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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: IPCC AR6 Figure 2 - Thee bar charts: first chart: how much each gas has warmed the world. About 1C of total warming. Second chart: about 1.5C of total warming from well-mixed greenhouse gases, offset by 0.4C of cooling from aerosols and negligible influence from changes to solar output, volcanoes, and internal variability. Third chart: about 1.25C of warming from CO2, 0.5C from methane, and a bunch more in small quantities from other gases. About 0.5C of cooling with large error bars from SO2.

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On Earth Day, Biden is launching a new site to apply for Climate Corps jobs (www.npr.org)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Before anyone gets excited, I took a look. Most of the positions posted pay $11-16/hr.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

That's pretty normal for construction sector helper job starting wages, though, depending on region. Probably shouldn't be, but is. The nature of federal programs is that they have really strong guardrails to keep their wages on prevailing, which can go both ways and this is the rare occasion of it going a worse way, in my opinion.

Those jobs tend to see significant pay bumps for people who last and are useful.

Not to mention the huge amount of this funding going to green banks. Green banks are just flatly good programs. Highly effective at making renewable projects happen, very high return on investment.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Reminds me of the Conservation Corps. As much as I support the concept, programs like this are not for people who need money.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

did it provide food and lodging?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Possible lodging, no food.

It was quite a few years before I could afford a month's worth of food in one go, and I was too old to join by then. The way they (people my own age) handled telling me that I was too poor to join their club, left a lasting impression.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

thats where it fails. the depression era stuff they got a cot and meals in a mess hall and then they could send their money home to their families.