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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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Americans’ Shifting Views on Energy Issues | A growing majority of Republicans prioritize the development of fossil fuel energy sources like oil and natural gas (www.pewresearch.org)
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[–] NorskSud@piefed.social 40 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Oh yeah because those sources are proving super reliable during wars started by the republicans? /s

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

They aren’t even reliable when it snows.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis

[–] MrKoyun@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Oh, but woe is us, what will happen to the renewables when there's like a slight breeze or the sun goes down for 5 minutes? Mass power outages all around the world! It will be a DISASTER!!!

Surely the only form of reliable energy we have are fossil fuels. Burn that coal and pump that oil baby!

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

I grew up in DFW and moved away in 2004. It was fine before then, but they let it go to hell by not keeping up with maintenance and repairs. So now it's a shitty grid. :| Thanks, Republicans.

[–] Coldgoron@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 weeks ago

Did the renewables even wear a suit?