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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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In rare move, University of Utah faculty say school leaders should apologize to student over Earth Day flyers (www.sltrib.com)
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Juarez said the administrator told her she needed to remove the phrases “environmental justice” and “communities disproportionately affected by climate change” from the flyers and an email advertisement she had drafted.

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[–] DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world 27 points 6 days ago (1 children)

America is pro oil again. Climate change and environment is put in with DEI.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Again?

[–] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 days ago

Like to know when they think it wasn't? Like what?

[–] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 15 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

That ‘neutrality’ commitment by the university perfectly captures what most institutional commitments to political neutrality accomplish: repression.

I’m sure it contributes to the thriving and open academic environment that the university system was designed to protect:)

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago

Thats fucked up