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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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Trump Officials Weigh New $1 Billion Deal to Stop Offshore Wind Farms | Proposed settlements would block wind farms off New York State and North Carolina, according to documents reviewed by the NYT (www.nytimes.com)
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Meanwhile, they're going to intentionally extinct a species of whale for the oil industry

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[โ€“] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This was one of the first original executive orders at the beginning of last year. Is this their whole game? Keep circling stupid idiotic ideas annually as if they are new, original, or make any sense. Drain the swamp.

What a bunch of useless dingii.

[โ€“] silence7@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago

The first version of it was that they tried saying there was a super-secret national concern that they couldn't tell anybody about which meant that they had to stop already-approved wind farms. Buying off the companies that paid for permission ton install turbines is their second approach.