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Heat Is Costing the U.S. Economy Billions in Lost Productivity
(www.nytimes.com)
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:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
Yes. Financial institutions, including the Federal Reserve Bank, have been dragging their feet on anything to do with climate change because "it's impossible to know the financial effects", as if catastrophe can be financially managed.
This gives those of us that want capitalists and neoclassical economist to pull their head out of their asses some leverage.