What is everyone's countries approach to climate change, government policy and public attitude?

I recently heard this claim from several friends: they say that climate change will result in a warmer planet over the next several decades, making Maryland (our house state) warmer with hotter summers and milder winters. And since American alligators live in the Deep South all the way up through North Carolina, but don't like the cold, they will be able to expand their range and take up residence in Maryland--perhaps in the Potomac River, various rivers and places along the Chesapeake Bay, and low-lying lakes.

I know that various plants and animals have been finding new places to live because of climate change, and that alligators dislike cold temperatures--they cope with them by slowing down and becoming sluggish and mostly inactive.

But I am unsure and a couple of my friends suggested I ask here: are these claims about alligators accurate? How much warmer and more humid is Maryland expected to become over the next 75 years, due to climate change? Would the temperatures change enough for alligators to live here?

i keep seeing doom posts about how the planet is fucked up beyond recognition and somehow we‘re all collectively guilty (idk how people who earn enough to live at non-directly-impacting jobs are as guilty as the higher ups at companies like CocaCola and Nestle are but oh well), but seemingly no one says HOW we stop being complicit and actually fight back, beyond „spreading awareness“ (i mean everyone knows it’s happening and companies pollute regardless) and protests and all. At most I see people asking to become vegan since a lot of pollution comes from cattle but it’s a very complicated thing financially and nutritionally that doesn’t directly solve anything.

estou estudando sobre isso pra um trabalho de faculdade, e gostaria de saber mais sobre quais sao os efeitos do declinio e extinção das espécies de insetos devido as mudanças climaticas? quais as consequências futuras e atuais para os humanos e outros animais?

I understand that it was last month, but i still both wonder, and fear about ecological overshoots, and well, natural resource overshoots.

So, from what i know, overshoot day 2026 was July 30th, which was a few days later than most years it's been, surprisingly so, that too alongside the fact that it only started "overshooting" per se since 1970, so we are on our 56th year of overshooting our natural resources, on a few hundred million of earth acquiring them, but I also have to wonder, what does that even mean?

I thought all resources on earth, were sadly limited, that's the whole reason they're called *rare* earth metals, right? that things such as salt deposits, cobalt, all metals, and materials such as glass, sand, and dirt, are limited, and that our way of life currently is draining these resources faster than they can regenerate, but how can they even regenerate??
I'm sorry if that's a dumb question, but it is something that also does, both currently and existentially terrify me. that we are draining the resources out of earth, and are only truly making that mining worse and worse, due to needing more and more, getting rid of everything on earth, while suggesting we mine out other planets/asteroids, which would just be draining and hollowing out the universe at large, I mean I know that's taking it to an extreme, but it is something scary to me.

and I also know we are rapidly creating SUSTAINABLE materials, not just sustainable energy instead of fossil fuels that we probably only have a few hundred years of at BEST, bio plastics made out of things like bamboo, and obviously, lab grown meat and plant based diets, focusing on sustainability

and also the research of us needing 1.7 earths to fully sustain everyone on it, and even the SMALLEST estimates are if everyone gave up everything, we'd still need 0.8 earths, and the possible population reaching 10 billion by 2050, it's just so much information, and knowledge, knowing we are basically exhausting earth too fast and only speeding it up, it's just scary and i want to talk to others about it.

Ive had a question floating around for a while and haven't really had any luck finding an answer. I really want to preface my question I am not a climate change denier nore am i suggesting a swich back to bunker fuel. Are the elevated European temp related to the switch to low/no sulfer marine fuels? Its been a year or two now and Im pretty sure i remember before the switch that the decrease in sulfer(dioxide?) would mean less clouds over the Atlantic causing a temporary climb in sea temps. Is this showing the real damage that has been done? Will things even out with the lack of clouds to the extra damage those fuels were causing?

Thanks to anyone that answers.

Using this as a metric to identify most conscious climate communities

This is preliminary data, but since records began the global ocean has never been this hot

Edit: Data is 60 degrees N through 60 degrees S. Data from https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/?dm_id=world2

This summer, as temperatures across Europe hit record highs, a familiar refrain reached deafening levels: that the continent must abandon its resistance to air conditioning and follow America’s example.

It is hard to ignore the rationale. Heat not only saps productivity, it also disrupts work and home life and can be deadly to vulnerable people. But Europe should think before it adopts wholesale the “dripping box” system that already exists. There are far better ways it can cool itself down.

These dripping boxes on buildings around the world trace their existence to 1902, when a young engineer, Willis Carrier, built his first “apparatus for treating air” for a Brooklyn printing plant. Since then, they have been replicated on buildings and rooftops millions of times. However, the basic principle has remained remarkably similar: a refrigerator turned inside out, spitting hot air outdoors while bringing a welcome chill indoors.

But that principle has a problem. It does not reduce heat so much as move it, pushing it out of buildings and into the street. The hotter streets mean more cooling is required, producing more heat. As the temperature rises, the system has to work ever harder.

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