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The Texas Flash Flood Is a Preview of the Chaos to Come
(talkingpointsmemo.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.
Lol. It already happened again in New Mexico...
You know, this has drastically increased my respect for meteorologists. I always thought they were convenient, but I generally just look outside for my weather
And I mean, I knew they were important for hurricanes and such... But holy shit, a few months after the cuts and rainstorms are killing dozens
I'm pretty sure people dying was the goal, otherwise it's difficult to cull the population and disguise it as cost cutting.
Okay? I'm frankly more worried about how they're doing a genocide and killing medical care, but I still think meteorologists have shown their value through their absence