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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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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 17 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

The Overton Window in Canada got shifted so far to the right that it made the Conservative Party redundant

[–] KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca 11 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Yup I'm voting NDP next time, need to rename themselves to the Neoliberal party.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca -4 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

You do you. I well never vote NDP till they change their policies. And start caring about workers again. But I'm a white male and they don't care about me anyway.

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 5 points 19 hours ago

They are lucky if they have a working pipeline in 2040. We can already see EVs having a huge impact on oil demand. It looks like oil consumption in China is falling already and I would not be surprised if this is also the case in Europe. So Canada would sell into a shrinking market. Not only that but Canadian oil is expensive to produce. So there is a good chance it ends up burning money.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Why did we vote for this guy again?

[–] Trex202@lemmy.world 9 points 19 hours ago