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.
Yes, clearly solar power has no place on a continent spanning the equator that happens to have nine deserts. That's crazy talk. /s
And I'm pretty damn sure wind power can be squeezed in somewhere as well. Just to round it off nicely.
B-B-But what if it's not WiNdY aT nIgHt??
3D Checkmate!
In Görmany vee haev a zaying: "At night, it is colder zan it is outside" and I zink zat's beautifull.
We also have the handy term Dunkelflaute / dark doldrums, (honestly sounds a lot better in English) for when our uncle Karl-Heinz needs to schwurbel / spout conspiracy bullshit concerning volatile solar/wind Zitterstrom / quivering power at a family festivity that we sadly can't just leave, for fear of upsetting mom and grandma Helga.
Fuck me, I wish that wasn't so damn accurate.
A meme repeated in Africa is "US and British come to lecture us. China builds hospitals". Legalizing bribery is a path for US privatization of energy boondoggles on the continent. Bribes always cheapest way to corrupt economics.
Africa has fantastic solar resources, but more importantly, does not have established monopolies that make home/community solar expensive in US. The cost of a western built coal plant, and electricity transmission/distribution in Africa is high. Importing coal also higher there due to less infrastructure. Coal prices rose to extortionist levels from war on Russia, and extortionist LNG prices in Europe.
Even if you want to build a utility scale power plant in Africa, solar and batteries are cheaper than coal, and dependence on coal/fossil fuel supplies and price fluctuations. African grid reliability is poor largely because fuel supplies are already unreliable. Trump/US saying that Africa selling cocoa and coffee that no one else can grow is taking advantage of US with upcoming tariffs, would make it clear corruption to submit more strongly to US. The decolonization of Africa moves that have taken place the last 2 years as the west devolves to irrelevance, is not something that will likely be reversed... depending on those bribery levels.
Dude is a gene stealer cultist trying to warm the planet for the coming of the star gods.