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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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Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change (www.engadget.com)
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[–] ultimate_worrier@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 hours ago

Breaking News: Jeff Bezos slightly altered his walking path today to avoid the bones of a deceased baby blue whale.

Solarpunk Reaction: IT’S WORKIKG, EVERYONE!

[–] SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 3 days ago

If they were really serious, they would shut down their energy intensive datacenters and pledge far more (like 25%) of their annual profit.

[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 days ago

YAY the world is saved!

[–] saxrussell@slrpnk.net 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

such wow. much climate halp.

[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 11 points 3 days ago

isn't it forbidden to use the word climate in US?

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 6 points 3 days ago

Don’t have to increase shareholder value if they’re all dead.

[–] CrateredMoon@lemmy.today 5 points 3 days ago

Not good enough. Alter your trajectory, or the money is meaningless.