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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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[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They're not contrarians, they're fossil-fuel industry shills.

And if they live, we all die.

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Weird, they’re all old men.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 9 points 4 days ago

They're a small group that has been pushing the same lies for the fossil fuels industry for decades. The oldest got their start pushing cigarettes and denying that those cause cancer

[–] Wytch@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 days ago

They will absolutely find that it is now safe to do more fracking, more dumping, more drilling, and more emissions.

Climate change hurts line go up, eliminate climate change, problem solved. 🤡

I honestly can't tell if it's rich fossil fuel execs getting their way so they don't have to undergo the agonizing inhuman cruel and unusual torture of shifting their business model a bit...or if it's just religious dogma at this point. Somebody who likes solar power insulted our fragile god emporer fuckboy so now it all has to be burned down.

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 4 days ago

Texans are worried too.