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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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The tanks in Cushing, Oklahoma, are hitting bottom. The oil market is about to hit a tipping point (www.cnn.com)
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In multiple ways, we are seeing the end of the oil age.

Change is coming.

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[–] iocase@lemmy.zip 49 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Which, by the way, is THE ENTIRE FICKING POINT OF THE RESERVES IN THE FIRST PLACE

for graceful demand destruction and rationing to take place before it runs out. Because if you don't do that everything breaks...

[–] immutable@lemmy.zip 28 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Sure we ran out of corn, but then we realized we had all this seed corn for next season.

The naysayers and sky is falling group told us “you can’t just eat your seed corn” but you should have seen the shocked look on those smarty pants faces when we easily turned the seed corn into breads and cakes and porridges.

Poor fools seriously thought you couldn’t actually eat seed corn. Now we are having a lovely time with full bellies! They keep asking about what we will do when it comes time to plant, but that isn’t for months and we are hungry now.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 14 points 2 days ago

That seems depressingly accurate

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

But that would require planning for the future. Those in charge of everything in the US haven't practiced that particular skill in years. Short term profits for the here and now > long term profits for the future. This is the inevitable result.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Almost like they are intentionally sabotaging the nations institutions, like a domestic terrorist...

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't live in the US though and the same seems to be the case here. UK, I have seen absolutely no impact at all. No changes.

[–] iocase@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago

Would you rather:

📈, then 💥💣🧨📉📉📉📉 but next quarter?

Or

⛔🛢️⛔📉, then 📈?

This is the brainrot emoji logic going through the brains of our leaders.