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I was lucky enough to attend an amazing event yesterday - the launch of Environmental Defense Fund's MethaneSAT at the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. This is key part of an effort to curb methane emissions - a critical part of mitigating climate change. Data from MethaneSAT will answer three questions about methane emissions from oil and gas production, livestock, landfills and more: 1) Where are the methane emissions occurring? 2) How much methane is being emitted? 3) How do these emissions change over time? You can't manage what you can't measure, and EDF has taken a giant step forward with measurement here. The data, including and the calibration and analysis algorithms will be made public. This radical transparency means there is nowhere to hide - a powerful tool to effect global change. And on a personal level, I got to brush up on my molecular spectroscopy (I finished my DPhil at Oxford 25 years ago this year!). 2nu3 vibration absorption band of CH4 at 1.6 microns in case you are following along at home.. Bravo to Fred Krupp, Steven Hamburg Mark S. Brownstein Steven Wofsy and the many many others for an amazing accomplishment. And to Lise Strickler and Mark G. and Three Cairns Group, and the other supporters for making this all possible. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/e--U7VA2

The fight against climate change continues to break down barriers and transcend borders! I was thrilled to learn about a groundbreaking initiative by the Environmental Defence Fund (EDF) - the launch of MethaneSAT, a revolutionary space satellite designed to monitor methane emissions around the globe with unprecedented precision. Launching later this year, MethaneSAT will be the first satellite dedicated solely to detecting methane. The collected data will be accessible for free through MethaneSAT's website and even integrable with Google Earth!!!!! This will empower all of us to visualize methane emissions and track progress towards reduction efforts. This project exemplifies how cutting-edge technology can be harnessed to tackle global challenges. The partnership of this project involves the most advanced research centres and technology companies in the world. If you would like to learn more, check out the following links: Explanation video: https://lnkd.in/eZZfRVga MethaneSAT website: https://lnkd.in/e3uT-kWD Google Earth & Sustainability: https://lnkd.in/eEwekc7K #MethaneSAT #ClimateAction #EnvironmentalInnovation #SpaceTechnology #EDF

After carbon dioxide and methane, nitrous oxide is the most consequential greenhouse gas humans are releasing into the atmosphere. But we do have the knowledge and many technologies needed to reverse the trend. UMCES Professor Eric Davidson helps explain the challenges and ways to reduce emissions in @The Conversation. https://lnkd.in/esdSmg6A

My answer to "How did you spend the Pandemic?" - I was knee-deep in the development of a nitrous oxide pathway for use in the GREET model. Controlled-release fertilizers, particularly from manure sources, are a key to not only controlling N2O emissions, but also increasing nitrogen security. Nitrogen creation that isn't fossil fuel dependent? Win-win. Glean renewable energy off of that biomass before it gets recycled into an improved-source of nitrogen? Win-win-win.

Still glowing from two big professional milestones accomplished over the past week here. First, we pulled off another great Netroots Nation conference in Chicago last week! Near-record attendance of about 3,000 ... I was privileged to lead all the conference's volunteers again, and also do two training sessions on ethical list growth and email strategy. (Also had some fun brewing ahead of time, and delivering, some very well-received gifts for Netroots' bigger sponsors. Did any of y'all out there get to enjoy those?) I simply cannot say enough about the dedication of the Netroots volunteers, who always step up to fearlessly and awesomely handle any weird challenge I throw at them ... as well as the amazing staff I get to work with every year, who somehow (with very limited resources) keep America's biggest conference for progressive activists running smoothly year after year while still having some fun along the way. Second, this morning I've now offically graduated from the Terra.do Learning For Action Program, an intense 12-week program covering the full climate change landscape -- science, economics, policy, and climate justice, and a lot more. (Bison cohort represent!) https://terra.do/ ....ask me about gigatons of CO2 equivalent, microgrids, scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions, or anything else climate-related now! (TL;DR: we're up the proverbial creek without a paddle if we don't take action on a wide variety of fronts very soon ... but the good news is that clean solar and wind energy are now FAR cheaper than burning fossil energy, so there's considerable hope on the technological front.) Whether in work contexts or otherwise, I look forward to being a more-powerful agent of change for climate action now ... it's by far the defining issue of our time, and a massive debt we cannot in any good or moral conscience leave for our kids to clean up.

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See me struggling in the middle with President Cabrera's last question: can we end with something positive about the state of climate change? I froze and passed the mic while I collected my thoughts. But of course there's plenty to say.  We're developing hydrogen systems, sustainable aviation fuels, carbon capture systems, and smart policies at Georgia Tech, and we have a new Climate Action Plan so that we will "walk the talk", thanks to @JenniferChirico.  @DrawdownGA is tracking the emissions of metros, counties and cities and has identified solutions that could cut this pollution in half. With our 60 Business Compact members, we are becoming a force of change.  The state is about to publish a voluntary course of action; the feds are likely to fund some of it; and practically overnight GA has become a leader in clean tech manufacturing.  So, there is indeed alot to celebrate! 

We should all be thankful to fossil fuels otherwise we would still live in the stone age Instead of waste trillions $ on unstable environment disaster wind and solar energy we should develop fossil fuels and nuclear ☢️ to be cleaner cheaper and more efficient

I'm sure some of us fell for at least one of these: 33 False Claims About Solar, Wind, and Electric Vehicles. "The fossil fuel industry spent $1.4 billion on PR and advertising between 2008 and 2017 alone. In contrast, renewable energy trade associations spent only 7% of that ($98.4 million) in the same period. In this way, untruths have affected our politics and policies explicitly and subliminally, gradually eroding and transforming our cultural perceptions of the climate situation." - Pat Sapinsley Hence, this must-read study by Columbia Law School, which counters many myths that even some in the Climate Tech space have fallen for: https://lnkd.in/eS_j4Cu5 See also Pat Sapinsley's excellent article on Climate Facts vs. Myths: https://lnkd.in/eCadqYrd

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