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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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[–] Hugohase@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Those data centers would soon be somewhere else due to... economics. And even if not, wouldn't be significant.

[–] _bcron_@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Why would a corporate entity move PP&E to a different country in light of the promise of increasingly favorable tax rates and the threat of tariffs? There's a reason why US and Ireland are havens. Those things are bolted down

[–] Hugohase@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ok, bask in your american exceptionalism if you please.

[–] _bcron_@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Weird thing for you to say to someone basically parroting the IPCC's concerns.

https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/chapter/chapter-14/

[–] Hugohase@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago

No idea what you mean and not gonna read the ipcc report now.