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Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•How rain is connected to climate change | As Washington state prepares for mass rain-induced evacuations, here's what climate has to do with extreme downpours.1·11 hours agoIt depends on where. The subtropical dry zone expands so significant areas get less rain overall


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Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•How rain is connected to climate change | As Washington state prepares for mass rain-induced evacuations, here's what climate has to do with extreme downpours.5·17 hours agoThere isn’t “more water” — its distribution changed. Warmer temperatures mean that water evaporates faster, the air holds more, storms become more intense, and have a different distribution than they had before.


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Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•Europe’s world-first carbon tariff is coming. Here’s what to know.5·1 day agoYes. That is the link I posted. Not quite sure what you are trying to communicate
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Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•How one controversial startup hopes to cool the planet | And why many scientists are freaked out about the first serious for-profit company moving into the solar geoengineering field.6·2 days agoYes, and proprietary, but without details about what or why.
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Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•Can Canadian PM Carney still put together a credible climate plan? Does it matter? 'Climate change is the ultimate betrayal of intergenerational equity,' Carney once wrote1·3 days agoIts been a longstanding issue. Lots of people care, but its not at the top of their priority list.
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Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•The Well Watchers | There are millions of abandoned oil wells across the United States. A group of unlikely activists in Texas is making sure no one forgets they need to be cleaned up.2·3 days agoThe Los Angeles Times ran a map of just the ones in California. Most browsers will let you access it if you edit this URL to put a . after the .com and before the /
https://www.latimes.com/projects/california-oil-well-drilling-idle-cleanup/map/
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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 finds1·5 days agoThats sounding a lot more like what I remembered
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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 finds3·6 days agoGot sources for an AMOC shutdown happening in the past few thousand years?
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News@lemmy.world•ICE officers reveal arrest quotas, facial recognition use in Oregon dragnet
1·7 days agoThey’re apparently allowed to create an “administrative” warrant which doesn’t get signed by a judge and which people don’t need to honor by opening their door. But almost nobody knows the difference between that and a judicial warrant, so they abuse them to the max.
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politics @lemmy.world•Supreme Court Conservatives Reinstate Texas’ Gerrymandered House Maps
85·7 days agoThe decision has nothing to do with their stated reasons; they are in favor of racism, but don’t want to say so
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politics @lemmy.world•Electricity Should Be Free at Noon | And two other ideas for lowering electricity costs
6·8 days agoNew nuclear is a fairly expensive way to generate electricity and site-constrained by cooling water needs. I don’t expect that much to be built.
Wind and solar are however quite cheap. Be just fine to have spot instances in your datacenter. And yes, home users should not be subsidizing big companies.
Her other ideas, like taking wildfire risk reduction out of the electric bill and putting it into billionaires income tax are also really good ones
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News@lemmy.world•The $79 Trillion Heist | We’re in an affordability crisis because workers aren’t being paid at the same levels they earned in the past.
571·9 days agoIt’s not new, but the spending by the richest has gotten to be a much much larger fraction of the total in recent years

This lets them alter the rules of society so that things aren’t just a little tilted in their favor, but are enormously so.
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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.1·9 days agoThis is California, so likely forever
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News@lemmy.world•Trump’s Immigration Forces Deploy “Less Lethal” Weapons in Dangerous Ways, Skirting Rules and Maiming Protesters
71·10 days agoThere is no war, so just crimes
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News@lemmy.world•Trump’s Immigration Forces Deploy “Less Lethal” Weapons in Dangerous Ways, Skirting Rules and Maiming Protesters
4·11 days agoThey don’t even need to modify the weapons; just shoot at peoples heads with weapons not meant for that
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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 properly12·11 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 War3·11 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.















Somewhat. It is possible to have poor siting, which people found out after deploying the first wind farms.