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Newsom has 11-word response — with a four-letter word — to Trump’s climate moves
(www.sfchronicle.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.
True, they don't have the same kind of wind usually but their forests are immensely more flammable.
I'm not an expert but from everything I can find about this topic it seems like fire prevention absolutely could have avoided most of the houses that burned down.
Very hard call. It is rainy season, but drought during rainy season. If it rains next week, problem solved. If you remove all vegetation now, and it rains next week, mud slides.
Mud slides comes when you remove too many trees. You can remove a lot of shrubbery without increasing chances of mud slide.
That's possible.
Also, AC could probably prevent all heat-related death. But using AC in all buildings on earth, all the time, is not a viable option.