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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] 47 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Buddy, every CEO is why we shouldn't cast any CEO as any kind of savior.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

Dude no fucking shit. Who thinks CEOs are going to do fuck all about climate change? They’re the most detrimental force to the climate of all fucking time, chronically across the board. It’s pretty much a given if you’re part of the ruling class that you’re bad for the environment.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, who still believes this, besides maybe corporate PR departments?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

I’ve met people in real life who still have a positive view of this slime ball.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Cast em like this instead

Han solo frozen in carbonite

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Maybe if they fire him st the sun

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Did anybody at anypoint cast any CEO as a Climate Savior?

If only Al Gore had won.. (not just the popular vote that is)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Maybe we should cast them into the sun instead.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Wtf. Nobody thought Musk was pro climate. He bought a space rocket company ffs.

Pretty obvious he doesn't give a shit about the climate..