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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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Donald Trump halts more than $300bn in US green infrastructure funding | New president’s order to pause federal disbursements cuts critical loans and grants to developers (www.ft.com)
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[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 47 points 1 week ago

Idk maybe it's just me but this Trump guy seems like bad news.

[–] danekrae@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"The environment has never said thank you, but my friends will"

[–] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

Thank yous should be in large non-sequential denominations.

[–] BetaBlake@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Making America worse and China better

[–] arin@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

China has been skyrocketing the last 5 years

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Handing the keys to the future to China on day 1.

Thanks conservatives.