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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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[–] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 days ago

The saddest part is that a good chunk of what is produced from that livestock gets thrown away because overproduction doesn't matter under capitalism so long as profits exceed costs of production.

Entire farms worth of animals being slaughtered, with those in power who demand it be done knowing full well that nearly half is going to end up in a landfill, because it has the potential to make the owners a buck of profit.

How others are not enraged by this, I do not know. It fills my blood with a cold anger.