this post was submitted on 21 May 2024
106 points (100.0% liked)

Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.

5243 readers
353 users here now

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.

Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:

Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
silence7@slrpnk.net
106
The Big Oil Reality Check report finds that the climate pledges and plans of 8 international oil and gas companies fail to align with international agreements to phase out fossil fuels and to limit gl (www.oilchange.org)
submitted 5 months ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to c/climate@slrpnk.net
3 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

top 3 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] nehal3m@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This just in, companies fail to act against their own interest!

[–] StarshotJohn@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

No way!!

[–] AlwaysNowNeverNotMe@kbin.social 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Wow this is shocking.

Too bad we don't have some kind of overarching governing system that could control these guys.

Like some kind of rule making organization?

And then they have like guys with weapons who take the people who broke the rules to some kind of locked building?

Sort of like what we do with destitute people or migrants or addicts? But like for causing major societal harm?

Oh well maybe the boards of shareholders will convince the corporations to make less money for the good of everyone.