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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] -3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

My guess is that they will get serious about it right about the same time as a dense pockets of CO2 begin to roll across the planet and suffocate everything in their path.

Don't forget, they want to decrease the number of people living on the planet. Their eyes glisten with the idea of cheap real estate and scared people willing to do their every bidding.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

No? If real estate prices fall because demand falls because the number of potential home buyers fall, they don't benefit. A reduction in demand due to fewer buyers is a net zero for them, actually it's a loss if they are holding real estate.

They want MORE people making LESS money each and prices of things to be MORE. This enables maximum extraction of wealth from individual workers until we get back to company towns and functional slavery.