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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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[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Whether that makes sense depends a lot on which country. Some Green parties (Notably in the US) behave as if they're intentional spoilers to make the worst viable candidates win. Other countries, it makes a lot of sense.

[–] HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 1 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

UK green party

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Know your constituency. They're viable in some, but not all.

[–] HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 2 points 8 hours ago

Doesn't matter who I vote for here, no one I respect has any chance of winning, so I will just vote green as its +1 vote nationally I guess.

[–] knowone@slrpnk.net 1 points 16 hours ago

Well of England and Wales. Scottish Greens are a different party. Just to be pedantic