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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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[โ€“] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When resources run short and very difficult decisions must be made regarding who around you should suffer so your family can live, remember your conservative neighbors did this.

Conservatives (including neo-liberals) refused to allow normal people to make changes or to pass regulations. They refused to even allow the discussion of change. They killed us and they mocked us as they did it. Decade after decade, conservatives did the bidding of their corporate benefactors, aggressively preventing the rest of us from addressing the problem at all. They should pay with what little resources they may have remaining, if that difficult decision must ever be made.

[โ€“] fr0g@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Always eat the billionaires first.