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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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[โ€“] Flanhare 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Why not wait for the thieves to start working and then electrify ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿผโ€โ™‚๏ธ

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Because you would have to create some kind of surveillance team to find the thieves and it's generally unethical to kill people. The electricity in those wires won't just hurt, they will kill someone for just getting slightly too close.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Hey dude, my dad is working for the train system. Do you want to be the one cleaning human being parts? Not them.