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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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Republicans introduce extreme bill to ban lawsuits against Big Oil forever | Shouldn't Democrats... be saying something about this? (heated.world)
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[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 children)

democrats are just potty trained republicans, it seems to me. as an outsider america seems to have just one party that is divided.

[–] 0tan0d@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Watching all blue states fail in lock step to substantially improve the lives of the people that live in them has me thinking you are on to something.

[–] Weydemeyer@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

This is a correct observation, from an American.