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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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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (11 children)

That is absurd on its face.

ICE cars haven't significantly improved in close to a century, electric cars are becoming more affordable, efficient, and sustainable every year.

ICE cars are much more trouble to maintain and cost more to maintain.

ICE cars release more pollutants, while electric cars are annually decreasing and can continue to decrease their pollutants.

There's a huge difference between electric and ICE, don't let since imagined ideal stop you from supporting a practical leap in the right direction.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Seems like you dont understand the problem

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

The problem is obviously a general over reliance on motorized road transport and a continuing trend towards more.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If that's the problem, what is the question?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

"How can we sell large homes on cheap land outside of the city, while people still need to get 20km into the city daily for work and groceries?"

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