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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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[–] Leviathan@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Haven't read the article, I'm gonna guess it's pressure from corporations losing profits.

Edit: yup.

Meanwhile, BC United has committed to scrap the CleanBC plan, saying it “will kill jobs, kill paycheques, kill billions in funding for vital public services and plunge our province into a recession.”

Aaand that's how they're gonna get the reactionaries to do their dirty work for them on social media. People will gladly blame a climate policy that will give their kids a better planet before they blame the corporation who cuts their wages and offloads their shrinking profits directly onto the workers.

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Great news! That means it is working and that means fossil fuel intressts are going to get weaker in British Columbia.

[–] PuddingFeeling907@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

I can’t wait until fossil fuel development ends here.