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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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[–] reluctant_squidd@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 month ago

It’s not like he’s going to be around long enough to see the fallout. I guess it’s easier to fleece a dying industry now and let some ‘woke’ democrat deal with the repercussions later.

[–] mikenurre@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

Thank God someone is putting profits over the future of the planet! /s

[–] chaoticnumber@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There was that saying that a healthy society is one where man plants trees whose shades they won't live to see, or something along those lines.

Trump is planting the seed of destruction he won't be around to see the effects of, the literal opposite.

I guess we don't live in a healthy society. SHOCKING

[–] griff@lemmings.world 5 points 1 month ago

burn on, big planet…

[–] compostgoblin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nothing surprises me any more. I no longer expect good things to happen or anything to get better. I see all these headlines and just think “yeah, that may as well happen.” What a joy, to know that this isn’t just the worst year of my life, it’s the best year of the rest of my life.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Delaying the inevitable while destroying our planet. Smart move.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

Trump wants to shit in every well. Probably on your coffee table too.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

And with that were going to party like it's 1888!

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Make black lung great again!