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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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[–] WhyDoYouPersist@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Why do I get the feeling this is about to become another partisan topic?

[–] MumboJumbo@lemmy.world 26 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Already has. See Florida HB 433. Rights mustn't get in the way of costs and profits.

[–] treefrog@lemm.ee 10 points 4 months ago

The Florida laws will hurt undocumented migrants the most.

Which is to say, don't forget the racism as a motivation.

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It already is. A bunch of red states states are denying climate change, forbidding consideration of climate change in zoning and development decisions, removing references from government documents, forbidding it from getting taught in school, etc.

This particular article is probably in reference to Florida recently passing a law saying that employers are not required to give outside workers rest or water breaks in the heat.

[–] wildcardology@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] aramis87@fedia.io 4 points 4 months ago

Both Florida and Texas were, in the not-very-distant past, within reach of the Democrats and were slept turning bluer. The Republicans in both Florida and Texas know exactly what they're doing: preserving those precious, precious electoral college votes for the Republicans. Anything else is a bonus, a distraction for the left, or both.

[–] snooggums@midwest.social 10 points 4 months ago

Yeah, that is why laws were created to try and counter that.

Then Republicans overturned them in pursuit of evil.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

"My grandpa got lung cancer from the asbestos factory and died and he was fine with it. People were tougher back then. Nobody wants to die anymore!"

[–] Please_Do_Not@lemm.ee 6 points 4 months ago

What a radical take

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Duh. But they will, because not having food or shelter sucks.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 4 points 4 months ago

Don't underestimate the power of the lie that is the American Dream. Even if you have food and shelter, many still think they can overcome late-stage capitalism with sheer effort.

[–] realbadat@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

Yup.

Not having money for food or a place to live prevents a whole lot of actions being taken that are appropriate and necessary.

[–] braxy29@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

i'm sorry to report this is already a thing in Texas. in a state where dying from heat is a thing.

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/16/texas-heat-wave-water-break-construction-workers/

[–] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 months ago

but the Capital god demands