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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] 40 points 1 year ago (4 children)

When is it appropriate for climate protests to turn into climate violence? When is it appropriate for a victim to fight back? Or must we allow billionaires and conservatives to kill us all?

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

to answer your questions:

  1. now
  2. now
  3. no
[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Doesn't matter if it's appropriate. It's not actually feasible right now.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When will it get feasible? Things will just keep getting worse and by the time people decide to fight back it will be too late

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

Answered your own question.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it’s feasible anytime anyone does it.

Probably achieve a bit of a copy cat effect as well.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

Sure it is. Go get em, tiger.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

These protests have no connection to the issue. I honestly think many of them are paid by oil companies to make the environmental movement look bad.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Very interesting! I hadn't thought of that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Stopping personal traffic by blocking cars and being "annoying" in places that often are lit for no reason through entire nights are both protests very close to the issue.