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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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"Alarm bells ringing" as report finds greenhouse gas emissions growing faster than ever (www.salon.com)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Remember, conservatives did this. If not for conservatives worldwide, normal people would be able to proactively address this.

When we are starving and potable water is scarce, be sure to aggressively thank a conservative neighbor for involuntarily sharing all their resources with the normal people.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Capitalism did this, conservatives simply defend capitalism as it's the most effective form of feudalism.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

And the liberals/democratic/centrist oppositions parties around the world are also complicit in maintaining the status quo.