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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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About 2% of natural gas supplied to a Midwest city leaks into the atmosphere (phys.org)
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[–] bigfish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 6 days ago

Simultaneously better than I thought and worse than I expected.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Put the name in the dang title.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 4 points 6 days ago

But then how clickbait?

[–] Octavio@piefed.social 4 points 6 days ago

It's Indianapolis. I knew it from the thumbnail and I haven't been to the Midwest in decades. Weird.

[–] jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

any studies on which buildings, because fining would be a reasonable solution if it's mostly from commercial /industrial buildings but would be unpopular if it's mostly residential.