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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:

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40% of global ship traffic is simply moving fossil fuels around! Renewables make much of this traffic obsolete (thelemmy.club)

submitted 6 months ago* by inari@piefed.zip to c/climate@slrpnk.net

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[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 6 months ago

tHe eCoNoMy

funnily enough renewable energy is probably gonna be the biggest driver of the economy in the next 10 years or so, considering that a lot of new infrastructure has to be built for it and they will generate a lot of power to drive further manufacturing.

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