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We\u2019ll be talking about the flawed concept of \u201ccommitted emissions\u201d and how we should be calculating future emissions instead; we\u2019ll expand that discussion and critique the conflicting stories that we\u2019ve been hearing about the expectations for coal usage and emissions in India; we\u2019ll review some of the efforts to execute so-called \u201cjust transitions\u201d in coal country; we\u2019ll take a little excursion into a recent raging dialogue on Twitter about RCP8.5 which had its genesis in the PhD thesis of our producer, Justin Ritchie, which we explored in <a href=\"https:\/\/xenetwork.org\/ets\/episodes\/episode-49-climate-science-part-5-business-usual\/\">Episode #49<\/a>; we\u2019ll move on from there to discuss the communication challenges around climate change science, and what\u2019s wrong with the kind of hysterical journalism being practiced by writers like David Wallace-Wells in his book <em>The Uninhabitable Earth<\/em>; we\u2019ll take a look at Jon\u2019s latest research on the energy demands of Bitcoin mining; we\u2019ll consider the rapid deployment of utility-scale storage and what that might mean for the future of the grid; we\u2019ll review Jon\u2019s update of global energy intensity data and ask what it all means; and we\u2019ll wrap it up with another look at the energy transition modeling work of Christian Breyer\u2019s team at Lappeenranta University of Technology in Finland, which we explored in <a href=\"https:\/\/xenetwork.org\/ets\/episodes\/episode-95-powering-the-world-with-re\/\">Episode #95<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Koomey returns to the show for another freewheeling discussion about some of the interesting developments over the past year in energy 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