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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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Scientists find that major Earth systems are on the verge of total collapse. (www.earth.com)
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[โ€“] Australis13@fedia.io 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, I really struggle to understand it. No-one in the energy industry supports nuclear as far as I can tell and yet people can't see that the Nationals are pushing it as a way to avoid actually doing anything about climate. It's like the Nationals want to make themselves irrelevant by intentionally (through stupidity, willful ignorance or sheer disingenuousness) harming their constituents.

[โ€“] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 days ago

Honestly I think it's simply that "nuclear" is a one-word solution to a complex problem that doesn't require anyone to interrupt their view of the rolling landscape with a noisy turbine. If you start there then you can build up a narrative around how nuclear is the only sensible solution but it's still just vibe-based reasoning.