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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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[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

You'd rather spend $1.5T, each year, for no added benefit, just because someone else invested in unnecessary infrastructure? And call everyone else stupid?

[–] Gladaed@feddit.org -3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

This is an ignorant comment if I have ever seen one. Surprisingly, you don't have to pay for everyone's energy bill. You would need to harvest about a million people's lifetime productivity a year to pay for that.

Edit: they editted their comment to be less insane.

[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"stupid", "ignorant", "insane", pro-fossil. Childish insults and the pro-fossil lobby apparently go together now.

[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

I am not even pro fossil fuels.