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It's not obviously related to Climate Change of course, and it's well made, good dialogue and acting, I'd give it a solid B as movies go.  It's depressingly funny.

I bet most don't get any CC angle to it at all.

A few parts are stupid, like the first effort to deflect the comet which suddenly turns upside down on launch.  And the effort was manned, for no reason I could discern.

up to 5 above here

sunny and little wind

a fine January morning

Top Golf knockoff - Great Shot was open in Sioux Falls SD until 1am this morning

I imagine the temp was around 3 below

I'd need a healthy discount, those heaters can only do so much

Nebraska’s financial report to the NCAA for the 2021 fiscal year provides a look at the extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted business operations, and also at the way in which the athletic department was able to weather a year-plus with no fans in stands.

The department reported $92 million in revenue for fiscal 2021, which spanned July 1, 2020, to June 30, 2021, approximately $41.5 million less than 2020 and more than $44.1 million off its high-water mark in 2019, according to a copy of the report obtained via records request by the Journal Star.

The biggest driver for that decrease, of course, was the almost entire lack of fan presence during that 12-month period.

In most years, football alone drives more than $30 million in ticket revenue and another $5 million in concessions, merchandising and other gameday-related revenue. Overall in FY 2020, the department reported $38.1 million in ticket revenue and $5.9 million in concessions and merchandising.

In fiscal 2021, with the Big Ten limiting attendance to family only, the entire athletic department did $706,138 in ticket revenue. About $384,000 of that came from the spring baseball season, $302,000 from football and the rest from softball and soccer.

NU was also able to trim expenses from $124.1 million in FY 2019, the last year fully uninterrupted by the pandemic, to $104.1 million in 2021.

I’ve probably stated this before but I work for a very large chemical co. Not oil and gas, but we do make a lot of hydrocarbons. We burn a lot of fossil fuels to make these. The company acknowledges that CC is real, and they do a lot of talk about sustainability etc but as far as I can tell we really do nothing other than manipulate numbers, do small, non-commercial demos of cleaner energy/green energy with much hype and fan fare, etc. 

For example, sometimes we’ll sell off a unit or business due to economic reasons, and then the very next quarter you’ll hear them say they decreased emissions from that site by the exact number that the old unit makes. The emissions are still being produced, just not by our company. Often times we’ll still own a percentage of the unit, but we won’t get hit with the numbers. 

The one area we do care about is actual pollution. Not green house gasses, or GHG as known in the biz. When a new unit is built they are putting in way more equipment to reduce the pollution like a SCR in the top of fired equipment to reduce the NOx and other pollutants. 

But I swallowed that red pill about how much my company really cares about the environment and climate change a long time ago. The reality of it is we either need to invent new technology that will replace what we gain by burning fossil fuels, or revert to living like we’re in the late 1800’s, or just accept the consequences for CC while we incrementally improve our technology and slowly reduce GHG. 

I''ve noted before how most of the efforts I've seen are bandaids for PR purposes.  I saw the same types of accounting where I worked.  Exxon likes to run commercials on stuff so they can appear to be going green, things like algae have known major issues, but they run with it as if it's a thing.  It isn't.

If we had a serious plan to replace coal with nuclear, I'd start to get interested.  You need to find the biggest bang for the buck and hit that, obviously, but we don't, we're mired in PR, the movie Don't Look Up touched on this, but not as well as they could have.

To me, it's ALL imagery, entirely, and not a serious effort to do anything substantial because that is impossible in practical terms.  Bandaids.