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.
🖕Dharna Noor+theguardian. The headline should be:
Big oil lobby climate disinformation fueling climate crisis and high energy costs.
UK libel laws are pretty awful for the press.
And then? The oil execs aren't remotely concerned.
I recently had to go to Exxon HQ in Houston. Oil money is so insanely large, all of the shit we bitch about with tech money pales by comparison.
Why do you think tech is sucking up to government? They want to replace those oil money influences with their own opinions and schemes. Oil is waning and tech is on the rise. It's also why they so aggressively try to keep oil relevant, because they are making shit tons of money from it. It doesn't help "us" in any way, we could easily all be driving electric and powered by renewables.