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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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[–] budget_biochemist@slrpnk.net 19 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

In 2024, [Florida] Republican lawmakers prohibited cities and counties from requiring heat protections for workers, such as mandatory shade or water breaks.

Florida and Texas republicans, always competing to see who can be the cruelest pricks.

[–] BigMacHole@thelemmy.club 13 points 21 hours ago

RICH People have AC so WHY should we Care? That's a WASTE of Money giving POOR People AC to!

-Pro Life Americans on Welfare!

[–] WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today 8 points 21 hours ago

"PROPAGANDA! It's never been 118°!"

Frantic whispering...

"Wait, what?!? They're not using Celsius?!? What kind of neanderthals are they?!?”

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 7 points 20 hours ago

Death Party doing Death Party things