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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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[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This hag can fuck off, she might be right but she isn't any better than Trump when comes to climate policy.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

She got decent stuff through the House when we pushed for it. The Senate was always where it was tough; it took the vote of an actual coal baron to pass anything

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Be that as it may, she and her generation’s leadership essentially paved the way for the fascists to win, and they are still refusing to own up to that.

[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Still subsidizing the oil and gas industry to the tune of 10s of billions every year, even though they’re the most profitable companies on earth.

Who kept signing off on those subsidies Nancy?

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 months ago

There haven't been the votes for getting rid of those. The arc towards decarbonization legislation has been painfully slow