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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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[–] normanwall@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Dishonesty through omission because they don't want to lose money from people who've been brainwashed

WWJD?

[–] French75@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago

Church is fiction for profit. It's foundation is dishonesty. This one 'dishonesty through omission' is a rounding error. You can't expect them to have any sense of shame about this.

[–] gid@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago

There are actually churches who think Jesus was too "woke".

It's a truism but there's no hate like Christian love.

[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 4 points 1 day ago

The cathedral near me has a big sign saying "no new coal and gas"

[–] U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

because if they talk about it, then their congregation will leave and go to a non-woke church

and of course the church leaders care, not because of "spreading the good news" or anything, but because of $$$

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Cowards, according to their own beliefs God will judge them for abdicating their responsibility to their congregation to guide them from suffering to spiritual enlightenment.

Do they think God is approving of how we treat this precious gift he gave us that is Earth? Not to mention how we treat fellow humans...