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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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Opinion | I’m a Young Conservative, and I Want My Party to Lead the Fight Against Climate Change (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

In US, more people line up for the employment queue every week simply by turning old enough to work than those 36000 employed in the coal industry. Coal jobs is a total non issue.

3 million children are being born every year. We never hear anyone complaining about that? A lot of them will need to work 2 jobs, so that's 6 million jobs missing every year! The coal jobs is not even one percentage of that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Don't do the math! It makes all their fear-mongering look stupid!

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