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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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These states could give Big Oil a free pass | State legislatures are pushing bills to block lawsuits over climate damages. Here’s how they could play out. (www.exxonknews.org)
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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 2 points 15 hours ago

Well, hey, these companies need to keep in mind that they’ve got a lot of important and fragile physical infrastructure, and if we can’t make them pay for their bullshit in the confines of the legal system, we’ll ultimately find a way to do it outside of that context.