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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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A Climate Law, You Say? Never Heard of It. (www.nytimes.com)
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A Restricted Climate Super Pollutant Is Pumped Out at Far Higher Levels Than Countries Admit. What Happens Next? (insideclimatenews.org)
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A Wave of Clean Energy Project Cancellations May Be Coming in the US | The risks are highest in states that have been slowest to permit projects (www.distilled.earth)
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Godfather of climate science decries Trump plan to shut Nasa lab above Seinfeld diner: ‘It’s crazy’ (www.theguardian.com)
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So-called ‘100-year floods’ are happening more often | Climate change is making extreme floods more frequent. (yaleclimateconnections.org)
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CATL founder Robin Zeng expects China truck market to be 50% electric by 2028 | Battery giant’s forecast heralds sweeping disruption of global market in heavy goods vehicles (www.ft.com)
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Senate Fight Over Gas-Powered Vehicles Is Also a Filibuster Showdown (www.nytimes.com)
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Heatmap is a lot more blunt:

Senate to Defy Parliamentarian, Kill California Waiver

Americans: it's worth calling your Senators and asking them to preserve California's emissions waiver.

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Australia and Brazil are relying on land carbon storage to hit their climate targets, but this is a risky approach that could see fossil fuel emissions rise (www.climatechangenews.com)
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Tropical forests destroyed at fastest recorded rate last year (www.bbc.com)
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Minnesota Teens Are Fighting Climate Anxiety With Shovels | Run by teenagers, for teenagers, the Green Crew helps students get their hands dirty with projects like tree planting & trail restoration (www.nytimes.com)
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Every bit is worth something, even if no one person or group can do enough.

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How climate change threatens eye health (yaleclimateconnections.org)
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Alabama Power Threatened With Lawsuit for Contaminating Groundwater With Coal Ash (insideclimatenews.org)
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UK and EU Agree to Link Carbon Markets in Post-Brexit Reset (www.bloomberg.com)
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A majority of registered voters in the United Ststes want federal agencies to increase their efforts to protect people from the health harms of global warming (climatecommunication.yale.edu)
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Trump's big, oily bill | The anti-clean energy provisions in Trump's budget bill could raise household energy costs by as much as 7 percent. (heated.world)
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Decommissioned, retired, paused: The weather, climate, and Earth science data the government doesn’t want you to see (thebulletin.org)
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REVEALED: Now There’s Proof That the Fossil Fuel Industry Uses Cultural Sponsorships to Block Climate Action (www.desmog.com)
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Charging Installations Drop as Trump Ramps Up Attacks on EVs | The prospect of House Republicans’ cuts to electric vehicle subsidies threatens to further dim the outlook. (www.bloomberg.com)
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We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. (www.technologyreview.com)
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Africa Establishes a Space Agency to Close Its Climate Data Gap | The new organization will coordinate existing national space programs, launch satellites and set up weather stations. (www.bloomberg.com)
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Factcheck: Why expensive gas – not net-zero – is keeping UK electricity prices so high (www.carbonbrief.org)
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India's steel expansion threatens climate goals and global efforts to clean up industry: report (apnews.com)
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A new podcast asks: Are 'radical' climate activists really that radical? (grist.org)
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Trump Turns a Blind Eye to Climate Change | Nearly every other government in the world has recognized that a hotter planet poses a profound threat to humans and ecosystems. (messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com)
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Title & subtitle come from the [article version of this newsletter]https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/climate/trum-climate-change-policy.html); linking the newsletter version which is otherwise identical because it's not paywalled.

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Sea level rise will cause ‘catastrophic inland migration’, scientists warn | Rising oceans will force millions away from coasts even if global temperature rise remains below 1.5C, analysis finds (www.theguardian.com)
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The paper is here

I'll note that we're on track for something like 3°C of temperature rise by 2100

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