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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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Climate change deniers make up nearly a quarter of US Congress | Climate denialists – 23 in Senate and 100 in House – are all Republicans and make US an outlier internationally (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] Visstix@lemmy.world 33 points 2 months ago

They do believe it's real, they are just corrupt assholes.

[–] FunderPants@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Don't worry about being an outlier, Canada is set to elect federal climate denying Conservatives soon enough.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months ago

Conservatism is an existential threat to us all.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago

As much as I hate you being right on this, you probably are 😭

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It would be tragic if they all suddenly died of heart failure. Just really, really sad.

[–] quicklime@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

Or heat stroke

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm 1 points 2 months ago

Then the companies would just lobby whoever takes their place.

[–] nothingcorporate@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

|. are all Republicans

Here's my surprised face 😐