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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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[โ€“] No_Bark@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm very happy this shit bag is dead, but it sucks ass that he got to live so long and died peacefully. Hopefully more oil CEOs, and just CEOs in general, meet their demises sooner.

[โ€“] fpslem@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Kissinger shit right here