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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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[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Then how come they're not being put in jail?

[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world -3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Because they own significant portions of the government.

[–] mindlesscrollyparrot@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's terrible! We should organize a protest.

[–] Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 day ago

Maybe we should stage a harmless but seemingly extreme act, to point out this hypocrisy and to bring attention to the cause 🤔

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Well it seems like society and the justice system think it is okay then. So if the justice system says what they do is okay then how can you still have the opinion that it's just to punish people who poured soup on glass?