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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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[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social 19 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

The moment you try an EV for more than the 5 minutes test drive, you realize that there's no going back. Even with its "drawbacks", it's far superior to ICE vehicles. I haven't met anyone yet that said "I'll go back to gas because I don't like my EV".

[–] Junkers_Klunker@feddit.dk 8 points 3 weeks ago

I’ve met one once, but his usecase was pretty wild so I kinda understand him.

[–] 5715@feddit.org 4 points 3 weeks ago

It's all contrarianism. Arguments and experiences don't matter to those who are loud (influencing the quiet, the undecided, the nostalgic).

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Privacy.

Once you realize they're watching you in the cameras and recoding you with the microphones and your GPS locations and selling that data...

[–] Dymonika@beehaw.org 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This is increasingly the same with ICE vehicles when active, though.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 3 points 3 weeks ago

Yes. But I can't buy an old used EV that's not a surveillance capsule.

[–] vorpuni@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 1 points 3 weeks ago

I like classic cars. Owning an EV made me realise I never cared what gets them moving, I just hate modern cars. I wish I could retrofit a Citroen CX with absurdly powerful electric motors and a decent battery.