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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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[โ€“] ceenote@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

These murderous psychopaths know climate change is real and know it's going to be devastating. They've just decided that rather than slowing or fighting it, they'd prefer to accrue as much wealth and power as possible so that when the time comes, someone else can pay the consequences.

[โ€“] Promethiel@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

They decided to accrue as much wealth and power as possible, at any cost, because they can only think in binaries, and in their mind when it all breaks, you then get to live with the power you amassed prior.

Anyone who's lived through a natural disaster and didn't have their guts hated by their neighbors will understand innately how fucking stupid an idea that is.

They also decided there are more people than they could control in the version of the after they imagine.

Thus, any and every action that accelerates both, is their idea of "winning", so they're going to take every single catastrophic decision to make it all worse from now on.