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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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EPA knew it wrongfully canceled dozens of environmental grants | According to an internal email, EPA officials knew they had no contractual right to cancel dozens of grants. They did it anyway. (wapo.st)
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This is entirely on the Trump administration, and Lee Zeldin, the administrator Trump appointed — illegal actions aren't generally something the EPA tries to pull off like this.

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[–] MajorHavoc 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This is going to be a great time to be a lawyer... until the climate kills us all, of course.