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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] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Almost as if they were all a bunch of spineless cowards.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

FTFY- Almost as if they were all a bunch of ~~spineless cowards~~ batshit cunts.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Last guy I knew who tried to gut the IRA blew up

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Yea. Irish Republican Army was the first thing that came to mind...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Sing up the 'RA!

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

All of Congress can go die in a fire. They are not serving the public good.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They’re just here to collect rent and do some insider trading.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you live in one of their states you better be calling them 10x a day this month telling them they are gonna be fired and homeless if they pass this bullshit bill.

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

Yeah! They'll have to hit "delete all" on their voicemail extra hard!

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

Before the vote, I spoke with David Spence, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, to try to get a sense of the factors that were most likely to influence each member.

“They’re feeling pressure to go along with whatever Trump wants and whatever the leadership wants,” he said.

lol

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

Come out ye black and tans...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Their previous excuse was that Musk was going fund their competitors in primaries. Didn't Musk back out recently?