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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 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I knew Chicago got screwed but I didn't realize how bad. Seems like several groups should face major lawsuits over this mess, most of all Morgan Stanley. Personally, I think the city should fuck with the company in ways the lawyers never thought to put in a contract, like passing a law that parking fees must be collected in pennies or that all ticketing personnel must be licensed accountants.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Illinois politics is as corrupt as it gets, at least in a first world country. I can promise you nearly everyone involved in these deals was compromised from the hop. On a separate note, they used to accept pennies at tollbooths because "Land of Lincoln", so maybe they can lean on that for your plan.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Chicago keeps making stupid fuckin decisions. I just left after 18 years because of it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Funny. It seems like it just keeps getting better to me.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

It’s a fun presentation of a dreadful situation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Watched nearly 15 minutes before I gave up - And if there’s no twist ending then they sold the streets for pennies and they will be fucked for 60 more years or something.