this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2026
29 points (100.0% liked)

Climate

8794 readers
423 users here now

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.

Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:

Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
silence7@slrpnk.net
29
We Can’t Rely on Green Capital for Decarbonization (jacobin.com)
submitted 6 hours ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to c/climate@slrpnk.net
1 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Under Joe Biden, green capitalists primarily sold commodities to help wealthier homeowners decarbonize. Real climate action will require a much more robust public-oriented politics of public investment, public goods, and public ownership.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

One day we will learn that capital is a fiction. The state can create any and all capital it needs based on available resources. As long as it is not squandered, and deployed effectively, private capital is equally fictitious - a narrative we use to funnel the value of people's labour to a minority of parasites.