this post was submitted on 02 Jan 2024
154 points (98.1% liked)

Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.

5023 readers
420 users here now

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.

Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:

Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
154
‘You can be happy in prison’: climate protester reflects on punishment (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
7 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Last year, Morgan Trowland was one of two Just Stop Oil protesters sentenced to more than two and a half years in prison for scaling the Dartford crossing.

The sentences handed down to Trowland and Marcus Decker are the longest sentences yet given to non-violent protesters in the UK. Now, after his release on licence last month, Trowland says the 13 months he spent behind bars hardly felt like punishment at all.

all 8 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 33 points 8 months ago

Damn, the balls on that lad. Glad he's fighting the good fight.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago

That's a lot of time, come on man....

Glad on him for taking it on the chin.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Prison shouldn't be a punishment tho

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

"It's fine, the bars are meant to separate good from bad people"

Thoreau (analogously)

Sorry for the bite, just spelling out what it implies for me: It invites everyone to ponder why you are on the other side and what you are doing with that privilege.

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

Next up: the UK brings back hard-labour sentences

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Really interesting, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Free Marcus, fuck these draconian sentences.