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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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[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Oh, but that will all happen after the rich jerks who caused all this are dead, so it doesn't matter! Why would they do anything to stop it?

EDIT: Plus they already have their apocalypse bunkers lined up so even if it all hits sooner, who cares about the poors right?

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just don't understand how these people don't just do their "jobs," they always used to say they are the Great Job Creators and profits were the reward of creating those jobs.

Ok. So create "climate friendly" jobs that will take the X trillions and make yourself profit...

If the money is there to take and these people are so Hard Working™ then why can't they just do the right thing AND profit?

[–] Alto@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

Because doing the right thing might lead to ever so slightly less profits in the direct short term. Everyone knows that short term gains at the cost of your future is the best course of action