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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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10 years after the Paris Agreement, world leaders are letting go of its most famous goal | This year's U.N. climate negotiations crashed out on a hard truth: It’s all about the money. (grist.org)
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[–] Hirom@beehaw.org 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I don't see how COPs can decide to fight climate change BY CONSENSUS. Parties include petrostates doing all they can to keep producing and burning fossil fuel, even if that mean derailing efforts to fight climate change.

An interesting option is the fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty https://fossilfueltreaty.org/european-parliament-2023

It would be voluntary but would facilitate the enforcment of carbon tariffs, or carbon import tax, to be applied collectively against states that don't participate and pollute the most.