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Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•Collapse of key Atlantic current could bring extreme drought to Europe for hundreds of years, study finds4·2 days agoGot sources for an AMOC shutdown happening in the past few thousand years?
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Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•Ding dong, burning coal for electricity is dead | At least in California.1·5 days agoThis is California, so likely forever
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Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•56 million years ago, the Earth suddenly heated up – and many plants stopped working properly12·7 days agoA huge amount of extra CO2 showed up. We don’t have a definitive answer as to where from.
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Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•Many Fighting Climate Change Worry They Are Losing the Information War3·7 days agoTitles are a problem; they’re all that almost everybody sees — click-through rates to articles are around 2.5% of the headline view rates. I try to increase that by using gift links and archived copies of articles; but that has a fairly limited impact on peoples’ willingness to click in the first place.
Actually understanding means doing more than reading the headline, and that makes it very hard to get information across.
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Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•Water shortages could derail UK’s net zero plans, study finds | Tensions grow after research in England finds there may not be enough water for planned carbon capture and hydrogen projects5·8 days agoYes, but they don’t scale to anything like the amount of CO2 people are adding to the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels. In practice, this means having to phase out fossil fuels faster
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Technology@lemmy.world•How Cops Are Using Flock Safety's ALPR Network to Surveil Protesters and ActivistsEnglish
5·9 days agoRealistically you need to get them banned.
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Technology@lemmy.world•How Cops Are Using Flock Safety's ALPR Network to Surveil Protesters and ActivistsEnglish
9·9 days agoGet flock banned at a local level.
Get to protests on a bicycle or a bus. Carpool if you must.
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Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•The Quick and Shameful Death of Biden’s Biggest Policy | It was far too easy for Republicans to kill the Inflation Reduction Act. Where did those who crafted it go wrong?51·10 days agoMore that the structure of the legislation — where many of the benefits weren’t immediate — made it easier for Republicans to win elections.
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Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•Outer Banks Homes Collapsing Is Just a Taste of What’s to Come8·12 days agoWarmer temperatures got ice melting. This raised sea level a bit, and increased the rate of erosion
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Technology@lemmy.world•AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet — And Thanksgiving Dinner | Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible picturesEnglish
7·13 days agoSomehow read that as a snail onion
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Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•Natural gas use for electricity in California falls as solar generation rises4·13 days agoYeah, growing alfalfa in the desert for export as cattle fodder is just bonkers, but we do it because the farmers there have senior rights to Colorado River water
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Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•Natural gas use for electricity in California falls as solar generation rises7·13 days agoWe were in a drought. Rain returned
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Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•Pelosi calls Trump ‘the biggest con job in American history’ in reply to climate comment2·14 days agoThere haven’t been the votes for getting rid of those. The arc towards decarbonization legislation has been painfully slow
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Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•Pelosi calls Trump ‘the biggest con job in American history’ in reply to climate comment112·14 days agoShe got decent stuff through the House when we pushed for it. The Senate was always where it was tough; it took the vote of an actual coal baron to pass anything
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Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•Our Almost-Apocalyptic Climate Future | By shooting for 3 degrees Celsius of warming, the world could slide toward a more cataclysmic 4 degrees.6·14 days agoWe don’t have to be — the bulk of coal, oil, and gas is still in the ground. There are forests yet standing.
Doom is a choice, and one we can fight against.
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Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•End of fossil fuel era inches closer as Cop30 deal agreed after bitter standoff2·15 days agoCountries agreed to talk about talking about a plan for a fossil fuels phase out. Which is more than has happened before.
Its nowhere near where things need to be.
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Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•End of fossil fuel era inches closer as Cop30 deal agreed after bitter standoff7·15 days agoYeah, COP can only act by consensus, so the fossil fuels industry buys their way into national delegations, and blocks anything meaningful.
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Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•Can we handle the truth on climate?1·16 days agoIts a gift link so access is free. Didn’t hit the registration thing myself but easy enough for you to plug the URL into archive.ph













Thats sounding a lot more like what I remembered