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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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Vermont’s Clean Heat Standard will not go into effect (www.wcax.com)
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[–] BertramDitore@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It was built into the bill. From the article:

The law required another affirmative vote from the legislature before implementation, but lawmakers never voted on the measure.

[–] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 week ago

Choo choo! All aboard the climate collapse train!

Chugga chugga!

[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 3 points 1 week ago

But why? Why would you write into a bill that passing the bill isn't really passing the bill and that it needs to be passed again to pass for realsies that time?

Was it was designed to fail? That's such an utterly fucking pointless and stupid thing to do otherwise.