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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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‘Now is the hour’: Australian Labor urged to speed up fossil fuel phase-out to justify Cop30 pledge (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Why do we need to offset other countries coal use? They're the ones buying it and burning it, not us.

In particular Indonesia:

Yet Indonesia added 1.9 GW of coal capacity in 2024, the third most in the world, behind China and India. Some 80% of this new capacity came from so-called captive coal plants, built specifically to serve industrial estates processing nickel, cobalt and aluminum for the booming electric vehicle market.

https://news.mongabay.com/2025/04/indonesia-defies-global-coal-retreat-with-captive-plant-boom/

How ironic.

Thanks for making Queensland look good I guess? Even our worst state is still doing better than them.

https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/AU-QLD/live/fifteen_minutes