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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] 19 points 1 week ago

This is what happens when everything is subordinated to the logic of capitalism. If investors are not seeing short-term gains, then long-term problems be damned.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

Because they just got a free pass for 4 more years minimum of doing whatever the fuck they want.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

weewe sowwyyyyy

BP was never sorry and one day will pay for the damage they've caused

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

The company might one day pay but the individuals responsible for its behavior will almost certainly not, except if they're still alive when climate change kills them as well as the rest of us.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

So British Petroleum is gonna stick to Petroleum? Huh who would have thought....

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

And this is why you should never accept promises

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

great! hope they go broke :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago