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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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[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

πŸ”₯La la la πŸ‘‰πŸ€‘πŸ‘ˆ not listening πŸ”₯

[–] Nangijala@feddit.dk 7 points 2 days ago

At some point, all one can do is laugh.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Whaaaaat...?

The party who put a coal lobbyist in charge of the EPA for Trump's entire previous term did this...?

Nooooo.

/sarcasm

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 115 points 3 days ago (67 children)

This is what you voted for protest-non-voters.

[–] torch_and_blanket@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Oh, no doubt, but a worse foe lurks! Some people voted for Donald Trump.

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 29 points 3 days ago

Maybe they think the flooding won’t affect them on their moral high ground.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Ha ha but You voted for Genocide!

/s

[–] grue@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

So did the protest non-voters, even moreso than the Democrat ones.

The non-genocide position was literally impossible to express no matter what you tried to do.

[–] 13igTyme@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

No it existed. Harris is on record saying she'd like to work towards peace talks.

Which is objectively better than option B: vote GOP "finish them off" and option C: literally doing nothing.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Okay, fine: to the extent that a non-genocide position existed, Harris was it.

But the real point is that even if a person disagrees with you about that, they still should've voted for Harris. She was at least objectively not more genocidal than Trump, and infinitely better on basically every other issue.

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[–] Alaik@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

But at least we didn't help hurrying along the most recent great extinction!

I wonder if anything we built will last for the next sentient species that arises.

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[–] houseofleft@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I totally feel this frustration, and I'm not US so it's kinda not my business, but I don't buy this argument.

Trump America is a horror show, for sure. But the status quo before Trump is also the foundations that allowed America to become a new facist state. Any real solutions need to be bigger than what middle of the road Democrats are offering.

That doesn't mean you shouldn't vote against Trump. But the system is clearly broken, stop blaming victims of it, and start blaming its perpetrators.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (9 children)

Status quo of Biden implementing Green energy, EVs, build back better, PACT act, chips act, student debt relief, Obama's healthcare. And you're equating this to .... status quo.... , and .... a foundation of a fascist state. ........

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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago

They'll never claim an ounce of the responsibility they deserve, the fucking scumbags

[–] Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Protest non-voters accounted for maybe 800k, while RFK accounted for 1.3m.

But sure, let's keep blaming voters instead of the Democrats that chose to represent Republican Liteβ„’.

[–] seejur@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Republican lite at this moment sounds a lot more refreshing than Republican nazi

[–] Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

No shit. Trump whispered sweet nothings to those outside his MAGAt base by appealing to affordability and peace. Since then, he's followed through on exactly none of that.

In the past, people like Obama at least lied to Americans about what they would deliver as president, while shortly thereafter doing the same as Trump. Democrats in 2024 couldn't even lie their faces off by speaking to the same points as Trump. Well, Kamala did after first when she brought Walz on board, but that quickly changed come the DNC where she said she wouldn't diverge one bit from Biden.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (7 children)

I'm informing protest-non-voters what they actually voted for.

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[–] motor_spirit@lemmy.world 48 points 3 days ago (5 children)

"christians" just do not give a fuck about kids unless they're touching them or oppressing brown ones smfh

[–] sunflowercowboy@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I appreciate the quotations. Many people do not understand that inherently they have to wear this mask. Christianity was founded on martyrs who died for what they believed. If Jesus only did 2 'exorcisms' and one of them was to inspire mary Magdalene and the other to dissuade Legionnaire propaganda. Hence the Legion story becomes a fascists pig criticism.

Then again, most christians don't even understand how Jesus existed in a post empire world. Or how that empire made him into the depiction of the devil too.

Jewish traditions essentially praise god and then renounce him for one's self journey. This is why you wish to see angels, messengers, and not the god. The powers in place are usually not your ally, but your family and love can help you prevail.

Do not call god by name, respect his power but give no more. This starts to seem as rules for surviving.

They purposely don the name to weaken the capability of people even attempting to unite behind it. Even if Jesus came back.

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Obviously a clerical error. The decimal place is off. It's supposed to be 0.00

[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Probably a blessing in disguise. If they were funding climate research it would almost certainly be fraudulent science.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 22 points 3 days ago (2 children)

They had a corps of competent people with civil service protections who were getting paid out of that budget. They avoided committing fraud during the first Trump administration

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