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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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[–] RojoSanIchiban 27 points 1 year ago

I'm out of the loop, but how's the U.K. justice system doing these days? Anything on the books for such massive conflicts of interest?

[–] SmellyHamWallet 18 points 1 year ago

I can't wait to see the back of these Tory scum. The sooner they're fucked off the better.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago
[–] LEDZeppelin 6 points 1 year ago

Has anyone seen that red bus lately?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

As The Church Lady would say - HOW CONVENIENT!