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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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EU leaders fearmonger about immigration while neglecting the real and deadly threats posed by climate change. (jacobin.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Conservatives want to keep the system as it is or at least only do minimal repairs to keep it going. In the West that means they are currently liberals.

Facists want to create racist, militaristic dictatorships.

To give you an example. Biden is a conservative for the most part and Trump is a facist.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It is like a layman theory and a scientific theory.

While the meaning of conservative initially meant slow to change, the political definition does not align with that at all. The current political definition of conservative is someone who wants to make rapid changes backwards by removing rights and opposing any social benefits that would help everyone.

As of the last few decades, politicians who identify as conservative are fascists.