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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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Why and how Americans can help elect Harris (slrpnk.net)
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I'll be taking a bus to a swing state to help elect Harris this coming weekend. You don't need to do quite that much; there are actions hosted near you to join.

The reason is that while Harris isn't in absolute 100% agreement with me on every detail (unless I run for office, no candidate will be), she's the candidate much closer to taking adequate climate action. The Biden/Harris administration did a lot, starting with Harris casting the deciding vote for the Inflation Reduction Act., a key piece of climate legislation. We even saw major cuts to the leasing of federal lands for coal, as well as big cuts to oil and gas leasing

By contrast, Trump appointed a coal lobbyist to run the EPA and took steps to increase not just greenhouse gas emissions, but a wide variety of human-impacting pollutants, and surrounded by people who want to eliminate any effort to address the climate problem

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Jordan Peterson’s online class compares climate activists to mass shooters. (www.desmog.com)
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Chevron is evil (m.youtube.com)
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Interesting and sometimes funny video about how Chevron has wrecked havoc in Ecuador and attacked everyone trying to stop them.

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Global emissions set to peak in 2024 thanks to EVs, clean energy | New research predicts global CO2 emissions will begin to decline this year and halve by 2050. That’s not fast enough (www.canarymedia.com)
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Scientists are alarmed by signs of collapse in Earth's natural carbon sinks (www.motherjones.com)
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The ‘world’s largest’ vacuum to suck climate pollution out of the air just opened. Here’s how it works (edition.cnn.com)
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Climate Change Made Hurricane Milton Stronger, With Heavier Rain, Scientists Conclude (insideclimatenews.org)
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‘I love the smell of success more than petrol’: Australian investors break with tradition in world-leading climate campaign (www.theguardian.com)
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Investors say climate change poses biggest risk to their assets, and urge Albanese government to see the economic dangers of a slow path to net zero

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Burning household rubbish now UK’s dirtiest form of power, BBC finds (www.bbc.com)
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The fate of thousands of US dams hangs in the balance, leaving rural communities with hard choices (grist.org)
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Pennsylvania has run on coal, oil, and gas, but it’s seeking a new era of economic growth from low-carbon industry and cleantech manufacturing. (www.canarymedia.com)
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Welcome to the world of personal air conditioning | As the climate warms, the rich will live in cool bubbles of comfort. The poor, not so much. (www.theclimatebrink.com)
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We’ve only had 1.3C of global average warming, but it’s enough to popularize the entire category of personal cooling devices. So when people say, “You won’t even notice 1C of global warming,” the market tells us that that’s absolute bullshit.

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Big Oil Will Exploit This Trillion-Dollar Loophole Until Someone Closes It (www.splinter.com)
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A Climate Resistant Community Passed Two Hurricane Tests | On the west coast of Florida, a town built to weather hurricanes hosted more than 2,000 people during Hurricane Milton. (www.nytimes.com)
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The Supreme Court is a threat to California’s climate rules no matter who wins the election. (www.politico.com)
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Gas Plants Have a Real Climate Problem. So Do Some Proposed Approaches for Addressing It. (blog.ucsusa.org)
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What happens to the world if forests stop absorbing carbon? Ask Finland (www.theguardian.com)
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The Flood-Protection Rule That Trump Rolled Back | A Trump-era rollback of flood-protection rules has left critical infrastructure projects at higher risk, experts say. (messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com)
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Title and subtitle are from the article version of this newsletter; linking the non-paywalled newsletter version at the top for easy access.

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Trees and land absorbed almost no CO2 last year. Is nature’s carbon sink failing? (www.theguardian.com)
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New Research Spells Trouble For Blue Hydrogen in Texas | Where natural gas comes from matters for hydrogen production. (heatmap.news)
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Where climate change poses the most and least risk to American homeowners (wapo.st)
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New evidence says gas exports damage the climate even more than coal. It’s time Australia took serious action (www.theguardian.com)
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De-fund the Tone Police (drilled.ghost.io)
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The climate movement has been led by people who look and think and talk the same for a very long time. If time is short, isn't this precisely the time to try everything? To broaden out, seek fresh ideas, build a larger, stronger and more connected movement?

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‘It’s mindblowing’: US meteorologists face death threats as hurricane conspiracies surge (www.theguardian.com)
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Only one-third of Europe's surface water in good health, study warns (www.france24.com)
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