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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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Lee Raymond, Exxon CEO Who Doubted Climate Change, Dies at 87 | as early as the 1970s, Exxon had understood more about climate change than it had let on and had deliberately misled the public about it (www.bloomberg.com)
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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 47 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

As usual, the media sanewashes these people by describing them as "doubting" and being "skeptical" about climate change. He didn't do either. He knew it was happening, and decided to hasten the mass extinction of life on Earth and the collapse of human civilization, while lying about it and persecuting anyone who spoke the truth, in order to make himself richer than anyone needs to be. And the article talks about his "fairness" and "firmness" to disguise a reality of greed, lies, and abusive management culture, all in the service of deeply destructive goals.

[–] akwd169@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 day ago

He did all this knowing full well he'd never be around to experience the horrors he has wrought on the planet and society

Its disgusting

[–] leagman1@feddit.org 12 points 1 day ago

Imagine being so evil. He prolly didn't think much of it.