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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] 31 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Should be handled like cigarette ads where an equal amount has to be donated to repair damage

[–] arymandias 22 points 11 months ago

I think the damage done in this case is a little bit more profound.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Get out of here with your reasonable suggestions for real life problems.

Instead the state should raise taxes on poor people and give the money to the oil companies, cause freedom or something.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

Think of how much good you could do with 8 figures, if it wasn't being spent to lie about being good.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The ad blitz – which uses images of farm vehicles, footballers under floodlights and concert goers holding phones lit up

So they spent tens of millions of dollars on stock footage. I've never seen this ad and I know exactly what it's going to look like.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The spending is mostly on putting it in front of people

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Clearly. Unlike that crypto exchange they didn't even bother springing for Matt Damon

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm guessing from your statement that it sounds like a horrible investment. Unless it's to launder money....

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Or their brother-in-law runs the ad agency

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

About to see a whole mess of dudes wearing wraparound sunglasses in their pickup trucks telling us about how manly, free and American™ loving oil is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago