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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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Election of Donald Trump ‘could put world’s climate goals at risk’ (www.theguardian.com)
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If you're an American, and you want to stop Trump, it's important to be actively involved:

  • Check your voter registration - there's been an active effort to purge voter rolls, and if you moved or changed name, you'll need to register again anyways
  • Talk with people you know about voting for Democrats up and down the ballot. Personal endorsement matters.
  • Volunteer — it makes a real difference
  • If you can afford it, donate to the Biden campaign. Even fairly modest amounts of money from a lot of people add up to being able to hire staff and run ads.
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[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&s=mcrfpus2&f=m let's petroleum production as at a near all time high. Let's not pretend Biden is doing a bang up job on climate. We need more seats in Congress on top of the Presidency to make meaningful change.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

He's not perfect, but petroleum is only part of it. What he's done has been to put in place the policies which will enable future decarbonization

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's better than Republican policy, but it's not where it could be with a representative further left on the spectrum.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

That would only work if there was a majority for left-wing policy. Simply having a president who's further on the left would not actually change that much of they have to find compromises with people who don't care about the physical reality.