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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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US Planning First New Coal Power Plant Since 2013, in Alaska (www.bloomberg.com)
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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The fact that we built one in 2013 is embarrassing

The fact that we’re building one now is both embarrassing and predictable

[–] Greyghoster@aussie.zone 5 points 21 hours ago

Be interesting to see how the economics work for it. They aren’t built overnight and the world is moving faster to renewables every day. It may never be commissioned as it is a white elephant.