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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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[–] TheTechnician27 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If nothing else, thank fuck Australia seems to be doing something about it now. I'd basically given up hope for them during the Morrison years.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well, those Liberal years seem like they’ll be coming back…

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

if Labor can't fix things in 1 term then fuck them (and us) for another decade I guess

[–] RedditWanderer 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Wasn't the cop29 leader caught just using the oil people who show up to facilitate contracts?

More like copium29

Edit: Yeaaaah..

Elnur Soltanov recorded speaking with fake oil and gas group that asked for deals in exchange for sponsoring talks