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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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[–] jeffw@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Had me in the first half. Couldn’t figure out why Ken would go after big corporate overlords at first

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 3 points 1 month ago

Seriously! I was like doing the McMahan meme thing but before the climax I read the last line and was deflated... All is Reich in the world, there was no need to get excited. :/

[–] thejevans@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"We want the market to decide"

"...not like that"

[–] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

The 'free to do what we say' market

[–] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Never thought I'd find myself rooting for Blackrock, of all of the seedy trillion-dollar hedge fund managers. But I guess were headed back into the darkest timeline for the next few years, so I should probably buckle up.