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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 Trump administration is dismantling a $368 million deep-ocean observation system that monitors marine ecosystems and the effects of climate change.

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[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Are they going to make mean tweets and bring in their signs and strongly worded letters? That’ll surely stop them.

On an unrelated note, would anyone happen to know how one might get their hands on 535 car bombs?

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

Since Democrats hold a minority in both houses of Congress, noise is the one thing they can actually do. It works occasionally

It doesn’t, though, not for Democrats, because all they do is fold, but it does work for Republicans every fucking time for that exact same reason.