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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] 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

To say this is to be a lying mass murderer, that isn't hyperbole though most of the murder is still coming down the pipe.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

And believing these psychopathic criminals is mental illness

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

The era of science and research has ended in the USA.

If you want to know about the state of the climate emergency, just look at what home insurance companies are doing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Uhhhh Florida disagrees…

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This was the last year I spent in Florida. To this day I don't understand why my family stayed. I went back to visit in 2017, and you could still see damage from Charley, some buildings were never repaired. And a tornado ripped through the woods by my parents house during the 2005 hurricane season, and that path is still eerily visible

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I lived through Charley and a slew of other hurricanes. Things never truly, fully recover and it’s just going to get worse with the current admin talking about getting rid of FEMA funding. We are planning our exit but it’s tough when you have family and friends here.

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

I just remembered that Charley was 2004 lol. There's been too many bad storms to keep track of at this point

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

Can’t believe it was that long ago. We had no power for a week. I slept on a screened patio in my undies because the house was stifling hot. Gave all my ice cream away to the folks fixing our lines because it was melting anyway haha.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

It should be criminally punishable for public servants to blatantly lie like this. I don't mean little white lies should be illegal. I don't mean that statements where there is even a smidge of room for disagreement should be illegal. I mean that big, damaging, blatantly disprovable lies should be illegal.

In this case, he is saying that the IPCC has said the exact opposite of what the IPCC has said. He is lying about something that can be found in black and white in the IPCC reports.

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

No no, Chris Wright is not wrong. He is inventing facts. That's different, because it sounds much better than being wrong, although it is in fact much much worse. You know, 'cause he is a liar.