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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] 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

“This is not fraud. This is targeted harassment,” @capitolhunters continued. “The idea of criminalizing community climate work wouldn’t have originated at the FBI—it likely comes from EPA director Lee Zeldin, who today cut all EPA’s environmental justice offices, which try to reduce pollution in poor and minority communities.”

I don't know about other towns, but in our town Habitat for Humanity builds low income housing. smh.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Low income housing is the main goal of Habitat for Humanity. They just signed up to put solar panels on it.

But non-billionaires benefit from that, which is antithetical to the Republican party

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can we... would it work to...umm, maybe just crush them all between two very large stones, like to a paste? Am I being too extreme?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I'd be happy with an FDR-like tax policy which means no more billionaires. But that's been blocked so effectively that I understand the desire for an eat-the-rich type solution.