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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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Cutting the ‘green crap’ has added £22bn to UK energy bills since 2015 (www.carbonbrief.org)
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[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The short-termism of modern politicians should be a jailable offense.

[–] 9point6 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ecocide will be one day

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Yep. We're totally fucked!

[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce 27 points 5 months ago (2 children)

And that was the whole point of their propaganda.

[–] TropicalDingdong 4 points 5 months ago

To weaken the UK/ EU so that russia could take ukraine.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Yeah, people paying more money to their mates is exactly the outcome they wanted. This is good news for them.

[–] 3volver 19 points 5 months ago

That what conservatives ultimately want, the working poor to stay in their place.