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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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How Americans View Climate Change and Policies to Address the Issue (www.pewresearch.org)
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Diamonds can now be created from scratch in the lab in 15 minutes (www.earth.com)
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Big Tech wants massive amounts of energy to fuel their AI ambitions. That could strain utilities, ratepayers, and efforts to decarbonize the grid. (www.canarymedia.com)
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This county has an ambitious climate agenda. That's not easy in Florida. (grist.org)
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Car tires shed a quarter of all microplastics in the environment. Urgent action is needed (phys.org)
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Electric cars are not THE solution.

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Bovaer: What is the cattle feed additive and why is it leading to shoppers pouring milk down the toilet? | UK News (news.sky.com)
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Three-Quarters of Earth’s Land Got Drier in Recent Decades, U.N. Says | Human-caused global warming helped increase dry conditions everywhere | talks on halting desertification in Saudi Arabia (www.nytimes.com)
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New compact SUVs now create less pollution, on average, than sedans, thanks to the rapid rise of small electric SUVs. (wapo.st)
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The picture would of course look very different if manufacturers had chosen to make smaller inexpensive electric sedans.

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‘A Valuable And Generous Ally’: How Exxon and Atlas Network Worked to Block Global Climate Action (www.desmog.com)
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Three-quarters of Earth’s land became permanently drier in last three decades: UN (www.unccd.int)
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"I built a fossil fuel funfair to annoy fossil fuel marketers" - Oli Frost (www.youtube.com)
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Eating less meat ‘like taking 8m cars off road’ (www.bbc.com)
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These six charts tell the story of Australia's (slow) progress on climate change (www.abc.net.au)
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Biden's Energy Department races to get cleantech money out before Trump takes office (grist.org)
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How a Never-Ending Home Renovation Project Is Fighting Climate Change | Forrest Meggers, a professor at Princeton University, has turned his home into a live-in sustainability laboratory (www.nytimes.com)
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As climate focus shifts to states, East Coast partnership offers multi-state collaboration model (mainemorningstar.com)
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Who’s behind one of the major accounts promoting climate denialism on X? (www.motherjones.com)
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A $400 Billion Clean Energy Program Is Racing to Get Money Out the Door (www.nytimes.com)
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How many species could go extinct from climate change? It depends on how hot it gets. (www.npr.org)
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Figure 1 from the paper

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Why so many Americans prefer sprawl to walkable neighborhoods (wapo.st)
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This article has significant interactive elements which are broken on archive sites. Actually accessing the content means registering so you can take advantage of the gift link

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In Mexico, Heat Waves Are Even Killing Younger Adults | More than three-quarters of heat-related deaths in Mexico occurred among people younger than 35 (www.nytimes.com)
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The paper is here

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Another Way to Keep Food Out of the Trash | Mette Lykke leads Too Good to Go, which operates in 19 countries to reduce waste and make surplus food accessible. (www.nytimes.com)
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The Climate Risk to the Mortgage System | Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which backstop most U.S. mortgages, know floods and fires are a growing problem. But little action has been taken. (www.nytimes.com)
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Plastic Pollution and Policy Considerations: Frequently Asked Questions (www.everycrsreport.com)
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For a Thing That Will Supposedly Fix the Climate, AI Sure Needs a Lot of Fossil Fuels (www.splinter.com)
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