Climate, energy, emerging tech, resilience, & policy professor. Carnegie Mellon Univ. Institute for Energy Innovation Director. Former Biden-Harris White House OSTP Chief Advisor for the Clean Energy Transition. Personal account. He/Him. costasamaras.com
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One fun facts about GWPs: those passionately arguing for 20-year GWPs over 100-year GWPs probably would not passionately argue for a 7% discount rate over a 3% discount rate (and might, correctly, think 3% is too high for long-lasting societal risks) yet mathematically these are almost the same
I'd appreciate if you quite my actual statement here, which is that methane has a lifetime of around 10 years, not a climate impact of 10 years. I show the actual climate impact of methane (using the latest calibrated constrained FaIR model tuned the IPCC AR6 parameter range):
There are a lot of things I disagree with in the DWW piece about midtransition, which I don't think he actually understands. One, he erases @shastingssimon.bsky.social in crediting mistransition. 1/
Spoke with William Hennigan about POTUS's threat to attack Iran's "Electric Generating Plants."
"[T]he president’s categorical statement represents a threat to target even civilian objects regardless of the requirement for distinction, which would be a war crime."
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/o...
