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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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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

In a roundabout way yes I think it is

Petrochemical companies are lobbying hard with politicians able to be bought because science is basically suggesting we essentially kill the entire industry off as expediently as possible—they are doing anything they can to stave that off for as long as they can, and they have a shitload of money to use on that goal.

If a politician can be bought, particularly over something as urgent as climate change, they are clearly going to value personal success over collective success—which pretty much always leads to right-wing authoritarianism.

Right-wing authoritarians are very good at propagandising rubes who don't pay enough attention to the big picture when they've got the funds to do so.

And here we are with the current situation.

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 4 points 10 hours ago

These are just symptoms of unregulated Capitalism.

Climate change is an externality.

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 9 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

The headline is on backwards

[–] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 4 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Unfettered capitalism is strangling the working class. People are angry that they're worse off than their parents were, and looking for someone to blame. Failure to keep corporate power in check is causing both climate change and the rise of populism and authoritarianism.

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

No it isn't.

Maybe fossil fuels?