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I'll be taking a bus to a swing state to help elect Harris this coming weekend. You don't need to do quite that much; there are actions hosted near you to join.

The reason is that while Harris isn't in absolute 100% agreement with me on every detail (unless I run for office, no candidate will be), she's the candidate much closer to taking adequate climate action. The Biden/Harris administration did a lot, starting with Harris casting the deciding vote for the Inflation Reduction Act., a key piece of climate legislation. We even saw major cuts to the leasing of federal lands for coal, as well as big cuts to oil and gas leasing

By contrast, Trump appointed a coal lobbyist to run the EPA and took steps to increase not just greenhouse gas emissions, but a wide variety of human-impacting pollutants, and surrounded by people who want to eliminate any effort to address the climate problem

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" ... as soon as vehicles come in the right price range next year … people will flock to buy them.”

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changes in population distribution and land use over the 20th century – including forest fragmentation and the conversion of land for urban development and agriculture – have suppressed wildfires, driving down global burned area by 19%.

However, this decline has been hindered by human-caused warming, which has expanded the area burned by 16% through increasingly hot and dry conditions across much of the world.

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Roughly a month after the Ketchikan slide, Hurricane Helene caused hundreds of landslides in southern Appalachia; more than 600 have affected rivers or critical infrastructure. “We can say for certain that we’re seeing more landslides occurring because of the effects of climate change,” said Dave Petley, a landslide expert at the University of Hull in England.

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In particular, they're looking at charts like this one:

These don't scale down the industry as fast as we need, but do promise a future of sharply reduced profitability.

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But if CCS operations leak, they can pose significant risks to water resources. That’s because pressurized CO2 stored underground can escape or propel brine trapped in the saline reservoirs typically used for permanent storage. The leaks can lead to heavy metal contamination and potentially lower pH levels, all of which can make drinking water undrinkable. This is what bothers critics of carbon capture who worry that it’s solving one problem by creating another.

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The $5 trillion industry's move against clean energy and green technology may prove more damaging than political pushback over "woke" capitalism.

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You want to keep him from taking office and repeating his pollution-maximization agenda? Then don't just voteget involved as a volunteer for the Harris campaign

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IMHO the big thing that will help is actually volunteering for her campaign

Archived copies of the article:

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Should international climate pacts require militaries to report the amount of greenhouse gases they release into the atmosphere?

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Honestly this is why I'm so into the idea of airless tires. Everyone just happily ignores this waste and I don't get it

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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/14419452

He added: “For island states – which make up nearly half of the membership of the Commonwealth – it’s a threat which is truly existential. If we cannot find ways to make our countries more resilient to these shocks, we will not survive.”

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The Supreme Court’s decision to not temporarily block an E.P.A. rule this week signals ‘rising influence’ of Justice Barrett, one analyst said.

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