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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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Is the FBI Investigating Environmental Activists: A recent visit by an FBI agent to a climate activist hints at a broadening Trump administration effort to target political opponents. (insideclimatenews.org)
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[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Telling the truth will never be wrong: fossil emissions warm the globe, which changes climates from what they'd be otherwise.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Heh. Like this is something new under Trump.

[–] discocactus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

It's just the corporate cartel going gloves off with dissidents. They'll use ICE as a smokescreen and pick up whoever seems like they're gaining traction against tptb. Might even dial it back again after Trump to keep the masses pacified, but if you're a soft target high on the list you'd be wise to practice good opsec and CC.