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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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[–] StopTouchingYourPhone@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I can't wrap my head around being against figuring out how to feed people while the world's climate drastically changes.

And it's all one project, north or south of the US-CA border.

td;dr of the link - 2013 Harper government in Canada passed an omnibus bill that muzzled scientists studying the tar sands, fish farms, climate change... there were thousands of very sudden job cuts to fisheries and oceans, thousands of cuts to unionized support staff, he eliminated the Hazardous Materials Information Review Commission, etc...

As Maude Barlow and renowned freshwater scientist David Schindler wrote in The Star Phoenix, “The Harper government is systematically dismantling almost every law, regulation, program or research facility aimed at protecting freshwater in Canada and around the world.” Harper even killed the Global Environmental Monitoring System, an inexpensive project that monitored 3,000 freshwater sites around the world for a UN database.

“This government has abandoned evidence-based policy-making to pursue its own brand of policy-based evidence-making.” - Megan Leslie (NDP).