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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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[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Good thing NOAA has sensors in the ocean to track and study these things.

[–] MML@sh.itjust.works 8 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe we should bomb an oil refinery

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

That causes a lot of local harm. You get a wide variety of oil byproducts dumped on all the people within a few miles of the refinery and if it used HF as a catalyst, you may immediately kill a huge number of people. Graceful shutdown is far preferable

[–] impairedimperator@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 hours ago

To be fair all of that is still true while the refinery is running. There's a reason that Refinery Row and the Cancer Belt overlap almost perfectly in texas.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

We've been trying to gracefully shut them down for 50 years.

I think the short term consequences outweigh the long term consequences of not doing it.

But it probably makes more sense to target the boats trying to pickup the oil from the refineries, while they're empty. Yemen and Iran have shown the efficacy of underwater suicide drones.

[–] bluesheep@sh.itjust.works 21 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

"Urgent climate warning"

Warnings are useless if you don't heed them, take some fucking action ffs

[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

I did. I stopped using plastic straws and I don't use hairspray and I don't commute to work and I recycle... You know, I just can't shake the guilt of my actions. I just need to do more. If I had a private jet, I would stop flying on it.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 hour ago

Only free-range billionaire meat.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

Buy one and don't fly it.

[–] phtheven@lemmy.world 30 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

At which point do we rename it to El Hombre

[–] Bentdreadnot@lemmy.world 6 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

My outdated gender stereotypes suggest la mujer goes first

[–] Eric@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 hours ago

That would be better for La Niña wouldn't it?

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 1 points 3 hours ago

Trying to blame women for the world's problems, eh?

[–] TheFrirish@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

And after El hombre you can elevate to la Doña Elena

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

Beware her most powerful weapon: La Chancla

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 29 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Anyone else notice that recently once in a century events happen every season?

[–] HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 6 points 18 hours ago

We'll simply borrow future centuries as needed for each one. Duh.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 points 18 hours ago

Yeah but there are hundreds, if not thousands of things that happen once in a century.

It's when you start running into the same thing over and over again.

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 23 points 19 hours ago

Alright, who used plastic straws this time?