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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 new report shows how local climate activism leads to ‘remarkable’ gains (www.redstonestrategy.com)
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  1. Community-based strategies yield meaningful, scalable, and durable results for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. When communities have a direct stake in an effort, they stand up to protect it. Local projects can generate durable support based on the direct employment, health, or equity impacts on residents’ lives.
  2. Community-based strategies are essential to making progress on climate. They create state and local level wins that add up to national progress. They can leverage state and local governments’ abilities to advance climate solutions (e.g., building permits, public transportation, land use authorizations for pipelines or renewable energy facilities), which is even more important given federal roadblocks.
  3. Local engagement and partnership are needed to ensure that national strategies and policies produce their intended impact (e.g., by having the ability to implement national efforts).
  4. Community-based strategies strengthen our democracy. Community-based investment can protect local organizations under attack and increase civic engagement, a cornerstone of a healthy democracy.
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