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What can we do with a sentence? The Dubai COP may have handed activists a new tool
(billmckibben.substack.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.
Just in time as the "but you promised 1.5 degrees" sentence expires...
1.5 was more like a stretch goal asked for by the most vulnerable countries. The commitment has long been to be below 2°C