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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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[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

It should also be a crime to spread propaganda from hostile foreign states.

Look at talking points on RT. Look at politicians who repeat them verbatim. Throw those treasonous fuckers in jail.

[–] dumnezero@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

However, Jensen said the problem was deeper than social media. “Alliances of industry and conservative thinktanks actually target misinformation at the key people who will be making decisions. Those links are particularly worrisome because it’s something approaching a conspiracy.”

In the European context, rightwing populist parties are “actively contravening climate science”, the report says, including the AfD in Germany, Vox in Spain, and the National Rally in France. Media outlets with conservative or rightwing political ideologies give priority to and amplify denial, scepticism and conspiracy theories regarding climate change, the report says.

They'll be the same ones demanding meat and cheese when the food crises start: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidrvetter/2025/06/18/us-and-europe-face-40-drop-in-food-production-scientists-warn/

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago

Agreed, climate change lies should be punished with jail time. Climate change has the very potential to end us all and we still deal with instigators by rolling out eyes. Screw these people, jail them, get rid of them, we need to focus on solving this