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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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Data-driven climate action in America can make up for the Trump slump | How smarter prioritization of straightforward voluntary actions can slash 20% of global carbon emissions (drawdown.org)
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[–] Golden@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Who is the target demographic for this article? "those of us who still care can make a difference" and then goes on to say we need to build in geographic hotspot, optimize our grid projections, source our raw materials more ethically, and decide which forests are most worth protecting. This isn't anything actionable for anyone other than capitalists, who are exactly the ones who don't care if the world burns 

[–] Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 3 points 2 days ago

I mean it does say in really big letters:

Four ways U.S. and multinational companies could slash emissions without federal support

I imagine the target demographic is probably CSR/ESG teams at big companies.