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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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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago

They have our money, and it should be used to pay for remediation. Soon.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

C'mon Canada, let's do this here!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

I like it. More please

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

And we watch, hopeful, as the days scorch the Earth. How long will the watchers keep watching?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why shame only Big Oil? Small Oil destroys the planet too.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Big oil is doing it much faster.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Which would you rather fight, 1 horse sized oil or 100 duck sized oils?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

The 1 horse sized oil sounds easier to keep track of so I vote the horse.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And everyone cared! .... For about 5 minutes, then we were at the next news item and forgot all about this again.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

It takes not just doing something like this once, but again and again until it sinks into public consciousness and is seen as just something everyone knows