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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] 19 points 1 day ago

For $4.2 million, the administration had just sold off the first 561 acres of Blue and Gold, an estimated 83,259 trees.

They’re selling off rights to log (miscategorized) old growth forest for an average of Fifty. Fucking. Dollars. Per. Tree. That’s damn near free.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

This is just like the oil. If its legally allowed they can't deny permits for individual companies as that would be playing favorites. The areas have to be protected and not allow for plans to be made to begin with. That is what democrats do but its hard and republicans take that status away. ugh folks are stupid.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

The spotted owls had long known of the impending demolition of Earth and had made many attempts to alert mankind to the danger...The last ever message was misinterpreted as a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to hoot "The Star-Spangled Banner", but in fact the message was this: "So Long, and Thanks for All the Mice."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Damn I was hoping they were better on this than British Columbia.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

But I was told repeatedly that Biden is the most progressive environmentalist president since Teddy. This can't be true /$.