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U.S. greenhouse gas emissions rose by 6.2% in 2021 : NPR

We're going to continue to see such reports coupled with hand wringing and pleas to do better, but we won't.  The math is pretty clear for anyone wanting to be realistic.

I don't want to hear about annual numbers, after the complete train wreck that was 2020. I want to hear about how the number relates to 2019. 

But it's a lot easier to talk about how big of an increase something is when you're referring to an absolute outlier of a year where people basically shut down most travel and commuting. 

Yes, one single GFCI outlet can serve the entire circuit as long as it's placed first in-line.  So the outdoor outlets might appear to be normal, but in reality they're protected by another outlet somewhere further upstream-- in the garage, for example, which is exactly where mine is as well.

always fun when you first go into a house and a circuit doesn't work.  Figure out which breaker controls the circuit if not labeled.  Then seeing it isn't tripped and wonder what is wrong.  Ultimately it turns out to be a GFI in the garage behind the refrigerator which you spent a ridiculous amount of time trying to find. 

Golf, the one place where you can drink beer at 8am and not be judged for it.  Which could be why I golf.

you would also like fishing from a boat

It helps.

I watched Don't Look Up over the weekend.

Not really all that impressed, to be honest. My wife hated it and went to bed halfway through.

I kinda get how they may have created it as a parallel to climate change, and agree with 94 that it's better as a mirror to hold up to our pandemic response, but in all honesty it doesn't work for either of those.

• If climate change is potentially going to spiral out of control into an extinction-level event, or if it will destabilize world food production and geopolitical balances such that it leads to tremendous war and strife, either way it's not a single definable event. It's something that will progress over decades. So it doesn't make sense to look at it like a planet-killer comet.
• If the pandemic happened to be a MUCH worse disease, such as what was discussed in the book The End of October, then it might be interesting. But then our response would have also been much different than it was, where we aren't having stupid debates about masks because of a disease that's largely benign to roughly 99% of those who get it. COVID, for all its trouble, isn't an extinction-level event either.

There were some funny moments, but it overall seemed like it missed the mark.

That was disappointing, because I was really looking forward to it, and it didn't deliver.

Yeah, this was basically my opinion as well.  They were (obviously, bluntly) depicting the stereotypical archetypes for the political parties and various business interests-- essentially limited to evil Republicans and corporations choosing profit over public welfare-- and that was the extent of their attempt at establishing parallels to be drawn to climate change (or, the pandemic response).

But it was just so ham-handed that it didn't land as satire or a thoughtful exploration of motivation and choice, rather those parts of the movie just came across as a blunt and poorly researched hatchet job of a political opponent.

I did laugh at a lot of the social media and pop culture stuff they poked fun at. Some of it-- probably too much of it-- rang true.

I don't know if I'm particularly keen on the genre,  but I do love Dr. Strangelove.  That movie was a masterpiece.