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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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The Same Billionaires Behind the Super Bowl Are Also Behind the Climate Crisis: The Kansas City Chiefs’ current owner, Clark Hunt, comes from one of the most powerful oil dynasties in US history. (truthout.org)
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[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 16 points 9 months ago (2 children)

That this has a pile of upvotes suggests a bunch of people do care.

[–] the_third@feddit.de 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Let me rephrase then: An insufficient amount of people cares, the expectation that this information alone might trigger a sufficient change in consumption patterns will not be fulfilled.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

No one piece of information is going to change social norms like that. It takes a bunch of community and movement building. Distributing information is only part of the pelrocess

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The only way to make change is to make the desired change profitable to megacorps.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 3 points 9 months ago

Or make failing to make the change expensive. That works too.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Sorry but 0.0000004% rounds to 0. Lol