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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€“] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I held my nose and voted for Harriss. I guess Newsom smells slightly less of cop, but he has worse baggage versus trans people, immigrants, the homeless, and fucking-solar-panels-of-all-things("Climate Warrior"? REALLY!?), for starters.

I guess I could tolerate him as a lame-duck while we wait for the last of the old-guard and their boomer lackeys to die-off, as was my hope for Kamala. Been almost 30-years since I locked-in on the idea that individual states will have to step-up if anything resembling modern human civilization, let alone Human Rights, are to survive.

Of course, the way the human rights fights are going, modern civilization looks debatable as an asset or liability. Gimme Solar Punk, damn-it.

[โ€“] Red_October@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Sorry, best we can do is cyberpunk dystopia without literally any of the good parts.