this post was submitted on 11 Dec 2023
225 points (97.5% liked)

Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.

5244 readers
449 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 1 year ago
MODERATORS
silence7@slrpnk.net
225
Give Climate Change the Name It Deserves: Fossil-Fueled Destruction (capitalandmain.com)
submitted 11 months ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to c/climate@slrpnk.net
7 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] doidera@lemmy.eco.br 16 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Capitalism

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 13 points 11 months ago (4 children)

You could have a non-capitalist society burning fossil fuels in the same way, and it would have the same consequences.

[–] JeffKerman1999@sopuli.xyz 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Probably, but probably there wouldn't be a push for keeping things as they are. No wait! Let's burn even more carbon

[–] neanderthal@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Maybe, maybe not. You get what you measure. Bad incentives are a major contributor to the corruption that ultimately led to the downfall of the USSR.

Good policy and incentives make the difference. Capitalism and communism aren't all that different. In practice, they are still largely hierarchical with a few controlling things.

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (2 replies)