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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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[–] SoftTeeth 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm sad no form of protest will ever be acceptable for people who want to demonize climate activists.

[–] x00z 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

No I'm specifically using the word "useless".

Lets just burn down Evil Corp's headquarters. Now that is useful.

[–] SoftTeeth 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

"The only acceptable form of protest is the kind I'm too much of a coward to carry out myself"

[–] x00z 0 points 19 hours ago

Exactly. I never do such stuff.

Never ever mister police man.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] x00z -4 points 21 hours ago

I wonder what went trough your head when you pressed Post after writing such a useless comment.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

What the hell are you talking about? Somebody just punched the United Healthcare CEO's ticket to Hell several decades early. That enjoyed widespread support. By contrast, historical artifacts and working peoples' livelihoods have value. Meanwhile, climate activists just pull one smarmy, performative, insincere stunt after another, and not even so much as a drop of gasoline has been spilled on a single oil CEO's house.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I wouldn't pay this guy too much attention. It seems like an obvious troll account. It's 11 days old and spewing out comments at nearly one a minute. They talk down to anyone mentioning the CEO shooting while claiming "nothing will improve until the rich fear for their lives" in other posts. It's clear they're just trying to stir up shit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago

Truly an individual with valuable time.

[–] SoftTeeth 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

So the only form of viable protest is one where the protesters trade their lives for the lives of the rich?

Seems like big talk from a keyboard warrior.

Maybe you should go do it since you don't like how they protest.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

Nah, they should frame you for it and then we'd be spared your vaporing.