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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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The planet is overheating. Why is the news looking away? Since 2021, global media coverage of climate change has dropped 38 percent. Blame wars, political chaos, and Jeffrey Epstein. (grist.org)
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[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Sing along if you know the words:

The purpose of news corporations is not to inform. The purpose of news corporations is not to serve the public interest. The highest priority of any news corporation is to make money.

[–] shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works 8 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Basically all media is owned by Billionaires, the ones responsible for boiling the planet and bringing us fascism. Epstein's clients

[–] Tiresia@slrpnk.net 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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Hey now, some of them weren't Epstein clients.

Epstein is just the guy who got caught.

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