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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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[–] BurnTheRight@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thank a conservative. They have fought very hard to stop normal people from fighting climate change.

At this point, if you aren't fighting conservatism, you aren't fighting climate change. Conservatives will kill everyone on the planet if we do not aggressively stop them.

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And they like to play it as if its over the top but its really fighting fascism. Conservatives 50 years ago are different from the nutters now who want dictatorial powers.

[–] BurnTheRight@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago

They're not really that different. Nationalists, racists, homophobes, misogynists, xenophobes, anti-semites... It's the same people. Conservatives. They have always been trash. They just had better PR for a while.