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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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[–] doug_fir 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree that the article is not the greatest but it does explain a bit:

Last week, the Clean Budget Coalition – a group of non-profits such as the League of Conservation Voters, Environmental Defense Fund and Public Citizen – identified at least 17 of these “climate poison pills” in appropriation bill drafts. Among them are amendments that would prevent the federal government from purchasing electric vehicles or building EV charging stations; block funding for the Green Climate Fund, which helps developing countries meet their climate goals under the Paris agreement; and prohibit funding for a Department of Energy initiative aiming to send 40% of the overall benefits of certain federal investments to flow to disadvantaged communities.

It sounds like they 1) don't want to support funding anything that hurts the fossil fuel industry or makes us use less oil and 2) don't want to give free climate change mitigation help that goes to communities (instead of business or at all? I don't know). When you put yourself in the mind of someone who doesn't believe humans cause climate change and gets huge amounts of lobbying money from the fossil fuel industry, it makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They could cut subsidies to fossil fuel industry, which would do more to help climate then this exercise.

Neither side is doing anything about dealing with actual culprits. With subsidies, nuclear and renewables can compete properly but this topic does not get any attention from the fake news.

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

That's because the fossil fuels industry bought off all the Republicans and a small number of Democrats. This let them force the Inflation Reduction Act to be all-carrot-no-stick

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

India and Vietnam have higher share of solar in their electricity mix then the US and I kind of doubt they hand out massive subsidies to solar.