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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] 64 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Industry study is where you can stop reading. The industry in question has been lying to everyone about the impacts of climate change for over half a century.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When they say "we can use carbon capture to create permission to keep on extracting and burning more than we're capturing" believe them.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Carbon capture, illustrated:

Eleanor from 'The Good Place' sweeping a large mess under a rug.

Not to say we shouldn't try to pull CO2 from the atmosphere, but I just don't see how we can do that without it also being permission to keep emitting at current levels.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

That's why industry people keep yelling about it, even though some very large scale attempts at it were already failures.

They'll keep pushing the scam for the same reason we all have to use paper straws; misdirection.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

For anyone wondering whether to click: yes, the article is very critical of this and gives a lot of space to experts who think that this is an absolutely terrible idea. I think the value here is in knowing what the oil industry tries to do and how they try to lie to justify their crimes.