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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] 57 points 1 year ago

"I'm as useless as a Log Cabin Republican but still want to control women" isn't quite the flex you think it is.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago

If the Republican Party wants to expand its coalition, it will need to recruit young voters with a far more pragmatic message.

That's the thing though, They don't want that. Climate change is a problem that will need to be solved from multiple angles and regulation is going to eventually be a requirement. The current republican party would rather see the world burn than risk making business interests upset.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

So change parties?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

“The human quest for interdependent order and our niche within it represents a profound necessity. The quest can, however, be perverted into a conservative grip on sameness. This has always proved deadly for the entire system.”

—Frank Herbert, Children of Dune (1976)

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Conservatives were once America’s environmental champions. Not that long ago, Republican presidents were carrying out the Clean Air and Water Acts, creating the Environmental Protection Agency, expanding the National Park System and even initiating the country’s most authoritative report on climate change, the National Climate Assessment.

Isn’t that take excluding all of the leftist pressure on them that forced them to propose these half assed compromises?

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

Well I want the sky to be green instead of blue, but I usually don't waste my time wishing for things that will never happen 🤷

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