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China leads nations with new climate plans, defying U.S. climate denial
(www.nbcnews.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.
Plans…
Their renewable capacity has been exploding so its fairly realistic. The issue is that their total energy consumption is exploding even harder, so the ratio of renewables to fossil isnt improving very much.