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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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Cop28 has finally named fossil fuels as the main climate problem. But do leaders have the will to act? | The real test is whether producers back it up with action (www.theguardian.com)
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[โ€“] jadero@slrpnk.net 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is why every time someone mentions climate tipping points, I try to make the argument that the only tipping point that matters happened circa 1980.

That is when Reagan (government is the problem, not the solution) and Thatcher (there is no such thing as society, only the individual) came to power and started aggressively dismantling those public institutions and programs that were necessary to keeping intact the people's power over the corporation. The program they and their cohort started has continued unabated for 40 years.

Never forget that every business, large or small, traded on a stock exchange or not, is organized as a totalitarian dictatorship, with power and wealth accruing to those at the top and their favoured few. Allowing that mentality into the halls of government has been, unsurprisingly, a destructive force, not a constructive, protective, or restorative one.

[โ€“] Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

You aren't wrong