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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 Crisis fuelled the storm"

Yeah. That is true of every storm. It's the reason we keep getting "once a decade" storms every few months, and "once a century" storms yearly. It will keep being a problem.

Seems weird to choose a sunken yatch to focus on, but I guess when rich fucks don't give a shit, you have to make the point that it affects them too.

Side note: former enlisted navy and I know quite a few people who are/were in the US coast guard. You would not believe the number of abandoned small watercraft that get found, but since it's not something big, it either doesn't go toward the big headline news counts, or just doesn't even get recovered because nobody wants to stop for a kayak that's half-sunk with no visible person or life vest.

Makes me wonder how many people die at sea every year that nobody knows about simply because they were too poor for people to care, or too unconnected for someone to notice.

[–] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Alt headline -

Billionaires sank billionaire's yacht

[–] beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago

😂🙏 exactly! sub headline: [billionaires sink billionaire’s yacht] because the cost of revenge murder is way less than that of the other lawsuit

[–] beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 weeks ago

Who benefits from this article, this spin?

HP already shows how greedy they are by their printer gouging. Now we see they’ll murder a yacht full of people (allegedly!) and whoever else to avoid paying billions in the lawsuit they just avoided. By murdering people.

Allegedly! but we all know how this works now

[–] uebquauntbez@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

They sow the wind and reap the whirlwind?