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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] 9 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

The EU is capable of resisting Trump pretty well. However many countries are not. That is honesty the real problem here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Short term, the countries that can’t say no, will say yes. However, they will seek alternative markets for purchase and sale. It damages the relationship for short term gain, all paid by the business and American consumer.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Further proof he doesn't even know what the word means

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago

I'd be surprised if he could spell his own name at this point.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 18 hours ago (2 children)
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[–] P1k1e 17 points 17 hours ago

This is the most Putin sounding shit I ever read