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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 goal to keep world’s temperature rise below 1.5 Celsius is “deader than a doornail” (www.motherjones.com)
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Biden inks billion-dollar climate deals to foil Trump rollbacks | The administration is accelerating the approval of large loans for clean technologies that the president-elect attacked in campaign (www.eenews.net)
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Why Being Climate ‘Positive’ Is the Buzzy New Goal of Green Building (www.bloomberg.com)
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Donald Trump Could Blow a Big Hole in New York’s Climate Plan | Offshore wind is crucial to the state’s plans for cleaning up its electric grid, and construction is already behind schedule. (nysfocus.com)
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COP29 Update: A Climate of Failure (www.splinter.com)
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Clean energy tax breaks, pollution rules and America’s participation in the Paris climate agreement could all be on the chopping block once Donald Trump returns to office. (https)
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Climate change is encouraging unsanitary toilet practices among vulnerable communities (theconversation.com)
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Analysis: China’s emissions have now caused more global warming than EU (www.carbonbrief.org)
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Bridging the gap: Sectoral greenhouse gas mitigation potentials in 2035 (unepccc.org)
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Climate change is spoiling food faster, making hundreds of millions of people sick around the world (yaleclimateconnections.org)
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Paris to Replace Parking Spaces With Trees | The city’s new climate plan promises to drop speed limits, repurpose traffic lanes, remove 60k parking spots & create urban “oases” to combat extreme heat (www.bloomberg.com)
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En Perú, los glaciares se derriten y algunos ríos se tiñen de rojo (www.nytimes.com)
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Where Glaciers Melt, the Rivers Run Red | As the glaciers of South America retreat, the supply of freshwater is dwindling and its quality is getting worse. (www.nytimes.com)
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China’s Soaring Emissions Are Upending Climate Politics (www.nytimes.com)
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Donald Trump’s pick for energy secretary says ‘there is no climate crisis’ (www.theverge.com)
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Populations overheat as major cities fail canopy goals (phys.org)
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Drought Is an Immigration Issue | And Trump's climate policies are designed to ignore that. (www.theatlantic.com)
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When Rome’s fountains run dry | Climate change, waste, and inaction are putting Italy’s capital at risk (thebulletin.org)
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Countries could use nature to ‘cheat’ on net zero targets, scientists warn (www.theguardian.com)
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Ladies and Gentlemen, the Northeast [US] Is Burning (www.nytimes.com)
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Thanks to the relentless burning of fossil fuels, we are — right now, in real time — departing the Holocene epoch, the Goldilocks zone of relative climate stability that enabled us to build the world as we know it over the past 12,000 years. We must recognize this moment for what it is: the beginning of a new era of civilizational retreat, contraction and consolidation. Call it the post-Holocene.

For context, wildfire has been quite rare in the northeast US for the past few hundred years.

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Saudi Arabia Is a ‘Wrecking Ball’ in Global Climate Talks: Despite endorsing a transition away from fossil fuels last year, Saudi officials have since worked to undermine it in at least five UN forums (www.nytimes.com)
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The climate and biodiversity crises are entwined, but we risk pitting one against the other (theconversation.com)
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Climate crisis to blame for dozens of ‘impossible’ heatwaves, studies reveal (www.theguardian.com)
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Tropical wetlands releasing methane bomb, threatening climate plans | The Straits Times (www.straitstimes.com)
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Scientific techniques known as climate attribution can help us discern whether the rise in severe weather events is due to global heating (www.theguardian.com)
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