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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] 123 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Friendly reminder that Exxon themselves independently discovered their own business contributes to climate change waaaayy before it became the political trap it is now. He is arguing in bad faith and knows it too. Hold his feet to the fire

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The infuriating thing is the oil industry was (and still is) well positioned to do something about it. To build offshore wind farms you need people experienced with building structures offshore. Which the oil industry has. To transport hydrogen over land you need people who can build pipelines. Which the oil industry has. To transport Hydrogen overseas you need some chemical engineers to figure out how to get it into a forma they can easily transport (Ammonia maybe?). Which the oil industry has. Geothermal? Well you need people that are experienced in drilling into the ground... which yeah...

But you'd need to have a lot of money to invest into these projects... oh wait they have that too, don't they?

The only problem was these projects would take time to start turning a profit and they only care about quarterly profits for just long enough to get their golden parachutes.

So basically the oil industry has what's needed to solve the problem... they just don't wanna.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

This is the primary reason governments worldwide need to introduce a carbon tax. There are legitimate uses for petrochemicals and plastics, but to save the planet carbon capture and diverse energy production are needed yesterday

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

they just don’t wanna.

The fossil fuel companies tried it and found out renewables don't have the same return on investment that they're accustomed to, so they stopped with renewable projects.

So yes, all about money.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I don't like feet, they creep me out. But I'll gladly eat some drumstick or thigh.

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

Pickled Exxon feet ….gross lol

[–] _haha_oh_wow_ 9 points 5 months ago

Everything about Exxon is gross.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Sometimes we all have to do things we don't like for the greater good. Now eat your portion of feet and get over it.

[–] n3m37h 72 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Can we just hang this moron by his testicles?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

what a ball head.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Lmao classic response from Big Oil. These fuckers have been jerking each other off for forever now trying to figure out how to keep the Rockefeller dream alive

Wish we could treat the rot already

[–] _haha_oh_wow_ 32 points 5 months ago

"Hey poors, I dare you to eat me!"

-Darren Woods pretty much

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago

The public is to blame for climate change. It hasn't eaten him yet.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago

Well, somehow he is right: all over the world, the excessive greed of these scoundrels has been allowed to continue for far too long.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I think vlad the impaler had a better method that would be better

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

I keep reading "furry".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

the word fury has really lost some of its power, huh ?