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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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US and Iran are world’s only major emitters [of greenhouse gases] without net-zero targets (www.carbonbrief.org)
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[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Up until this war they had access to Chinese exports, which include both solar panels and wind turbines

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago

Still hanging on the point of whether we even bothered to ask if they were interested in net-zero. Doubt they've been invited to discuss the topic since the war started either.