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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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[–] Audacious@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sheldon has a series of speeches called The Scheme, which he records and posts on YouTube as video, and on his website as written versions. https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/news/speeches/the-scheme-1-the-powell-memo/

The series goes into how the Republicans take over the Supreme Court shortly after the Civil Rights movements in the 1960s, around the time the parties switched. Sheldon goes into how dark money and Citizens United came into being, how it functions and influences court decisions and laws.

Then I found a website that tracks who in office takes dark money. To my great dissapointment, the man whistleblowning on dark money is listed there as taken dark money: https://www.trackaipac.com/congress

That website also follows new and upcoming candidates, but not all of them.

[–] redsand@infosec.pub 7 points 1 day ago

AIPAC is the DNC's biggest weakness. Makes them effectively controlled opposition

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

At the same time let's not forget about the Epstein hushing trend.

[–] QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

At this point, that's looking like a closed book. They will never release the files.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Plot twist - Epstein was just there to distract us from the space aliens.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I am from Rhode Island and I can affirm Sheldon Whitehouse is edit ok.

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago

I am also from Rhode Island, and would like to add a big asterisk: he has taken AIPAC money

[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

Warning people about incoming dangers is something a lot of people do. Sheldon is literally among billions.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah with countries now competing to not be left behind in AI wars, things aren't looking good for the climate.