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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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60 Countries to Meet on Phasing Out Fossil Fuels but Are Excluding the U.S. (www.nytimes.com)
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The Trump administration was not invited to the gathering in Santa Marta, Colombia. A White House spokeswoman called the green transition “destructive.”

Agreement to conduct the necessary phase out is probably not possible if a country run for the benefit of the oil industry is involved in any meaningful way

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[–] Carmakazi@piefed.social 10 points 3 weeks ago

Other countries need to move forward not only without the US, but with the expectation that the US will actively use subterfuge and violence to sabotage global efforts, as we already have.

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You would think that the Trump administration would be in favour of destructive policies.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 8 points 3 weeks ago

They only want destruction when its racist or favors the fossil fuels industry