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U.S. Efforts to Cut Emissions Stalled in 2024 as Power Demand Surged
(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.
Bitcoin miners aren't buying nuclear reactors. https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/26/1104516/three-mile-island-microsoft/
AI is another order of magnitude more electrical usage than even the BTC bullshit.
lol holy shit I think the only company I would trust less with the responsibility of owning a nuclear reactor is boeing and I am not even sure on that one