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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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Feds to close Grand Rapids lab that does global-leading research on forestry, climate change (www.mprnews.org)
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This is part of a broad closure of US Forest Service research stations in order to prevent research on the link between a warmer world and more wildfires.

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[–] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 14 points 2 days ago

If truth threatens the privilege of the oligarchs, truth must be eliminated.

[–] dumnezero@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Privatization

[–] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Nah, this is just straight-up destruction. They don't want to hand the work to crony-capitalists; they want it to cease being done at all.