Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.
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:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
I absolutely detest SUVs (I hate how they drive, and the sheer size, as well as the efficiency issues mentioned here), and will do my damndest to avoid ever buying one, but it’s starting to feel like I’m simply being relegated to buying a used car.
The average American consumer is frustratingly dumb :(
Efficiency goes down as car manufacturing begins offering main battle tanks for the suburban mom that does it all
Blame the CAFE regulation's formula for minimum required mpg favoring bigger vehicles
while gains in efficiency have slowed, profits have made steady gains
looking at things strictly from an environmental perspective misses an important part of the story