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Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.

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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[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago

Biggest balls? Really? They are actually a large part of why we're still so dependent on fossil fuels. If they had the balls to accept nuclear is in fact the faaaaar lesser evil, we could've ditched fossil fuel for electricity generation completely by now. Instead we have countries ramping up coal usage and building new gas power plants to replace their nuclear plants. And they still see this as a win.

Those nuclear plants will be indispensable once we start having entire fleets of 18-wheelers recharging at night.

Agree with their battle. It's necessary. Just not with what they've pushed the past 30-odd years.