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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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Under Trump, U.S. Adds Fuel to a Heating Planet (www.nytimes.com)
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The president’s embrace of fossil fuels and withdrawal from the global fight against climate change will make it hard to keep warming at safe levels, scientists said.

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[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, why do you think ~~he~~ his handlers wants to own Greenland (and why putin thinks climate change is good for russia)? At this rate, the only inhabitable parts of the planet are going to be the poles and it's going to be a miserable existence for what's left of humanity living in the arctic(s).

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure he gets any of that; a big chunk of the Greenland desire might simply be because he doesn't understand how the Mercator projection distorts area.

[–] The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 2 points 2 months ago

he wants it because that's the easiest way to break up NATO, and because daddy Putin wishes it