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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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[–] Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works 27 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think the world is slowly waking up to the fact that the West’s decades of power has largely come from the income and vast benefits of cheap access to energy. I have personally benefited from this as a western person as I know most have here. That said, due to the power structures that developed around this core, it is going to be vigorously defended, especially if head on attacked by small groups and individuals. We are no match for the power and influence of the oil and gas Industry. The only way to defeat is to personally suck up the costs of transitioning to green energy solutions even if it costs more than the gas it replaces. Further it is up to the West with its higher income to bite the bullet and take the financial hit to shift to green at the individual level as it is clear our governments are wrapped up in the core of the oil and gas power structure. No one is coming to save the planet…we have to step up. We the people need to act before too late.