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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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[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"Courts", "Judges", "Law". The US keeps using the old language to legitimize what can only be described as organized crime. The hedge fund, the corrupt judges. Its all just gangsterism beneath the words being used that belong to another time, if ever.

Nothing this corrupt will last.

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The argument that a city should be able to unilaterally define what is or is not a "substantial danger" as a principle of democratic government is a short-sighted one. If a city can do that, then conversely it cannot make plausible promises. A decision to that effect might be good for Oakland, given the hole that Oakland has dug itself into, but it wouldn't be good for cities in general.

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You nailed it with "it cannot make plausible promises" though. So where's the part that an entity that cannot make plausible promises should somehow be liable for hypothetical un-realized profits?

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works -1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Well, fortunately for other cities that don't make a habit of tortious interference, the law actually does hold cities to promises that they make.

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 8 hours ago

^^ Exhibit A why ISDS, the World Bank, IMF, etc are a disease of the mind, not just a mistake. ^^