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We could be heading into the hottest summer of our lives
(www.vox.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.
So around my early-April birthday I’m used to chaos.
That’s what spring is like. It’s supposed to be weird.
But it’s gotten so weird.. my lilacs got frostbite, and half of the spring growth died… They budded in early March and then several frosts followed.. because of course they did. That’s spring. But man the plants are confused.
Up here in Canada I murmured to myself "we're fucked" when I kept noticing the geese flying north, then south, then north, all winter.
It's not just the plants.