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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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Does Burning Wood Actually Fight Climate Change? Despite industry claims, scientists say using wood pellets is little better than fossil fuels. (thetyee.ca)
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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Proponents of such plants claim that burning wood is a climate-friendly alternative to burning coal, oil or natural gas because any greenhouse gas emissions associated with burning wood are later offset by newly planted, carbon-storing trees.

God I'm so fucking tired of these dumbass liberals. CARBON OFSETS ARE WORTHLESS SCAMS. All the calculations on how much we can emit to stay below 2° rely on existing carbon sinks remaining there. If you want to make offsets valid you have to consider every single source of carbon (animals, volcanos, etc.) and offset that too.

[–] cheat700000007@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

And my ass! Wonder how many offsets I need to buy to make up for chili.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

*laugh track*

[–] cheat700000007@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

On a more serious note, is there any size data center that burning it down would put more carbon into the atmosphere than running it?