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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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[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago (3 children)

At least it is electric. Throw the paint on a Dodge Ram 3500 that dwarfs the Cyber truck AND burns oil.

This is like protesting at a small free range chicken farm when there's an industrial chicken farm right next door.

[–] BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca 48 points 3 months ago

There's validity in going after something that specifically symbolizes Elon rather than a random gas guzzler. Though electric cars are (debatably) less harmful than regular ones, Elon has done a lot of work in setting back even better solutions by promoting them over things like trains.

Also he sucks for a million other reasons but he's definitely a sort of wolf in sheep's clothing when it comes to environmentalism.

[–] redisdead@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Y'all act like you can only throw paint at one car.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

But they only threw paint at one car.