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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] 9 points 1 hour ago (3 children)

I find it really baffling that climate change denial is so strong in America given the ectreme effects the country is already seeing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 35 minutes ago

Actually those hurricanes are caused by gay sex and women having abortions. /s

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

Unfortunately, Republicans have spent decades systematically destroying public education in this country, and this is the end result. When Trump said "I love the poorly educated" back in 2016 he wasn't really saying anything new or breaking from the mainstream GOP stance... He was just honest about it, unlike the rest of the GOP who have always described their supporters with cynical euphemisms like "salt of the earth" and "regular folk" when they really mean ignorant rubes.

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

Because that's work of Soros, chemtrails and HAARP /s

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 hours ago

Even the oil companies admit the climate is changing, they just refuse to take responsibility. These clowns are in straight up denial mode. Just pretend the hurricanes aren't there and disregard your thermometers. It will all be fine. Oops, ignore that forest fire... it's, uh, just an illusion.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 minutes ago

I just saw this movie a day or 2 after the election. I felt it would have been funnier had the outcome been different, but now it feels less like satire.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 49 minutes ago
[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 hours ago

There's no climate crisis, but guys, there are evil Democrat controlled weather machines that generate hurricanes and droughts! Coal power plants, mines, oil refineries, old landfills, all emit radio waves and lasers to communicate on the GHG network with satellites that generate the weather!!!!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I hope his home gets destroyed by a climate-induced natural disaster.

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

is it a natural disaster when members of one of the endangered species destroys it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

I had someone tell me the other day that the whole worlds gonna get cancer and end because 5g network towers have to be 400 yards apart and within 10 years everyone's gonna have cancer and die ending the world. I was like while I don't think radio waves are good for us, I had to ask.. What pipe are you smoking off of?

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

Remember when everyone that got the COVID shot would be dead in 2 years.

These are Christian nationalists, they love death cults.

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

while I don't think radio waves are good for us

Can you elaborate?

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

AM radio waves transmit some pretty racist and hateful shit…

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

You should listen to 80m some day...

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

They've saved us! Just like when they fixed COVID by telling people to stop testing and then sent our tests over to Putin

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago

they did save us....

by losing enough elections in 2020.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

Have fun selling Florida to Aquaman.

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

Not much of a downgrade from the Biden admin acknowledging the climate crisis, and then not doing a thing about it. Still refusing to abandon fracking, setting fossil fuel extraction records, and trying to ban Chinese solar panel & EV imports.

Let’s aim for the next Dem to do more than just acknowledge it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 44 minutes ago

Your comment history is exactly what I expected it to be. Shoo.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Facts don’t care about your opinions. When Florida ends up underwater., when the dustbowl gets worse and people start baking, you can try to blame everything else but the fact will still remain.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Im not giving an opinion, nor am I disputing the science . I'm facepalming that this level of stupidity is a reality.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Sorry meant to post that at the top level about the people trying to ignore the issue. That wasn’t aimed at you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

No problem at all., I appreciate the clarification. Hope you have a nice day.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

The people in charge don't care about long term solutions, they want short term profits by continuing to rape the planet. They figure they would be dead before climate change actually happens or they make money from it.