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Climate@slrpnk.net•Wildfires are front-page news. Why isn't their cause?11·3 days agoThere has been a big PR effort by the fossil fuels industry to blame arson, when that’s been responsible for a fraction of fires forever. What’s changed is the higher temperatures and lower humidity that goes with them, letting otherwise easily-contained fires grow rapidly. And that change is a result of burning fossil fuels.
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World News@lemmy.world•U.N. Says World Will Miss Its Climate Target and That Warming Must Be ReversedEnglish
1·5 days agoThe amount locked in is more like 2°C if we did a crash shift off fossil fuels and meat. Those higher numbers presuppose that people won’t forcibly shut down fossil fuel using plants and equipment before the end of its useful life.
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politics @lemmy.world•New Mail Voting Rules Moved Forward Despite USPS Officials’ Concerns About Mass Disenfranchisement
13·5 days agoThey don’t show any indication that they’re going to listen to the judge.
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World News@lemmy.world•U.N. Says World Will Miss Its Climate Target and That Warming Must Be ReversedEnglish
4·5 days agoThey’re not yet at runaway. If we drop emissons to zero, then temperatures stabilize within a human lifetime
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politics @lemmy.world•Meet the Megadonors Who Have Poured $1.2 Billion Into the Midterms | The leaderboard of the top 20 donors is dominated by the tech industry and ultrawealthy Republicans.
2·5 days agoI don’t know or care what’s down in their heart or heart or innermost thoughts. It doesn’t really matter either. What matters is that they spend a huge amount of money promoting hate so that they will have a slightly lower tax rate
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politics @lemmy.world•The MAGA Influencers Rehabilitating Hitler | A growing constituency on the right wants America to unlearn the lessons of World War II.
7·6 days agoIt’s not their first article on the topic.
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politics @lemmy.world•Whistle-Blower Says Trump Officials Are Defying Court Orders on Voting by Mail
4·6 days agoBasically all the crazy computer security problems start affecting ballots. You really don’t want to do this if it can possibly be avoided. Particularly not in the US where you don’t have any kind of universal way to identify people online in any kind of reliable way.
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Climate@slrpnk.net•The Climate Crisis Is Bigger Than Your Footprint | The climate crisis won’t be solved with lifestyle choices but through political pressure and bold collective action.14·6 days agoYou turn up. In person. You show the ability to interfere with political fundraising. You work to turn out voters on your side. You areange boycotts and other measures.
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politics @lemmy.world•Whistle-Blower Says Trump Officials Are Defying Court Orders on Voting by Mail
17·6 days agoIt’s on us.
Start asking local officials to arrange for volunteer ballot delivery and print-at-home
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politics @lemmy.world•For a Thirsty American West, It’s Either Cows or Humans
7·7 days agoAll of the above, with there being a pretty wide variety of cooling designs in use. Most of the data center cooling water needs are actually in the power plants that supply them.
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politics @lemmy.world•Pentagon secretly installs military influencers in civilian roles
5·7 days agoIt makes an absolutely huge difference actually. The presence/absence of a major right-wing propaganda outlet changes local opinion by about five percentage points.
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Climate@slrpnk.net•This El Niño Will Be Unlike Any in the Past Eight Decades | Die-offs and floods have started already, a prelude to supercharged storms and droughts.18·8 days agoIt’s not the only source, or even a majority, but it is big enough to matter and it saves money for almost everybody to stop. (Sole real exception: arctic populations who have to import anything agricultural)
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politics @lemmy.world•Judge again blocks Trump mail ballot executive order in ruling that’s likely to be swiftly appealed
10·11 days agoThere’s a reason Biden was appointing as many judges as he could
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politics @lemmy.world•Jailed ICE Agent Wanted in Minnesota Released in Texas
47·11 days agoThis kind:
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
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News@lemmy.world•ICE Arrests Soar as People With No Criminal Record Are Increasingly Targeted
29·11 days agoThere aren’t enough immigrants to meet their targets.
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Climate@slrpnk.net•It Just Got Way Easier to Sue Fossil Fuel Companies Over Climate Change: For years, industry has argued you can’t prove which company caused which disaster. A new study says otherwise.20·13 days agoPretty much. Though greenhouse gases mix in the atmosphere pretty thoroughly, so responsibility is almost surely in direct proportion to cumulative historical emissions
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Climate@slrpnk.net•It Just Got Way Easier to Sue Fossil Fuel Companies Over Climate Change: For years, industry has argued you can’t prove which company caused which disaster. A new study says otherwise.18·13 days agoBasically no insurer in the US underwrites home flood insurance. It’s all a single federal program.









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