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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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AI Was Supposed to Cut Emissions. Instead, Fossil Fuel Companies Are Using It to Find More Oil and Gas. (www.desmog.com)
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[โ€“] growsomethinggood@reddthat.com 60 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Who in their right mind believed that AI was going to reduce emissions? I've got a nice bridge to sell them

[โ€“] altphoto@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Sure! If you tell me how long, wide and tall this bridge should be as well as the various live and dead loads it must support I can help you design:

1- A complete bridge concept.
2- A template for a master plan to begin planning the concept.
3- A good process to develop a proper name for your bridge concept.
4- A table game to theoretically "play" Devil's advocate against the possible rejection of your concept.

If you sign in for 20,000,000 tokens I can create a drawing of your consept, split it into a connect-a-number drawing and give you a PDF that you can print to make your bridge concept a real conceptual concept of a real concept!

Its notional at this point. Would you like a Python program with that?