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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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[–] YourPrivatHater@ani.social 21 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The entirety of the project 2025 papers feel like the fucking isis Jihad Manifest and Mein Kampf had a incest child.

Oh and i feel like this is all just the surface, thats what they felt ok with publishing, they plan to go full on actual Nazi with more Religion shit.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We call that theocracy or theofascism (a more modern portmanteau). Religion is immensely useful for theocrats and fascists, because it has defacto in- and out-groups plus magic, superstition, and taboos—prime ingredients for making shit up in the name of power.

It is also worth noting that Christianity has been especially bad for climate change action, because even among progressive Christians, there's a belief that their god will intervene.

A fascist theocracy in the US would be globally disastrous for multiple reasons.

[–] YourPrivatHater@ani.social 2 points 3 months ago

That's the political therm, but that paper reads like i said.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's definitely the impression I get. We've got Republicans explicitly saying that their goal is to appeal to creeps:

the Trump campaign seems stuck in the strategy they had been counting on for months against Biden: demoralize Democrat voters so they stay at home while turning out the dirtbag vote with an overtly misogynist, trolling-based campaign. Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., explained the theory that they could get creepy dudes of every race with these tactics: "For every ‘Karen’ we lose, there is a ‘Julio’ and a ‘Jamal’ ready to sign up for the MAGA movement."

[–] shani66@ani.social 2 points 3 months ago

How can they say this stuff without questioning themselves? Even if they want to be evil you'd think they'd have the awareness to judge themselves as unappealing.