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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] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good on MSNBC for finally pointing this out. Now to admit and apologise for the culpability of themselves and the neoliberal hypocrite politicians and disastrous faux-green policies they have been promoting for as long as they have existed.

[–] RGB3x3 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They're going to try to save face, but the elites who peddled the lies from oil and gas companies and consistently undermined the real research that showed we had a climate problem are still culpable.

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

The podcast Drilled current season is about how the oil company Mobile worked hard in the US for cooperations right for free speech. Intrsstingly that was mainly done, due to ABC, NBC and CBS refusing to show most of their ads, due to them being propaganda. That is obviously not that case anymore.

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