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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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[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

my appalachian perspective is it has been since the advent of the ironclad in the 1860s

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

America has been the world's largest oil producer since oil production became important. It is, no joke, the actual foundation of American prosperity, and there's a reason why the oil barons made a move on Venezuela as our own reserves are running out.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 days ago

coal -> oil -> natural gas -> rare earth minerals and uranium

they won't allow us to consider any possibility seriously that will reduce the importance of pulling things to make water hot out from under the surface of the earth