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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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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Whats funny with coal is im fine if we use it as a base material as long as we don't burn it. Like as feedstock for carbon fiber. Thing is the industry wants to rip it out full speed and burning it is the only process that uses it fast enough for them.

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Does industry even want to do that? Seems like it just isn't worth it given all of the difficulties and expenses involved with using goal. Unless like they want to ban NG for being too woke.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah I doubt they do. It goes back to burning is the only way they can sell as quickly as they want to. Its simply and industry that does not care about tommorrow.