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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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Experts say climate change bigger threat to biodiversity than renewable energy projects (www.abc.net.au)
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[โ€“] budget_biochemist@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If you're not from Australia - there is a lot of opposition from farming and rural communities in general to renewable energy infrastructure. We've had lots of issues with rural groups organising misinformation-fuelled intimidation of people building renewables. There is a need to counter that with more information about how climate change is going to be a lot worse for farming and the rural landscape.

Some background in this article from our ABC: Dangerous anti-renewables rhetoric, bullying and intimidation creates growing chasm in rural communities

[โ€“] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 months ago

I'm from the US, and there is a bunch of pushback from rural and farmers here as well. I understand it but I still am just utterly ashamed at our institutions of authority that don't just tell these idiots whose objections are centered on fallacy and ignorance to just shut the fuck up.

Idiots don't tend to care about facts or logic, they care about how that information makes them feel and other arbitrary bullshit that an educated society shouldn't pay any mind to.