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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] 17 points 13 hours ago

Phew! Well, that's a relief!

I was getting worried for a while....

[–] [email protected] 54 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

I find it really baffling that climate change denial is so strong in America given the ectreme effects the country is already seeing.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Actually those hurricanes are caused by gay sex and women having abortions. /s

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I thought the democrats had a machine?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Well how do you supposed the machine is powered?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, Republicans have spent decades systematically destroying public education in this country, and this is the end result. When Trump said "I love the poorly educated" back in 2016 he wasn't really saying anything new or breaking from the mainstream GOP stance... He was just honest about it, unlike the rest of the GOP who have always described their supporters with cynical euphemisms like "salt of the earth" and "regular folk" when they really mean ignorant rubes.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 14 hours ago

the common clay of the new west.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Because that's work of Soros, chemtrails and HAARP /s

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I'm suspicious that 5G and space lasers has something to do with it as well....🤔

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

But it's cool if Elon does the space stuff and starlink and such?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 17 hours ago

Even the oil companies admit the climate is changing, they just refuse to take responsibility. These clowns are in straight up denial mode. Just pretend the hurricanes aren't there and disregard your thermometers. It will all be fine. Oops, ignore that forest fire... it's, uh, just an illusion.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

I had someone tell me the other day that the whole worlds gonna get cancer and end because 5g network towers have to be 400 yards apart and within 10 years everyone's gonna have cancer and die ending the world. I was like while I don't think radio waves are good for us, I had to ask.. What pipe are you smoking off of?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 16 hours ago

Remember when everyone that got the COVID shot would be dead in 2 years.

These are Christian nationalists, they love death cults.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

while I don't think radio waves are good for us

Can you elaborate?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

AM radio waves transmit some pretty racist and hateful shit…

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

You should listen to 80m some day...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago

I guess when the FCC collapses during the next administration I can finally implement my project idea that does text transcription and then just automatically starts broadcasting Ram Ranch whenever hate speech is detected.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 18 hours ago

Have fun selling Florida to Aquaman.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 15 hours ago

I just saw this movie a day or 2 after the election. I felt it would have been funnier had the outcome been different, but now it feels less like satire.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 27 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I hope his home gets destroyed by a climate-induced natural disaster.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

is it a natural disaster when members of one of the endangered species destroys it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

"Here we can see a mob of angry homo sapiens, recently displaced by a flood, attacking another member of their species they deemed responsible for it. You can see the difference in status by the angry mob mostly using improvised weaponry but even some better armed individuals joined this attack, showing, that in these trying times, empathy is still strong in a lot of members of this species" - David Attenborough, hopefully 2025

[–] [email protected] 36 points 19 hours ago

There's no climate crisis, but guys, there are evil Democrat controlled weather machines that generate hurricanes and droughts! Coal power plants, mines, oil refineries, old landfills, all emit radio waves and lasers to communicate on the GHG network with satellites that generate the weather!!!!

[–] [email protected] 55 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

They've saved us! Just like when they fixed COVID by telling people to stop testing and then sent our tests over to Putin

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

Not enough people took ivermectin and injected bleach.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 20 hours ago

they did save us....

by losing enough elections in 2020.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Facts don’t care about your opinions. When Florida ends up underwater., when the dustbowl gets worse and people start baking, you can try to blame everything else but the fact will still remain.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 18 hours ago

The people in charge don't care about long term solutions, they want short term profits by continuing to rape the planet. They figure they would be dead before climate change actually happens or they make money from it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Im not giving an opinion, nor am I disputing the science . I'm facepalming that this level of stupidity is a reality.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Sorry meant to post that at the top level about the people trying to ignore the issue. That wasn’t aimed at you.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 19 hours ago

No problem at all., I appreciate the clarification. Hope you have a nice day.