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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] 6 points 2 months ago

Understatements that keep me up at night for 1000, please, Alex.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I don't understand it, not Trump (who is the mechanism), but the entire conservative establishment. Like they have to know that they, and probably the capitalist system they've set up, has about 10 maybe 20 years left if they push in this direction (forget the "selfless" act of humans continuing to live on this planet). Do they really expect to be better off living like this? Or are they so far up their own arseholes that they can't see what's going to happen here?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This is the thing that keeps me voting Harris despite my dissatisfaction with her positions. These other issues, hugely significant though they may be for many people today are just dust in the wind compared to the colossal death and suffering of our failure to slow climate change. And there is a very clear policy difference between the two candidates on this issue, even though I think Harris is not nearly serious enough about it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Oh it'll doom a lot more than that. But you're right, so go vote.