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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] 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

People are so stupid. Authoritarians can't save you from impending doom, and they have no incentive to do so.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Most if not all modern authoritarians profit off doom

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Oh yes, it’s the french election that still sells water in plastic fucking bottles

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

You are making some hahaha, rofl joke and all. But it's a matter of influence power. France has a decisive input in climate policy. New laws and regulations locally can compel neighborss, they can wager at the european level to make united move toward more ecological stances (like the current ban on new petrol car being sold after 2035). Europe is such a wide market that regulation applying there can shift entire industries

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah banning water bottles will save us

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Not banning them doesn’t help and I don’t see too much action orherwise.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Macron actually did some good work on reducing single use plastic using a presedential decree. That would very likely be reversed under RN.

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