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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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If So Many Americans Care About Climate, Why Don’t They Vote Like It? 11.2 million. That’s the number of Americans who rank climate as a their top priority but didn’t vote in the 2024 US elections (coveringclimatenow.org)
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[–] TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Also, horrible example, coke is not water, yet you both-sides it because "it is a coke product". Plenty of differences, a lot of them directly affecting people's health. Or perhaps as apt as you obliviousness of how bad of a gaslight it is.

Just say what you mean, "it is a coke product" is a metaphor for "it is influenced by American lobbyists" so you imply people should both-sides it and apply no nuance.

[–] Yuccagnocchiyaki@lemmy.world -2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Hey congrats, we are almost through my first comment.

Now here is the rest that you keep ignoring

"We are at a point where we are literally running against cyberpedophile Nazis that are doing warcrimes, and establishing concentration camps and your “opposition party” is running on “restoring ACA tax credits”

Since Im just a dumb American who doesn’t understand anything, can you please explain to me why the democratic party STRUGGLES to beat what I mentioned above?

Why is their current platform not to “hold immediate trials for treason and warcrimes”, “dismantling concentration camps and locations missing migrants” " delivering free healthcare and education like 85% of Americans want" “taxing billionaires and corporations into submission”, “stopping support for the most hated country and leader in the world, Israel and Netanyahu”

Please explain"

[–] TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

What a garbage spew of accusations. This thread is about climate change, and it's clearly you want to derail with a lot of baggage, which ironically enough, one side is still considerably worse than the other for each and every issue you try to shotgun with. I doubt you are American, and I doubt the why of each needs to be explained in anything other than an theathered echo-chamber.

You are both-siding this and appealing to perfection as a solution, both common appeals used in manipulation, just like the majority of this theater is doing.

Again, and again, and again, and again, and again ...