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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 Trump dismantled a promising energy industry — and what America lost (www.canarymedia.com)
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The demolition of the offshore wind sector in 2025 will reverberate for decades, resulting in lost jobs, higher utility bills, and less reliable power grids.

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[–] RePsyche@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

Criminal.

[–] MyOpinion@lemmy.myserv.one 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I look forward to never seeing another Republican in the White House.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 months ago

While i agree that that’s the best outcome we can hope for, you’re kidding yourself if you think the American electorate is not going to find a way to consistently fuck things going forward.