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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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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

suggesting drastic changes, such as not waiting for market forces to transition away from fossil fuels, but instead suggest governments globally super-charge the build-out of renewable energy sources.

We can already expect USA to say "NOOOOOOOO, MAH PROFEEEETS!!! YOU'RE HURTING MAH PROFEEEEEEETS!!!"

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Pretty much all industrialists, tech-bros, and billionaires will be screeching that the world over, as there's virtually no place left that isn't chock full of multinational corporations. I guess they turned out to be the final boss for humanity.

I'm rooting for us pulling through, but it'll take global grassroots organizing, militant unions, and a shit ton of mutual aid to prevent them from literally killing us all due to their mindless greed and lust for power.