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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] 10 points 1 month ago

If they want bury their heads in the sand like fucking idiots, fine. I don't care if they have the wrong reasons, as long as they do the right thing.

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

No mention of nuclear energy? I know Wisconsin has some nuke plants that provide a lot of power. I’ve heard the farming-heavy population prefers it because the land use is much lower than solar. Land that could be used for farming and ranching.

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

Solar I understand the argument there, but for wind surely you can graze animals or grow plants around the turbines.