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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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What’s the Cost to Society of Pollution? Trump Says Zero. He directed agencies to stop estimating the economic impact of climate change when developing policies and regulations. (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] deepmud@mas.to 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@silence7 to be fair to #47, if we all get cancer, then another rich guy goes "ka-ching!"

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not just cancer; its a very quantifiable death count

[–] federalreverse@feddit.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's so weird how their ideology on the one hand appears to prescribe people like Musk creating a "legion" of their own offspring but also killing all the rest of us, including not just their political opponents but also their own voters and even people abroad.