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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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[–] Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 2 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Marine carbon dioxide removal (CDR) initially drew enthusiasm from the private sector, but momentum is slowing down.

In this context, "private sector" means Microsoft. They're the one throwing tons of money at CDR projects. Seems they may be starting to learn that dead zones and ocean acidification aren't worth the overhyped gains

[–] AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

It still seems like the only possibly scalable solution. A hypothetical genetically engineered plant being dumped from ships in an ocean dead zone / desert, where it will do photosynthesis and drop pellets of heavier than water (nondegradeable) biopolymer to the ocean floor. No need to dump the fertilizer itself if the plant can store enough when it's bred in a floating bioreactor. It only needs to produce polymers.

Only in the vast ocean deserts could we use exponential growth of plants and the abundant solar energy and space.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 13 hours ago

It's more that Microsoft stopped buying CDR

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 2 points 16 hours ago

Once CFS finishes their PARC fusion reactor the calculus will change dramatically