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Anger is most powerful emotion by far for spurring climate action, study finds
The paper is [here](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378023001048)
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Republican US Senator Cassidy proposes 'foreign pollution fee' to stem climate change
He's been talking about it for months, but looks like he's going to actually introduce it. An embedded-emissions tariff like this was proposed during early draft outlines of Build Back Better, but didn't survive negotiation. I'll note that his idea of 'more methane gas instead of coal' is something which might have been a reasonable intermediate step 30 years ago. It's not now, in a world where wind and solar are the cheap option.
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Biden faces calls to declare climate emergency as he heads to Maui
He's reportedly [staying at the home of Tom Steyer](https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1819239/bidens-staying-at-lake-tahoe-home-of-climate-activist-tom-steyer), one of the few super-rich to engage in public political climate activism.
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    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: 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.

    Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:

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