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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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German business, politicians call for 5-year delay in climate targets (dpa-international.com)
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[–] sinkingship@mander.xyz 6 points 17 hours ago

The medievil age, or dark age, was just a few dozen generations ago. When humans used to burn women because of superstition and persecuted scientists as heretics. When it was common for children and mothers to die during childbirth. When disease killed a quarter or so of a population. When people died due to a bad tooth or a broken limb. When education was based a century's old fiction book. It took many curious and courageous lifes to establish the scientific method. This scientific method enabled us to go from riding horses to flying to the moon. To have pocket sized computers, that connect and enterntain us. Due to science we eradicated many terrible diseases and are on the verge to win over AIDS and cancer. Nowadays this science is available almost everywhere and anytime to almost anybody.

German businesses, politicians call for 5-year delay in climate targets

A lot, if not all of the things these businesses sell are based on science. Now they want us be ignorant to science again. Every action has a reaction! The law of physics does not wait for us to be ready. The science is clear: we can't delay reducing fossil fuel use any longer! And:

Screw anybody that tries to keep humanity ignorant and uneducated!