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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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[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 7 points 11 hours ago

Hey there, Betelgeuse (I'm assuming you're that shoulder of Orion). I'd just like to point out that the democrats have deliberately and repeatedly tried a failing strategy of just phoning it in and trying to win on nothing more than "I'm not Donald Trump" and celebrity guest appearances. They knew they were fucking cooked, and I did too when they released that video of Obama lecturing down at black men for not supporting Kamala enough. If you have to lecture your base, they didn't fuck up, you did.