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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 Big Oil is using friendly judges to muzzle free speech in the US (www.msnbc.com)
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[–] jonne@infosec.pub 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Amazing, a whole article on this subject and not one mention of Steven Donziger, despite him going to actual prison because he won a court case against Exxon.

[–] BakedGoods@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 years ago

I think the word is corrupt, not friendly.

[–] Cahuin@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is there such a thing as small oil?

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah, there are a bunch of small-scale oil companies in places like Pennsylvania which started extraction early

[–] PlasterAnalyst@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

How do you get as fat as those two cops and how do you keep a job as a cop when you're that fat? I can't even imagine letting myself go as bad as they have. They have to be close to 300 lbs each.