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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] 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That l's just because no one did a paper on molotov cocktails thrown at oil barons and politicians and their impact on climate

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

You're seriously underestimating the kinds of things that academia generates

Edit: and yes, the whole thing is meant as a joke. If you're actually using sabotage to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, turning around and selling social permission to pollute is just plain silly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I love science