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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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US Supreme Court Judge Sam Alito has an oil money problem | 30 percent of Alito’s individual stock portfolio is directly tied to fossil fuels. (heated.world)
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[–] SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 50 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Members of Congress shouldn't own stock, neither should Supreme Court Justices. It's effectively a life appointment, they are well compensated, and there's obvious conflicts of interest. Money and justice don't mix well.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 11 points 16 hours ago

They should be allowed to invest in broad index funds. Shit that goes up when the economy is good and down when it's bad.

And maybe gvt bonds.

[–] bright_side_@piefed.world 6 points 15 hours ago

Or any politician...