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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] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I'll take things that are never going to happen for $500, Alex

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (8 children)

carbon tax wouldn't fix this, meat tax?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Have you met a rich person who can't avoid taxes? No but seriously even if every steak cost them $1000 it would not deter them because of the current wealth concentration.

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[–] federatingIsTooHard 1 points 10 months ago

I am interested to see what the summit actually says. the thumbnail graphic is just poore-nemecek, and the methodology on that was very lax.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

No, stop being billionaires, and give your money away

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