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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] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What we've got right now is a carrots-only policy.

Getting to where we need to be means winning a whole lot more seats in congress so that we don't have legal requirements to auction off drilling leases and treat existing leases as a property right guaranteeing the right to drill.

[–] Cybermass 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wish it was that simple, but I am living in Canada and currently we have a left leaning minority government who formed a coalition with an even more left leaning government and they both keep saying they want to help the climate crisis but they both keep letting companies log old growth forests or start new oil drilling operations. The problem isn't which politicians we have it's the fact that the politicians are in big oils pockets regardless, just some more than others.

I know I'm complaining a lot, and no I don't have any solutions, I wish I did.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

In the US at least, we pushed a lot of the Democrats into signing a pledge to reject money from the fossil fuel industry executives and lobbyists. The exact terms of the pledge are designed to match public disclosure rules, so that we'll know if the pledge if violated. This is part of how we've gotten at least something, though we haven't yet managed to elect enough pledge signers to actually pass legislation without the votes of a few paid-off individuals.

[–] Cybermass 3 points 1 year ago

Ahhh I see, this is very good information I was unaware of! Thanks for sharing!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The Canadian Liberal party is not really "left leaning" except relative to someone firmly planted on the right. They're a wishy-washy centrist party who will never do anything to offend big corporations.