/u/silence7's posts in /r/climate
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The lost history of what Americans knew about climate change in the 1960s | It wasn't just scientists who were worried, but Congress, the White House, and even Sports Illustrated.
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Democrats’ VP pick Tim Walz welcomed as climate champion by green advocates | Kamala Harris’s running mate boasts a strong record on climate policy and green energy as Minnesota governor
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Memo to the Supreme Court: Clean Air Act Targeted CO2 as Climate Pollutant, Study Says | The new paper digs into congressional archives to settle a legal debate, arguing that climate science had determined by 1970 that greenhouse gases were warming the planet—and that lawmakers knew.
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New England and Alaska are about to deploy a lot more heat pumps | The EPA awarded these cold regions with a combined $488M to replace fossil-fueled heating with efficient electric heat pumps.
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Harris helped pass one of the strongest climate laws – her policies don’t stop there | America’s landmark climate law, which turns two years old this month, has Harris’s signature all over it
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‘Every 0.1C’ of overshoot above 1.5C increases risk of crossing tipping points | Every increment of global warming above 1.5C increases the risk of crossing key tipping points in the Earth system – even if the overshoot is only temporary, says new research.
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She’s the New Face of Climate Activism—and She’s Carrying a Pickax | For Léna Lazare and her cohort, radicalized by years of inaction on the environmental crisis, these aren’t dirty words. They’re acts of joy
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