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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] 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And complete silence from the current administration.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh, they're not silent; they're in favor of this outcome:

To applause from oil and gas executives, Chris Wright said natural gas was preferable to renewable energy and climate change was a “side effect of building the modern world.”

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

lest we forget the shareholders

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You can repeat this for the next 50 or so years.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

in about 20 or so there won't be anyone left to repeat it

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

looks at the chunk of earth and other body orbiting us I think we've been hotter /s