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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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How Fossil Fuel Disruptions Lead to Booms in Solar and Batteries (www.bloomberg.com)
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[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Diesel is used for trucking, which can be electrified and for heating, which also can. Bunker oil is mostly used because it is cheap. Jet fuel also can be replaced using high speed trains for quite a few journeys and for short ones there are electric planes. Industrial gas use is in many cases just heating, which can be done with electricity as well.

[–] eleitl@lemmy.zip -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You do not understand the industrial processes nor reasons for them, at all. I suggest to do some research and crunch the numbers.

[–] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well how about you explain some of your position instead of making a one line comment?

[–] eleitl@lemmy.zip 0 points 10 hours ago

It would require a book, or several. I can point you towards https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9js5291m so that you can start building the necessary background.