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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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The specific examples in this are all about climate, though the problem is much more widespread right now

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 days ago

They canceled all the multi year contracts too. No, the government run by Trump's administration does not keep their word, even when written down.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

This is just Murdoch playing both sides; his other rags are promoting how ‘awesome’ Trump is at everything.

Not sure if it’s just a class divide he’s going for, a further shakeup of the stock market, or priming the MAGA morons to see educated people as the enemy for saying Trump is bad, or a combo of all of it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

ask the Kurds.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago

No. There's a reason that I've avoided the public sector. It's not that I don't think that it's a necessary post of society that has the capability to greatly improve the human condition. No. It's that the people in charge have been consistently moving to the Right in my lifetime, as they give less and less of a shit about the people that they're supposed to represent than billionaires' bribes.

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

Lol you know how they say, "The answer is 'No' anytime there's a question in a headline?" That but also, maybe don't ask a question everyone already knows the answer to.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

No, obviously not. Next article New York Times.

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

I've been saying since GWB cancelled climate action that the US has no continuity of honor in international agreements.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

This is not a new question by any means.