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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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Greed trumps climate as Origin bid voted down by dividend hungry shareholders (reneweconomy.com.au)
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Just thought it was interesting to see the nuts and bolts of these decisions. Things can be Interesting and horrifying at the same time, I guess.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Power infrastructure - and more broadly, basic utilities - have no business whatsoever being run by private companies. If we want to have any hope of actually addressing climate change, energy companies need to be nationalized worldwide.

The parties voting these proposals down represent and infinitesimal fraction of our population, and they’re killing the rest of us because they want a good 5-year ROI. And they will never stop wanting that 5-year ROI. And those same parties voting the proposals down also tend to have successfully executed regulatory capture on their host governments.