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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] -4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah, no. Nuclear is a con. Don‘t believe and spread the energy industry‘s lies. They’re shitting on renewables, because they want consumers dependant on their crap which needs to be subsidised by the state because it’s not economically viable. Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

It’s easy to tell who’s been propagandized, because they care more about how much it will cost than actually saving the planet.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Ah, you assume there’s (or will be) unlimited funds set aside to fight climate change?
If that is so, why not plaster deserts with solar panels and the oceans with wind turbines. Would go a bit quicker than the 10-20 years it takes to finalise one nuclear power plant. The nuclear hype has no scientific basis.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I don’t assume unlimited funds. I know that the only way we can actually address climate change is to overthrow the capitalists driving the pollution. Ending their wars would provide far more than adequate funding, even before wealth redistribution.

I can’t imagine being so uninformed that you believe the advantages of nuclear energy has no scientific basis. On par with the flat earthers.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Jesus man, you want to end capitalism but fall for one of its biggest outfits? Also, right now there is just the capitalist reality and within that science tells us, that nuclear is economically not good enough to support the green transformation. I am fine with overthrowing capitalism, but till then we have to somehow manage with a reality that is inseparable from it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Nuclear is not capitalists’ “biggest outfit.” You’re thinking of oil, and they pay astroturfers to convince people like you to be anti-nuclear.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

I’m talking about the Energy Companies

Edit: the claim that the oil industry paid anyone to stop nuclear is a right wing lie. Please look it up, I don’t have the nerve for it anymore.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

the claim that the oil industry paid anyone to stop nuclear is a right wing lie.

Oil lobby bot confirmed.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

show me your proof that the oil industry paid for anti nuclear sentiment. And try to avoid right wing propaganda. then you may claim whatever you want.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

hm, so much…yet so little

But I hope you do know the content of your little collection here and know what a shaky case you have and what conclusions one could draw from that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

It wasn’t meant to convince you. It was meant to show the lurkers you’re full of shit. I’m confident they get the picture.

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