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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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BP board suffers triple climate rebellion from shareholders | More than 50% of voters at first AGM under new leadership oppose plans to scrap climate reporting (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Shareholders own other things to, and care about stuff like a planet for their grandkids to live on, not just the next quarterly profit.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 month ago

How selfish of them to put their own interests above the interests of profit for the entire corporation!

[–] iThinkDifferentThanU@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Lmao share whatever ya smokin

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 month ago

The management doesn't care. But people do, when you take away the indirection of control through mutual funds and such.