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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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How Does Your State Make Electricity? America isn’t making electricity the way it did two decades ago. (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What terrible graphs.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I read your comment before clicking on the article, and I thought "how bad could they be?"

These have me in tears.... Lol

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

They are ugly, but they also tell an important story, which is the decline of coal, and (in some areas) rise of wind and solar.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Love the "gas" label in your second picture. There was no need at all to tilt letters, but I guess it would not keep the theme of "thrown together" if it was straight text.

Also what is with all that background white in between the graphs? Is it electricity demand that didn't get meet by any means? Asking jokingly.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

You’d think that 100% height graphs (or whatever they’re called) didn’t exist

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I honestly can't believe those are real graphs. Looks like Ms paint and that Amiga 500 program had a baby that was dropped on his head