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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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Fossil fuel firms may have to pay for climate damage under proposed UN tax (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 17 hours ago

Basically a carbon tax?

[–] bridgeburner@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Which means the consumer will pay for it cos the fossil fuel firms will just raise prices on all of their products accordingly, rip

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 12 points 19 hours ago

Like cigarettes taxes, the main effect is to cause people to quit so that they don't pay the tax