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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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4 ways Trump is sabotaging climate action around the world (grist.org)
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In just the last year, the Trump administration has derailed an international carbon tax, boosted forecasts for oil and gas, and sought to silence an island nation’s climate campaign.

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

War is bad for the climate, and the plug is almost certainly temporary, unfortunately.

Trump is losing a lot of political capital here, but TBH I think he’s being used by everyone. US petrol got far more they paid for, Tech is getting what they paid for, and someone else will just take his place…

TVH, I hope Trump makes it.

Hell, Id rather have him for a third term than JD Vance for the next. Vance scares the shit out of me.