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.
There are more than 92,000 dams nationwide, according to a US Army Corps of Engineers inventory. Of those, some 16,000, or close to 20%, are classified as having “high hazard potential.” That doesn’t mean they are at increased risk of failure, but that their failure would entail a significant loss of life or property.
See the Mount Polley TSF failure of 2015 or the Brumandinho dam disaster for visualizations
Well, they probably could have handled all this rain 100 years ago. When they were new. Invest in your infrastructure kids!
A lot of things weren’t built for today’s climate charged rain and floods lol
They don’t even store the ‘roads closed due to flood’ signs and barricades anymore. They just leave it on the side until the next storm.
black bag over a permanent roadworks sign
