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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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US EV Charging Program Faces the Axe in Budget Bill | Legislation that could end the partial government shutdown would slash funding for the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure program. (insideclimatenews.org)
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[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

With how anti-EV this administration is, I'm honestly surprised it's still around to be cut.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Blah blah blah, we agreed to give you funding, Trump pulled it, industry sues administration, judge says “you can’t do that Trump”, funding restored. Lather-Rinse-Repeat.

[–] turdburglar@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

well, on the bright side, mitch mcconnell is about to die.

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I don't wish death on anyone, and especially not Mitch McConnell. I do wish him a long, painful stay in hospice, though.