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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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[–] AuroraZzz@lemmy.world 46 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I like how when the bounty hunters want to cross state lines to capture pregnant women in blue states, the red states are all in, but now that the blue states have sued the red states to stop polluting, the red states say things have gone too far

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

States right are exactly like your rights as far as these people are concerned. You can only have them if they are the same as mine. If not get fucked.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 28 points 1 month ago

Behold, naked greed on display.

[–] Beaver@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago

Republicans playing dirty like always.

[–] InternetUser2012@midwest.social 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They must have paid the bounty to tRump and his red hat dunce cap minions are following orders.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago

More that the oil companies pay them off

[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Republicans doing EVERYTHING they can to PROTECT BIG OIL is PROOF that DEMOCRATS are the Swamp!