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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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[–] amos@slrpnk.net 12 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Greta is honestly one of my heroes. The amount of hate that she got growing up, from right wing pedophiles(-protectors) is astonishing. And she persevered! All she did was point to the climate science. She tried to improve the world for both everyone alive and those yet to come. And she got hate for it.

Whenever a person tells me that they don't like Greta, I know that I won't like that person.

[–] slevinkelevra@sh.itjust.works 2 points 14 hours ago

Whenever a person tells me that they don't like Greta, I know that I won't like that person.

There are quite a few people around here with "Fuck you Greta" bumper stickers. It has never been so easy to avoid human garbage.

[–] osanna@thebrainbin.org 9 points 18 hours ago

Land of the free, y'all

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 10 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

These guys (the state) really don't understand the social contract do they..

[–] Tiresia@slrpnk.net 4 points 17 hours ago

Ask the ghosts of a million massacred native Americans if the social contract matters. Their silence is your answer.

The "social contract" is gaslighting, blaming the victims of state violence when they are at best made to sign under duress and at worst simply oppressed. It is the words of an abuser to their golden child.

I know as a former golden child how hard it can be to face it. Our acceptance of their narrative has kept us safe at times, and to see that liberalism is gaslighting means giving up on that layer of protection. The state can hurt us, the state will hurt us, but the one way out is... not safe to write down within its walls.

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

One of the few groups I donate to. Am I on a list now !

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 12 hours ago

They're actively monitoring social media for "antifa" so probably got on their list long ago.

[–] notsosure@sh.itjust.works 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Hmm and here’s me thinking Trump was all for free speech.

[–] nous@programming.dev 4 points 16 hours ago

Free speech for him, not for you.