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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] 8 points 1 month ago

It's great that the UK got to vote in the other pro-oil party after 14 years of the pro-oil party. Thank goodness they dumped Corbyn, with his silly ideas of doing things to make people's lives better.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Wow that’s a lotta wasted cheese

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I love how part of their reasoning is to somehow help with our dependence on the whims of the international oil and gas markets, as if this in any way addresses that. Unlike, you know, £22bn worth of wind, solar, tidal or nuclear energy might?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

Government is blowing money on the oil and gas industry again, what a shocker. (Context: carbon capture is a scam)