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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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Can a colossal extreme weather event galvanize action on the climate crisis? Many extremes over the past 40 years might have triggered transformational change – but didn’t. (yaleclimateconnections.org)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The answer is no.

The reason why is that those in power are exceedingly wealthy, and the wealthy believe that the escalating climate crisis will not affect their standard of living in any meaningful way.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Which means that it takes bottom-up organizing to force politicians to address climate.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

LOL

That's what everyone says, and then they vote for millionaires and multi-millionaires to represent us, as if those people have to listen to you or me about anything.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

They need peoples' votes. Get even fairly modest numbers of people organized, and they pay attention.