Most countries including the US are deploying record amounts of renewables. But the climate conversation is definitely reduced, and that's global. Its been a good while since I saw angsty euro teens throwing tomato soup on paintings or gluing themselves to motorways. That used to be a monthly occurance.

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latexr 18 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The US still produces more than half (58%) of its electricity from fossil fuels. In the EU, it’s less than a third (29%).

https://ember-energy.org/countries-and-regions/united-states...

https://ember-energy.org/countries-and-regions/european-unio...

In the EU I hear of new climate initiatives all the time. From the US every bit of news I know about is how they’re making it worse.

	▲	vixen99 17 hours ago \| parent [-]
		What is the effect of the new climate initiatives? Undoubtedly $trillions have been spent on what might be termed 'fighting climate change' by all means possible. Looking at the Mauna Loa data on C02, can anyone see any effect at all? https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/. I merely present this as an observation. In other words, your comment is spot on at least with respect to the EU.

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pjc50 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That was .. last year?

There's a "top of stack" effect in that there can be only a certain number of issues which are most important in discourse, and the Israel/Iran situation has taken over the top of discourse as has the US President.

A vital part of good governance is caring about things which aren't in today's newspaper.

	▲	missedthecue 18 hours ago \| parent [-]
		No, it was more of a 2023 thing, which is now three years ago. It had definitely calmed down by 2025 too. Iran situation is only a few days old.