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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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[–] CreamyJalapenoSauce@piefed.social 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think it was Technology Connection's Alec who pointed out something I never thought of. When he talked with people about oil, he realized that he had a preconception that oil was a stepping stone. He assumed that everyone agreed that at some point THE goal in energy production is to replace oil, not add more power sources to it. When he said that, my matching bias was suddenly put in the spotlight. Since then I've wondered how people like Alito don't see this as the obvious next step.

[–] turdburglar@piefed.social 4 points 22 hours ago

that was such a good video.