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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] 8 points 1 year ago

I'm so glad we voted in the left wing of the neoliberal government this time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

sigh. We are doomed.

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

Why are we still pushing for coal mines? I would have thought australia would be ideal for solar in certain places.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Whoever could have guessed that "red neoliberals" wouldn't be the solution to decades of inaction by blue neoliberals?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well it always is down to something like that, but how depressing. I always think, just how much money do you need?

Also if you are a great business person, why not diversify in what clearly needs to be future tech and infrastructure?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I always think, just how much money do you need?

Wealth is the ultimate addiction.

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

At this point it feels like we are just chemistry and the idea we have control is just an illusion.