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silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate@slrpnk.netEnglish · 4 days ago

Deadly heat is coming. But funding to save lives is not. [US]

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Deadly heat is coming. But funding to save lives is not. [US]

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silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate@slrpnk.netEnglish · 4 days ago
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Deadly heat is coming. But funding to save lives is not.
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Emergency officials are searching for loopholes to save lives as President Donald Trump slashes programs.
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    In 2024, [Florida] Republican lawmakers prohibited cities and counties from requiring heat protections for workers, such as mandatory shade or water breaks.

    Florida and Texas republicans, always competing to see who can be the cruelest pricks.

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      Texas did it in 2023 - https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/07/21/1189179220/amid-a-record-heat-wave-texas-construction-workers-lose-their-right-to-rest-brea

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    RICH People have AC so WHY should we Care? That’s a WASTE of Money giving POOR People AC to!

    -Pro Life Americans on Welfare!

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    “PROPAGANDA! It’s never been 118°!”

    Frantic whispering…

    "Wait, what?!? They’re not using Celsius?!? What kind of neanderthals are they?!?”

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    Death Party doing Death Party things

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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: Graph of temperature as observed with significant warming, and simulated without added greenhouse gases and other anthropogentic changes, which shows no significant warming

How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world: IPCC AR6 Figure 2 - Thee bar charts: first chart: how much each gas has warmed the world.  About 1C of total warming.  Second chart:  about 1.5C of total warming from well-mixed greenhouse gases, offset by 0.4C of cooling from aerosols and negligible influence from changes to solar output, volcanoes, and internal variability.  Third chart: about 1.25C of warming from CO2, 0.5C from methane, and a bunch more in small quantities from other gases.  About 0.5C of cooling with large error bars from SO2.

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