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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:

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Illinois running low on power as AI data centers spike electricity demand | The news is a blow to Gov. JB Pritzker’s climate change-fighting goals too, as demand from AI data centers soars (www.wbez.org)

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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 3 points 10 months ago

The obvious short term thing to help as much as possible as fast as possible is to allow one to one power credits for home solar and such. Also specifically allow balcony solar systems.

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