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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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As countries scramble to secure oil, gas and fertilizer, China’s bets on clean energy and coal are cushioning its dependence on oil and gas imports.

The coal part isn't so great though.

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[–] Greyghoster@aussie.zone 1 points 4 hours ago

I have solar panels, batteries and an EV, have to agree, the oil price is an indirect threat to me as the fluctuations don’t get me day to day.

[–] Ilixtze@lemmy.ml 5 points 14 hours ago

I remember when the murricans were saying that china was wasting money on all that clean energy =,D

[–] certified_expert@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

That was their game from the begining