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Natural gas produces more net global warming than coal
“Natural gas actually produces more global warming in almost every case than coal.”
Driving a Tesla on the US East Coast actively hurts the climate
“If you drive a Tesla and you live in the East Coast of the United States, statistically speaking, you're hurting the climate, not helping it.”
Global temperatures will rise for a century even if emissions stop
“It turns out if you stopped all emissions on day one, the climate will continue to drift, drift upwards for about a hundred years. I have written a bunch of papers on global warming. I've done this calculation. Other people have done this calculation. You know…”
Modern high-speed trains in Europe and Asia effectively operate autonomously
“Well, many modern train systems are autonomous for all intents and purposes. They will have humans on board as a safety or a backup feature, but when you have modern trains, by which I don't mean any train in the United States, I'm afraid, but if you have the …”
First-year methane warming impact is 120 times higher than CO2
“Methane, on the first year you spill it, it's a 120 times higher global warming impact than CO₂.”
Emitted atmospheric carbon dioxide persists for roughly 20,000 years
“So, when you emit CO₂, it stays in the atmosphere for a really long time. Thousands of years. Tens of thousands of years. People argue, but you wouldn't be totally wrong by saying there was a 20,000 year lifespan.”
Myhrvold left a postdoc with Stephen Hawking to build a startup
“Took a leave of absence to work on a project I had started in graduate school with some friends. And that project turned into a software company, and I became the CEO of the company. And Then Microsoft bought the company, and I was at Microsoft.”