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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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Meanwhile, they're going to intentionally extinct a species of whale for the oil industry

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[–] Asafum@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Are you there yet, Americans?

30% of us will never be there, and it's because they seek confirmation of their initial bias from chosen media outlets that only exist to keep Republicans in power. Fox News, OANN, Newsmax, and now soon to be CNN, CBS, etc... they all exist to protect the ~~oligarchs~~ Republicans power. Lucky for them 30% is all you need to stay in power forever apparently...

It's only going to get worse.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It’s only going to get worse.

Correct. That's why the best time to act was a few years ago and the second best time is fucking now.

Americans keep clinging to their terrible status quo seemingly not understanding they will eventually lose that as well as the Fascist regime of the Orange pedophile continues

[–] Asafum@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Right, but that 30% of people that will never change are stopping us via their electoral advantage. The only other option is violence.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Since apathy has been the ruling force of the American people for the last 25 years, yes maybe violence is the only option left.

You have allowed the wound to rot and fester, maybe the only choice left is amputation