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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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[–] Eeyore_Syndrome@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Lol.

I can't even imagine owning a house nevermind land to have a charger on nevermind affording an electric vehicle.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Electric cars have come down a lot in price.

[–] glitch1985@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

When I totalled my hybrid the ev replacement was less than $2k more (and without the drama of negotiations with the dealership)

[–] kalkulat@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What the US needed was a pull-out-the-stops wartime operation. What we got was a lot of hot air and heel-dragging excuses. After all of these years, it's more than clear what side our 'leadership' is beholding to.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 4 points 4 months ago

We had proposals for much better legislation than we got — but not one Republican would vote for it, so we needed to get Joe Manchin, an actual coal baron, to decide what he'd be willing to accept.

[–] 50MYT@aussie.zone 1 points 4 months ago

In the future economists will look back and use this as a good example of supply v demand.

Inb4 EV charging costs go up so much the EV game gets nuked from the power of (lack of ) the sun