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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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Disneyland faces pressure to electrify its stinky 'Autopia' ride, and quick (electrek.co)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

And boomers on Facebook are crying emoji reacting, and talk about how they could tune and repair 1970's engines on the side of the road with minimal tools.

Goddamn car enthusiasts, they need their choice of transportation to be literally evil.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Boomers: "I used to be able to fix my car myself"

Also boomers: "New cars should have heated gas pedals"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

I wouldnt go as far as to call the horseless carraige evil, but you could absolutely argue that between how they isolate people in bubbles, kill pedestrians and are contributing to climate change anti-social for sure