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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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Q&A: How the U.S.–China rivalry is holding back the world’s climate progress (grist.org)
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Wind and solar overtook coal on the US grid in 2024 | The renewable energy sources together generated more electricity than coal-fired power plants from January to November of this year. (www.canarymedia.com)
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How a Burgeoning Industry in Kazakhstan Is Trying to Kickstart ‘Climate-Smart Beef’ | The country is working to scale up livestock industry without adding to global emissions. Experts are skeptical (insideclimatenews.org)
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Climate change is making plants less nutritious − that could already be hurting animals that are grazers (theconversation.com)
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How your mind tricks you into ignoring the climate crisis (www.nationalgeographic.com)
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Why seas are surging | What one tide gauge reveals about America’s climate future (wapo.st)
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This is a piece with significant animated illustrations which show what is going on.

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ESA and NASA satellites deliver first joint picture of Greenland Ice Sheet melting (phys.org)
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‘We’re gobsmacked’: climate groups angered by Labor’s ‘no new coalmines’ claim (www.theguardian.com)
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Shell greenwashed gas using "phantom" carbon credits | Shell used rice-farming offsets for “carbon neutral” LNG campaign – but farmers and local authorities said no project activities took place (www.climatechangenews.com)
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How the Climate Crisis Became an Insurance Crisis (messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com)
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AI is guzzling gas | Big Tech is paying for gas plants and pipelines to directly power data centers, threatening global climate goals. (heated.world)
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Key context here: The Biden Administration is planning to massively ease construction of AI datacenters in its last days

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“An exclamation point on global warming”: Climate scientists warn 2024 was marked by broken records (www.salon.com)
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Guide to Climate Action in Your Local Community (www.resilience.org)
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NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab is developing robots to gather data beneath Antarctica’s ice shelves (yaleclimateconnections.org)
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The World Needs Ocean-Based Climate Solutions (www.project-syndicate.org)
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Biden just set a big new climate goal. Can the US achieve it? (grist.org)
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NATO: Kremlin-backed actors’ disinformation seeks to derail green investment (eciu.net)
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Earth’s clouds are shrinking, boosting global warming | Narrowing storm bands may be a surprising and dangerous new feedback of climate change (www.science.org)
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Biden just set a new climate goal. Trump and other obstacles await | the United States would aim to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by between 61 and 66 percent by 2035 compared with 2005 levels. (wapo.st)
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Montana Supreme Court upholds historic youth climate lawsuit win (www.thenewlede.org)
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The Montana Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a trial court ruling in a youth-led case against the Montana state government, affirming that the sixteen young plaintiffs have a right to a “stable climate system.” The decision marks what legal observers say is a landmark achievement in US climate litigation that is likely to inspire more lawsuits seeking to hold governments accountable for climate change harms in the US and around the world.

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Coal use to reach new peak – and remain at near-record levels for years | Spike in fossil fuel use a result of global gas crisis triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (www.theguardian.com)
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Can China Shield the Biggest Uninsured Economy From Floods? Authorities are taking out citywide insurance policies to protect tens of millions of people from increasingly violent weather (www.bloomberg.com)
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Gas Will Be the First Big Climate Fight of the Trump Era | The Biden administration just made the case against increasing natural-gas exports. (www.theatlantic.com)
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Montana Supreme Court affirms decision in Held, historic youth climate case | Limit on analysis of greenhouse gas emissions unconstitutional, court says (dailymontanan.com)
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Biden backs California’s push to Trump-proof its EV plans | The Environmental Protection Agency’s move sets up a clash between the liberal state and President-elect Donald Trump. (wapo.st)
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