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"Carbon bomb" financiers threaten world's ability to curb warming
(www.motherjones.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:
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That's not going to do nearly enough. We need prison terms for people who are responsible for greenlighting these investments. Just look at that BNP quote — it's probably the most concrete of all the quotes and even they feel like they're doing the right thing by pouring 20% of their money for energy into fossil projects by 2030. The rest of them had no statement or were even worse, using "energy security" as code for fossil energy.