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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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America Is Living in a Climate-Denial Fantasy | On climate, the U.S. and the rest of the planet are now in “completely separate worlds.” (www.theatlantic.com)
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[–] frazw@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

There was a comedy TV show on British TV in the 80s and 90s called red dwarf. There is one episode called justice where there is a prison with a justice field.

If you steal something, something of yours goes missing. If you attack someone, the injuries affect you not them. Etc.etc.

I sometimes wish it was a real thing. Countries that deny climate change and do nothing to address it should feel all of the consequences while everyone else get only the share they deserve according to their culpability and how much they have done to stop it.