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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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Why decades of progress in cars’ fuel efficiency is ending | automakers’ offerings have gotten less efficient as they swap out sedans for SUVs. (wapo.st)
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In the U.S., gas-powered cars have stopped making big efficiency gains. Some automakers’ offerings have gotten less efficient as they swap out sedans for SUVs.

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

We need to limit the size of private vehicles.

Too many idiots in America are driving vehicles so big they'd need special licenses for being a commercial delivery vehicles anywhere else

And they're riding solo in those things making hour long commutes.

And most of them won't stop bitching about gas prices, like no shit Billy Bob, you get 10 mpg and drive 30 miles each way to work, of course you think gas is high.

The solution isnt gas subsidies so your costs go down, it's you buying a rationale vehicle for your needs.