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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€“] SquishyPandaDev@yiffit.net 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Remember all of this is so that the ultra rich doesn't have to be inconvenienced by having slightly less money

[โ€“] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The ultra rich:

"Over my dead body will I yield 1/32 of my 145 billion dollars!"

I couldn't even imagine how I'd spend 50 million. A house. A couple cool vehicles maybe? Some fun trips? Ok I still have a significant amount of money left over.