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:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
One thing that I’m hopefully about is that solar is so cheap now so that will continue to roll out like crazy unless someone places huge tariffs on imported goods… oh shit. I just found out about the massive tariffs that fascist is wanting to put in place.
That the US is going to fall further behind China in green energy technology.
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As someone currently on extended vacation, enjoying several national parks, I would suspect national parks will be gutted for natural resources.
Assuming there is more oil to drill for...
There’s plenty under the 28M acre Alaskan wildlife refuge that Biden secured this term. I wouldn’t be surprised if Trump granted drilling rights in his first year.
There's more oil. Peak oil is about easy to get oil, not actually running out. We'll spend whatever it takes to keep this machine turning.
The oil will be drilled now or later anyway.
The question is how much is burned when and why. I can't really see anyone anywhere being interested in consuming more oil. If consumption stays the same, he'll basically just be dumping the price.
Reducing oil prices reduces the financial incentives for using bicycles, taking public transit, living in a city and using renewable energy sources. Drilling itself also has environmental impacts.
How about to each his or her or their own? Like let Texas be the oil smeared radioactive smelling shithole it wants to be?
What does that mean for climate concerns?
Kill babies, kill.
He can't make the unextractable extractable. Nor can he make consumption stop. In terms of the Keeling curve, the impact is exactly zero.