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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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How to design climate-friendly emails (uxdesign.cc)
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[–] federalreverse@feddit.de 11 points 2 years ago

"Let's design better emails for climate" is not a great take. For starters, consider not sending those promotional mails at all, because likely most of your emissions are associated with the product you're selling; and yeah, capitalism is the ultimate issue here. (Also, if you're putting third party trackers into your mails I hate you anyway.)

And then if we're strictly looking at IT... So much energy is pissed away for video streams, huge databases, blockchains, and AI. Those semi-legitimate marketing mails probably don't even register next to mails that are strictly spam.