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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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The ‘God Squad’ Waives US Environmental Rules for Offshore Drilling (www.nytimes.com)
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The panel voted to override Endangered Species Act restrictions on oil and gas activities in the Gulf of Mexico, home to critically endangered whales and other imperiled wildlife.

This will have essentially no impact on fuel prices; those are set on global markets, and the US has been a net oil exporter since the early Biden administration.

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[–] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 hours ago

I live in Louisiana, rural parts. Nearly everyone here is employed in Oil & Gas to some degree. Ads play constantly trying to sway public opinion against the numerous lawsuits being filed against these companies for consistently breaking these regulations.

They are all gonna love this and think it's gonna be a "boon for jobs".

I fucking hate it here. The people and culture of this area offer nothing of value to the world and actively make it a worse place.

[–] Bonus@sh.itjust.works 3 points 12 hours ago

Motherfuckers