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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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Washington Post gutting its climate team | Clean energy dies in darkness. Courtesy of Jeff Bezos. (www.climatecoloredgoggles.com)
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[–] Pierre121000@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Wow, 30%
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Worth repeating that medias should be owned by their journalists, and financed by giving citizens an allocation that they'll distribute between medias as they see fit, like a vote.
The thing is that it's not a problem of solutions but of will, they want to control us, otherwise they'd improve the current system.

[–] tired_n_bored@lemmy.world 22 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Can we gut Jeff?

[–] foodandart@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Get any an all relatives you have to stop using Amazon, if they do.

My mom is off the grid and she has me order things through Amazon for her occasionally.

Am gonna have to talk to her and see if I can get the items she likes, from different sources.

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Boycotts are notoriously ineffective, especially if they aren't organized, especially if they don't have a set goal. Boycott all you like but don't waste your valuable energy you could be spending organizing, getting involved in local advocacy, joining/building a union and preparing for the revolution - it's coming sooner or later

[–] foodandart@lemmy.zip 2 points 53 minutes ago

Oh yeah.. but NGL, it's the little actions that can snowball. If I can get mom to get her friends groups to move away from Amazon (she only found the items she likes by hearing from a friend that uses Amazon) and opt for secondary sources.. I'll start with that and for sure, am already networking with friends and businesses locally to get people engaged in stopping this goose-stepping march into the 4th Reich we're on..

[–] gaymer@aussie.zone 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

9-5s need to grow a spine and push back. Losers will do anything for money and then keep complaining . Do you think Jeffy boy will do all the work? He need plebs but plebs dont understand how capitalism works.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 hour ago

He fired a large chunk of the WaPo staff today. Not clear if what's left is a viable newspaper

[–] dumnezero@piefed.social 11 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Like the NYT, they weren't that reliable on it either way.

In general, if journalists took climate change seriously, most of media would be about it; most screens would be half about it, with tickers and banners constantly on it. The anti-alarmists are the half-assers who took the air out of it.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago

A big joke about these mainstream publications is how quickly they'd open their pockets to accept fossil fuel industry native advertisement money. WaPo, NYT, WSJ, The Economist, et al - they'd always have some kind of AEI industry flak or Heartland Institute goober or Saudi stooge pen an Op-Ed about how fossil fuels are inescapable and alternatives don't work / cost too much / have a secret downside orders of magnitude worse than O&G.

It was the same "We Report, You Decide" bullshit that FOX News played out in big bold letters for their rube base. The fishwrap editions just knew how to play their cards closer to the chest.