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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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For a Thing That Will Supposedly Fix the Climate, AI Sure Needs a Lot of Fossil Fuels (www.splinter.com)
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Meta-analysis of current global warming impacts suggests a third of all species could be extinct by 2100 (phys.org)
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Why a two-year surge in global warmth is worrying scientists (wapo.st)
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What is the real toll of natural and climate disasters? Science has staggering new answers (www.theguardian.com)
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Irish State 'facing €20bn fine' if it fails to reduce emissions (www.rte.ie)
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Some of the world’s biggest cities are so polluted they’re warming slower (grist.org)
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But this surprising effect of pollution should hardly be taken as a good sign.

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Weatherwatch: why cooling white roofs cause neighbours to swelter | Climate crisis (www.theguardian.com)
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Decline of Reflective Low Clouds May Have Contributed to Recent Record Heat (insideclimatenews.org)
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What to Know About a Landmark Court Case | Judges in The Hague are weighing what, exactly, international law requires countries to do about global warming. (messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com)
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This is how many animals could go extinct from climate change (www.vox.com)
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When are we going to have the courage to stop the climate crisis? (www.irishtimes.com)
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"If our overheating planet is a result of human greed, then it must be a special kind of greed, a kind that emerged puzzlingly late in the long history of our species and then with a sudden vengeance."

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Day after nuclear power vow, Meta announces largest-ever datacenter powered by fossil fuels (go.theregister.com)
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Lessons from Earth's hottest epoch in the last 65 million years: How global warming could shrink the tropics' rain belt (phys.org)
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Rapid surge in global warming mainly due to reduced planetary albedo, researchers suggest (phys.org)
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Democrat calls on White House to finish efficiency rules, warning of climate consequences (thehill.com)
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Why Climate Change Will Wreck the Municipal Bond Market (heatmap.news)
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Winter Is Cooked | It’s getting not only warmer but wetter. (www.theatlantic.com)
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I'll note that there are significant regional differences in precipitation patterns in a warmer world, so your results will depend on location.

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Here’s What States Should Do to Fight Climate Change Under Trump (newrepublic.com)
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How agricultural interests are teaming up with big oil to take advantage of tax credits meant to fight climate change—and what the backlash can tell us about the future of climate politics. (drilled.media)
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“Fossil fascism”: How some on the right use climate change as an excuse to demonize migrants (www.salon.com)
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Historian Jean-Baptiste Fressoz: ‘Forget the energy transition: there never was one and there never will be one’ (www.resilience.org)
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In France, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz has been provoking the energy and climate debate for some time. He denounces the obsession with technological solutions to climate change and advocates a reduction in the use of materials and energy.

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How climate risks are driving up insurance premiums around the US – visualized | ‘Tight correlation’ between premium rises and counties deemed most at risk from climate crisis, experts say (www.theguardian.com)
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Electrification is Ireland’s missing climate link (www.irishtimes.com)
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GENERATING A(I) CRISIS: The impact of “generative AI” and machine learning systems on corporate accountability and power system decarbonisation (caad.info)
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Fury as US argues against climate obligations at top UN court | US says current climate rules are satisfactory, prompting condemnation from activists and vulnerable countries (www.theguardian.com)
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