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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] 12 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

The EU is capable of resisting Trump pretty well. However many countries are not. That is honesty the real problem here.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Short term, the countries that can’t say no, will say yes. However, they will seek alternative markets for purchase and sale. It damages the relationship for short term gain, all paid by the business and American consumer.

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

Fuck Trump and the horse he rode in on (Musk), but he is doing wonders for UK/EU relations.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Further proof he doesn't even know what the word means

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago

I'd be surprised if he could spell his own name at this point.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 21 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

This is the most Putin sounding shit I ever read

[–] [email protected] 1 points 43 minutes ago

It's just a bad move and stupid threat. I don't want Russian oil and gas...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

American does generic American thing: "this is just like the foreign bad guys in my TV show!"

[–] [email protected] 33 points 21 hours ago