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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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Fossil fuel industry using ‘disinformation campaign’ to slow green transition, says UN (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Well, shock me coloured, that IS a big surprise.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Has anyone else read “Ministry for the Future,” by Kim Stanley Robinson? It is depressingly realistic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Elsewhere in the world, they've gone as far as to have activists murdered. We need to be realistic about the kind of people we're dealing with.