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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] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why are we even entertaining the question? Why are we so desperate to try and reason out this demented sociopath’s crooked power trip?

Of course it will be disastrous. Many will suffer, many will die. Anyone who doesn’t know that already is a child, a fool, or a trump voter.

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

Two of those were redundant 🙂

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

Hot tip.. it will harm it, then after 4 consecutive years of weather events, the other mob will get voted in and try repair it, and the cycle continues

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Without even reading it, I'm sure it boils down to

"Stuff is happening"

Gov: "Nuh uh"