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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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[–] Dippy@beehaw.org 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

How could I possibly operate my business if I can't destroy the planet?

[–] snooggums@midwest.social 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Have you tried massively underpaying your workers and hiding in tax shelters?

[–] Dippy@beehaw.org 5 points 8 months ago

I'm already doing that of course, and I'm only making record profits!

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 7 points 8 months ago

They don't even make them stop the destruction; just report how much damage they do