this post was submitted on 27 Sep 2024
140 points (98.6% liked)

Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.

5237 readers
451 users here now

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.

Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:

Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
140
Just Stop Oil activists jailed for throwing soup over Van Gogh’s Sunflowers (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
67 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

This was the one soup-throwing which did any damage at all; in this case to the frame.

The penalty is appreciably worse than for minor violent attacks.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The boycott makes a innocent sufferer of the bus company. Had the company defiled city and state laws its franchise would have been canceled. The quarrel of the Negroes is with the law. It is wrong to hold the company hostage.

-The Montgomery Advertiser, Montgomery Alabama, Dec 8, 1955

The white man's economic artillery is far superior, better emplaced, and commanded by more experienced gunners.

Second, the white man holds all the offices of government machinery. There will be white rule for as far as the eye can see.

Are these not the facts of life?

Let us be specific, concrete. What is the cost is the bus boycott to the Negro community? Does any Negro leader doubt that the resistance to the registration of Negro voting has been increased? Is economic punishment of the bus company - an innocent hostage to the laws and customs of Alabama - worth the price of a block to the orderly registration of Negro voters?

-The Montgomery Advertiser, Montgomery Alabama, Dec 13, 1955

Posting this for no particular reason every time I see folks complaining about protestors "not protesting the right way"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

People who get angry at Just Stop Oil tactics are just showing their ignorance of civil rights and protest history.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Re: protest history: Like how the suffragettes sent letter bombs to people? It is not a cut and dry, "I'm right, therefore anything I do is unimpeachable."

Nobody deserves a free pass to use any means they deem necessary by virtue of fighting for what we/they consider the "right things."

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 month ago

Yeah I just pissed on some lady to stop big oil. Like The Civil Rights Protestors!! And they’re telling me I protested wrong! HA!!