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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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Northeast States Set Big Climate Goals. Now Those Plans Are in Trouble. (www.nytimes.com)
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Many blue states are rethinking ambitious strategies to cut emissions as they struggle with rising electricity costs and new hurdles for renewable energy.

The big problem is that rising electricity costs are caused by fossil fuel prices going up, and can be avoided with large-scale wind and solar deployment. The US federal government is working to make that hard; state governments don't need to go along, even if some politicians are trying to use it as an excuse to avoid deploying renewables.

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[–] FatCrab@slrpnk.net 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

I mean, yes, that is a problem, but the real problem is that these utility companies are posting record profits and state governments are like, WeLl We HaVe To NeGoTiATe wItH tHeM. Like, wtaf are you talking about. Fuck the companies. The material components and labor exist with or without National fucking Grid. Cap rates and tell them to take a nap on the beach at low fucking tide if they complain.