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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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[–] Five@slrpnk.net 11 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

“it is easy to call land stolen, but what about the innocent purchasers who acquired in good faith in the interim? Are they thieves?”

This is the kind of shit that makes me think capitalists don't actually believe in property. They only have an issue with theft when the loot isn't laundered properly. 'Civilization' is just a word that means 'fence' to them.

[–] jimmy90@lemmy.world -3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

europe is going to be busy; lemmy is sending all the non native people back from america and israel

we better start building houses

[–] Five@slrpnk.net 4 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

"We can't return what we stole, if we did, they'd do ethnic cleansing to us."

-- jimmy90

[–] MrWrinkles@leminal.space 0 points 15 hours ago

God bless George Washington!