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Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.

As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades: Graph of temperature as observed with significant warming, and simulated without added greenhouse gases and other anthropogentic changes, which shows no significant warming

How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world: IPCC AR6 Figure 2 - Thee bar charts: first chart: how much each gas has warmed the world. About 1C of total warming. Second chart: about 1.5C of total warming from well-mixed greenhouse gases, offset by 0.4C of cooling from aerosols and negligible influence from changes to solar output, volcanoes, and internal variability. Third chart: about 1.25C of warming from CO2, 0.5C from methane, and a bunch more in small quantities from other gases. About 0.5C of cooling with large error bars from SO2.

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The hidden toll taken by tropical storms. Many more people die in the aftermath of a storm than governments track. (www.theverge.com)
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UK “Green levies” are making heat pumps more expensive | Heat pump takeup in the UK is extremely low. But there's a simple way to reduce running costs for those that make the switch. (www.newstatesman.com)
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Vance Wiggles Out Of Saying Whether Climate Change Is Real (talkingpointsmemo.com)
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For context:

And additional CO₂ people have dumped into the atmosphere is the biggest cause:

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Trump continues to deny climate crisis as he visits hurricane-ravaged Georgia (www.theguardian.com)
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In Australia, a New Way to Avoid Decommissioning Oil Fields: Call Them Carbon Capture Projects (drilled.media)
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The People Fleeing Climate Disasters Are Going to Transform the American South (www.nytimes.com)
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Record heat makes for a sweltering start to October in the West (www.nbcnews.com)
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As the waters rise, a two-year sentence for throwing soup. That’s the farcical reality of British justice (www.theguardian.com)
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What Are National Borders When the Land They Are Drawn On Melts? (www.splinter.com)
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Climate change may have caused as much as 50% more rainfall during Hurricane Helene in some parts of Georgia and the Carolinas (drive.google.com)
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Great illustration on the total amount of coal burned in the UK (sopuli.xyz)
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Source

Just imagine burning up the top 7.5cm of ground in the whole world. The whole atmosphere would be covered in a thick cloud of smoke.

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Bankrolling the Burn: Why Climate Scientists are Taking on Fossil Fuel Financiers (blog.ucsusa.org)
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Private equity firms ploughing billions into fossil fuels, analysis reveals (www.theguardian.com)
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Is the idea of a “climate haven” under water? As Helene tragically showed, even places semi-shielded from heat and drought can fall prey to intensifying downpours and disastrous floods. (yaleclimateconnections.org)
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EPA Says It Plans to Withdraw Approval for Chevron’s Plastic-Based Fuels That Are Likely to Cause Cancer (www.propublica.org)
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Hurricane Helene Proves There Are No Climate Havens (newrepublic.com)
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Texas woman honors postal worker husband who lost his life due to extreme heat (slrpnk.net)
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The man in charge of UK Labour’s green energy dream: ‘It’s at the limit of what’s achievable’ (www.theguardian.com)
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Study finds about 40% of public supports rationing measures to fight climate change (phys.org)
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The states where climate progress is on the ballot [WA, MN] | Getting laws passed is one thing. Protecting them from Republican opposition is another. (grist.org)
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Enough, already: why humanity must get on board with the concept of ‘sufficiency’ (theconversation.com)
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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13842896

Humanity’s rapacious consumption is more than Earth and its climate can handle, which is driving an ecological crisis.

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Cities unprepared for impact of climate change, says report (phys.org)
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S. Korea dune merchant, 72, held over sand mining in Indonesia mangrove forest (news.mongabay.com)
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MAKASSAR, Indonesia — Indonesian authorities have arrested a 72-year-old South Korean national for allegedly running a sand quarrying operation in a protected forest area in West Sulawesi province. The incident marks a rare instance of a foreign citizen charged with environmental crimes in the world’s largest archipelagic country.

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Making the cutest zero carbon city (www.youtube.com)
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Helene left at least 119 people dead and communities ‘wiped off the map.’ Now, survivors are struggling to get food and water | CNN (www.cnn.com)
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