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Donald Trump’s pick for energy secretary says ‘there is no climate crisis’
(www.theverge.com)
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.
"Here we can see a mob of angry homo sapiens, recently displaced by a flood, attacking another member of their species they deemed responsible for it. You can see the difference in status by the angry mob mostly using improvised weaponry but even some better armed individuals joined this attack, showing, that in these trying times, empathy is still strong in a lot of members of this species" - David Attenborough, hopefully 2025