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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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Trump named ‘undisputed champion of beautiful clean coal’ by industry group | Award was presented as president directed Pentagon to buy billions of dollars’ worth of energy from coal plants (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

I know this is meant as sarcasm, but honestly I sometimes suspect it's actually to some notable degree true.

First, Trump is collecting so much graft from so many different sources that there's no way he could serve all of their interests, and he likely can't even keep track of them all.

Beyond that though, I think that to some degree he actually pushes for things like coal power and gas-guzzling cars and open discrimination against minorities and LGBTQ+ people living in fear because they're nostalgic reminders of his privileged childhood as an ignorant racist serial-raping piece of shit living off of someone else's money.

You know - as opposed to his more difficult adulthood as an ignorant racist serial-raping piece of shit living off of someone else's money...