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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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[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 7 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Somehow I’m not seeing your average deck hand transitioning into deep sea exploration.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Well, the average deck hand can stay working at the normal ships that are shipping other stuff.
The above average ones can become a deck hand for the newer vehicles for deep sea operations.

Both are probably already paid low enough that corporate can easily pay them while reducing shipping rates at the same time.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I’m thinking the deep sea exploration pays a bit more than a guy who can hook some cables on a crate.

But wtf do I know…

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 6 minutes ago* (last edited 6 minutes ago)

But of course, if the extra exploration rate can be afforded, then so can their salaries.
The only thing that matters is whether there will be someone wanting to do so.