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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 Data Centers Set to Burn More Natural Gas Than Most Nations (www.bloomberg.com)
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[–] SmileyRiley@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Ai DoEsN't CaUsE cLiMaTe ChAnGe" fucking idiots I swear Im so tired of this shit. Its not necessary and no amount of "usefulness" (its so barley useful seriously wtf yall are so selfish and lazy) is worth destroying the planet over

[–] Salvo@aussie.zone 5 points 1 week ago

bUt Ai MoDeLs CaN bE uSeD tO pReDiCt ClImAtE cHaNgE!?

oH lOoK!? tHe MoDel pReDiCtEd ThAt ThE wOrLd Is BuRnInG!? lEtS fUcK aRoUnD wItH tHe MoDeL wItH bAd DaTa!? oH lOoK!? tHe MoDeL sAyS tHaT wE cUrEd GlObUlE wAnRiNg!?!?!?

[–] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 5 points 1 week ago

AI has ruined 2 things I love: programming and art. It can fuck off into oblivion and die in a dark corner alone. I am forced to use it at work because the alternative is unemployment, and it’s made everything so fucking dull. Even if it made anything in my life easier, I would still choose to axe it from society.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

And for what? Nothing critical, just amusing pursuits? The next step is to make the data centers more efficient by burning human bodies. /s