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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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I'll note that the key thing on the expenses here — much of the spending benefits tenants at the expense of landlords. Shifting the balance of power in favor of tenants has been a big part of the Mamdani campaign.

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At Colorado’s first Youth Climate Summit, the leaders of tomorrow learn the skills to fight climate change

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As a warming planet delivers more extreme weather, experts warn that the Trump administration is dismantling the government’s disaster capabilities.

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Sorry on the source; they got an exclusive interview here.

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The paper is here

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Stripping hundreds of millions of dollars from renewable energy and efficiency initiatives is part of a broader move to undo efforts to wean the United States off fossil fuels.

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Those of us who care about climate change need to get off the mat and get back to work. There is still much we can do.

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The firings of nearly a dozen people in the State Department’s Office of Global Change include the last U.S. climate negotiators.

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