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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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[–] D1re_W0lf@piefed.social 26 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Frankly? The United States is not a two parties country. It’s a no party country. Ever thought about why monopoly laws from the eighties no longer exist?

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 2 points 6 hours ago

There is a communist party. And a green party. And like 10 more, depending where you live.

The problem is not that there are not progressive parties. The problem is that the US is not a democracy, and it's designed so only one party can win elections

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 7 points 15 hours ago

Reagan was an antichrist, yes