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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: Graph of temperature as observed with significant warming, and simulated without added greenhouse gases and other anthropogentic changes, which shows no significant warming

How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world: IPCC AR6 Figure 2 - Thee bar charts: first chart: how much each gas has warmed the world. About 1C of total warming. Second chart: about 1.5C of total warming from well-mixed greenhouse gases, offset by 0.4C of cooling from aerosols and negligible influence from changes to solar output, volcanoes, and internal variability. Third chart: about 1.25C of warming from CO2, 0.5C from methane, and a bunch more in small quantities from other gases. About 0.5C of cooling with large error bars from SO2.

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Unpaid Debts | In the midst of a battle against a dying industry, a Kentucky judge said Oakland owes hundreds of millions of dollars to a bankrupt corporation that exists only on paper. (www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org)
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[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You nailed it with "it cannot make plausible promises" though. So where's the part that an entity that cannot make plausible promises should somehow be liable for hypothetical un-realized profits?

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well, fortunately for other cities that don't make a habit of tortious interference, the law actually does hold cities to promises that they make.

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago

^^ Exhibit A why ISDS, the World Bank, IMF, etc are a disease of the mind, not just a mistake. ^^