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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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Only 4% of national TV news segments about Hurricane Beryl mentioned climate change (www.mediamatters.org)
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Shutting up about it won't make it go away. Live in your bubble all you want, but it won't save you from the next tornado barelling down your main street and wrecking whatever podunk town you may live in. Prayer, likewise, will not help you.

Deny reality all you want, but it will be rough when you're eventually confronted with the cold hard facts when they smack you right the face at 90 miles an hour.

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

Surely, if we discriminate against the gays hard enough, this will all go away, right?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Finally a comment without the /s that i don’t think needed it…. Unless you were being serious..

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

Sorry, No time to chat. Gotta grab my AR-15 and coal roll my pickup to Walmart to pick up some ammo from the vending machine!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Um… once again… not sure.

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

I wonder how much is this due to local news channels being owned by the Sinclair group?