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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 UK’s newly appointed minister for net zero is facing questions over her links to a think tank funded by oil giants that called for climate protesters to be jailed. (www.opendemocracy.net)
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[–] doublejay1999@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago

This government is balls deep in filth

[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

Every word uttered by a conservative is deception or manipulation. Every. Single. Word.

Never, ever trust a conservative.

[–] Ni@kbin.social 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nooo, can we just actually put someone useful in the position and see how that will help and improve things?

[–] inspxtr@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It’s probably a selection issue. Those who are useful are weeded out in politics games due to the bureaucracy and useless nonsense.

Then it’s a (d)evolution issue for the useful ones who got in. The politics games either slowly turn them useless or corrupt them enough that also renders them useless.

[–] Ni@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

It's true, but also quite damning of our whole political system. I just think we're well past the point of party politics with this issue, it all needs putting aside and we need to see real change.