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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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These US states want polluters to pay for the rising insurance costs of climate disasters (www.theguardian.com)
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Proposals by California, Hawaii and New York lawmakers aim to hold fossil fuel industry accountable for soaring rates

If you want these kinds of bills to become law, it helps to reach out to your state legislators.

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[–] decapitae@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 hours ago

If someone makes the mess but doesn't clean it up, instead leaving it for others to deal with - what do we call those characters?

Corporations and whole industries have performed this function to maximize profits for centuries - it's time for those profits to be used to clean up their messes.