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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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[–] jeffw@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago

Well that's... a take

[–] demesisx@infosec.pub 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Fuck Joe Lieberman.

I’m not in CT much. But when I do go there, my number one priority is to defecate on his grave.

This man was responsible for

millions

of deaths with his foreign policy.

He is also responsible for 70,000 deaths per year in the US since he blocked the public option in 2009. which equates to roughly 1,050,000 deaths in the US since that year.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

So tired of these fawning articles trying to rehabilitate Lieberman’s image after his death. This dude was about as much of a democrat as Joe Manchin.

[–] silence7 -1 points 9 months ago

At the end of the day, having Manchin around meant we got something instead of nothing. He wasn't the person I'd have chosen in a primary, but he was the person we had, and he came through in a way that is making a difference.