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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] 28 points 1 week ago

He was also communicating a worldview that’s increasingly central to the political strategy of his allies in the U.S. conservative movement—that environmental advocates who push for urgent action to avert climate catastrophe are followers of a “pseudo-religion” seeking to impose socialist control over every aspect of modern society.

What an absolute, self-fallating idiot. But then, there's lots of money to be made by pretending to be smart in the right-wing griftosphere; it's not hard, when your slobbering demographic has the collective intelligence of a single snail and the attention of a toddler.

It's also a pretty big self-own to find religion, pseudo or otherwise, problematic. He's basically implying that people with religious zeal are irrational and authoritarian, and that says a lot more about him and his followers than it does about people who follow the science.

He's useful, because he is the lone "expert" they can wield like a club. Peterson will be remembered as having marginally interesting ideas, once upon a time, and descending into paranoid narcissism in his later years.