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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] 20 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

sorry. the climate is gonna have to take a number.

there's a more imminent threat to civilization as we know it that needs to be destroyed first. doing that will help the climate, too.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Both efforts are intertwined and can run in parallel

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I'm more just disgusted with the NYT editorial staff remembering Climate Justice is a thing four months after the election.

The run up to the vote was wall-to-wall "Immigrant Menace!" / "Uppity Transgender!" / "College Antisemitism!" hit pieces. But hey, maybe now we can take a moment to recall that the dwindling NYT readership does still care about liberal policies rather than conservative red meat.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Alas, the NYT readership is not dwindling, but instead their subscriber base is growing quite rapidly

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

This. That the Times has the balls to call this out now is really something.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

that's essentially his superpower. he literally doesn't shut up.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

Wow NYTIMES, fuck you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I read Nudge and enjoyed it, despite agreeing with many of the criticisms of it. The writing style was accessible and entertaining, so I'll probably check this out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago