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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] 34 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No it won't. We can't consume our way out of this. It'll be won in drastic legislation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Which means it won't be won.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Probably. By the time legislators get on board, it'll be way too late. It's already too late, but it'll be too late to avoid even the most disastrous consequences.

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

Yep. We're on course for the worst of it thanks to the oil companies convincing half the population climate change isn't even real.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Let's not forget all the paid politicians, shills, current deniers, and every single company that chooses profit over doing what's right (so, all of them). We're all culpable to varying extents. But people in power had a responsibility to the rest of us, and they chose greed and power when given the opportunity.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

So we're going to ambush oil billionaires while they're shopping for appliances?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

omg nyt! sometimes you're so embarrassing

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

I love that the illustration is of solar panels being installed on a roof. I didn’t realize you bought those in the appliance aisle.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

No it fucking won't lol

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

The fight for ad dollars will be won in the NYT opinion section

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

I've heard it said many times. There are no silver bullets to climate change. Many solutions have to be researched, discovered, developed, and implemented.