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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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Why Australia’s answer to Greta Thunberg is facing years behind bars (www.sbs.com.au)
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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Outlawing protests is a surefire way to radicalize protestors. If you're gonna break the law anyway might as well go all out.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Do you want pipelines blown up? Because this is how you get pipelines blown up.

History is always going to look back at the climate protestors fondly. It's frustrating that so much is standing in the way for the obvious long-term choices.