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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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[–] stanleytweedle -5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Sounds like you two should hook up ;)

I wish you success in however you are planning to dedicate your resources to the cause. We’re on the same team friend.

Also not sure how your keen nose for condescension picked up my scent but missed that. I'm sure it has nothing to do with any general biases against people that say anything negative about abstract 'protests' against global issues.

Seriously though if you want to block the construction\demolition of something your community doesn't want or stand between a group being oppressed and their oppressors I'll be genuinely proud of you for it. But these performative, symbolic 'disruptions' for global issues are just plain silly.

[–] andxz 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

For sure, he sounds cool and all. At least you won't be there either so it's a win-win kinda scenario anyway.

[–] stanleytweedle -2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Send me a postcard from your honeymoon!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Don't feed the trolls.

[–] stanleytweedle -1 points 6 months ago

I'm feeding the Audrey II. All night long ;)