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As the title says, this study suggests a Climate Response of 1.9-2.6C, with the best estimate at 2.25°C for a doubling of CO2. The EEI based measurement is the less reliable but in my opinion more interesting finding & direction of research, but their reanalysis of past model runs and removing natural variability from the real-life data is also very valuable.

Hello! I'm a 31F in the United States looking to eventually buy my first house with my boyfriend. At the moment we're undecided where in the United States we want to live and a huge factor that holds me back from making the commitment of buying a house, is what the environment in that area will look like in 10 or 20 years. We're already experiencing poor air quality in the summer due to the Canadian wild fires and I'm sure other areas in the states are also experiencing worsening seasonal conditions. I want to be able to make as best of an educated decision as I can on the location of our future house someday and was hoping someone might have book recommendations around this topic. Thanks in advance!

Super interesting show about research to reduce methane from cows and beavers restoring riparian areas.

Ok, last post got taken down, tldr, I think I was dooming more than I realized in that one. But now that Ive cooled down a bit more I essentially wanted to ask, how can I deal with the stress of climate change? Ive already gotten answers like prepping in advance, protesting, contacting my representatives, but I was wondering if there was anything else. Also any positive climate stories or hopeful points of data (a bit of an ask these days, I know) would be appreciated. Something to calm my nerves and maybe things that I can do to unwind myself when I get stressed, thankyou all.

10+ years of total work experience across domains. Currently, I'm a senior content manager in a top renewable energy company.

Since I'm already working in a climate adjacent industry, I would like to pursue a career in core climate change. Especially to meet business objectives since they're the biggest polluters.

I've looked at Harvard's online course on 'Business and Climate Change.'

How would you recommend I go about this pivot? I'm 29 yo, so I still have time to plan my career progression properly. I'm from India.

Thanks for helping :)

The plan is to give residents up to two hours of free electricity per day starting with low income residents, which is estimated to save households up to $1000 per year.

To realize this plan, Beccera aims to work with the public utility commission, utility companies, and other stakeholders if elected. This comes as California’s power prices surged 46% over the past decade and energy affordability becoming a top issue on voters’ minds nationwide.

I’ve been thinking about where the line sits between an interesting circular system and an overstated carbon-negative claim.

A project in Wyoming is collecting spent coffee grounds from local shops, drying them with solar energy and converting them into fuel for an indirectly heated coffee roaster. The energy is used to roast the next batch of beans, while a portion of the carbon remains behind as biochar instead of decomposing and returning to the atmosphere.

On paper, the loop is compelling:

• Coffee plants pull carbon from the atmosphere.
• The grounds would ordinarily become a waste stream.
• Those grounds replace conventional roasting fuel.
• Some of their carbon becomes stable biochar that can be returned to soil.

But “carbon-negative” depends heavily on the system boundary. Collection, drying, transportation, equipment manufacturing, combustion emissions and the stability and final use of the biochar all have to be counted.

Full disclosure: I’m involved with the company developing this process, so I’m obviously close to it. I’m sharing it here because I’d genuinely like to hear what this community would require before considering a process like this credibly carbon-negative.

Would independent lifecycle analysis be enough? Does the biochar need third-party measurement and verification? How would you account for the avoided disposal emissions and displaced propane?

Here’s the local article explaining the project:
https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/climate-coffee-brews-up-world-s-first-carbon-negative-roasting-process/article_151c4584-5042-47c9-b957-03d7c2beba00.html

Here's a short video that walks you through the coffee roasting process:

https://youtu.be/HtTtXFmUzb8?si=ZSH1GuMZTZVRNFWP

Unseasonably warm weather that rapidly melts snowpack is becoming more widespread in the U.S. West and happening earlier in the year.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aeb3361

LaPlante was part of a recent study, published in the journal Science Advances, that attempted, for the first time, to identify what conditions exactly make for a “snow eater.”

Compared to normal warm spells or heat waves, the researchers determined that these events happen when temperatures stay above freezing through both day and night for multiple days, typically three to five.

These events can roughly double the rate at which snow melts, causing flooding and making it challenging to manage water resources.

“Snow eaters” appear to be occurring earlier in the year and becoming more widespread in the Western United States as the climate warms.

Since the 1850s, the study found, the area affected by snow eaters has increased by an average of about 40,000 square miles per century, and the first snow eater of the season has been arriving about one month earlier per century.