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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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Extinction Rebellion Shuts Down UK Coal Mine Operating Without License (www.commondreams.org)
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"The authorities are missing in action," said one campaigner. "If they won't step in to stop illegal, planet-wrecking coal mining, we will."

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[โ€“] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Do I understand this correctly, if you say that you do not agree that what you do is illegal, you can just continue doing it in the UK and the police is not going to do anything about that? Seems like XR just found their legal loophole.

[โ€“] silence7@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 years ago

That only really works for the wealthy and the powerful. It doesn't work for the rest of us.