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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: clueless voters risk returning Donald Trump to the White House (www.energymonitor.ai)
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Any chance of limiting global warming to 1.5˚C rests on Joe Biden being elected to a second term. Voters need an accurate accounting of Biden’s climate record ahead of the November 2024 election.

If you're in the US and want to get involved, you can volunteer or give to the Biden Victory Fund

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[–] andrewrgross 3 points 1 year ago

Shout out to Cornell West.

And before anyone picks a fight: I would vote for Biden if my vote made the difference between him and Trump, but we won't get anything from Biden unless we apply demands and pressure. We would not have any of Biden's climate legislation if he wasn't afraid of losing Bernie's voters. We absolutely need West running, or electing Biden will accomplish very little.