry winds. A warming world is in part responsible for those conditions.

That’s long been true for a chunk of the population. It’s not enough to explain the trend

Only way to find those people is to get out and interact though

Some level of socializing is important though; you end up with a not-very-functional society without it

You can do a potluck cheaply at someone’s home. It’s that people don’t

I don’t think he really cared much; it’s more that Trump got a billion-dollar bribe from the fossil fuels industry.

I’d go into it with a plan for the following:

• retrofit insulation & windows
• replace gas heating with a heat pump
• electrical system upgrades
• Solar
• storage battery

Musk doesn’t care much about that; he’s more interested in hate for nonwhites and women.

There are designs intended for installation on urban buildings, but so far, they’ve not proved to be a more cost-effective spend than rooftop solar; there are really huge economies of scale which generally mean that it makes more sense to have community ownership of one big turbine somewhere.

It’s within the range where a lot of people understand it. The goal when interacting with a straight-up denier is not usually to convince them — it’s to give space for the people watching the conversation to reject them.