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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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[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (16 children)

How did florida become a shithole btw? As a european for a long time i thought florida was a hotspot for queer culture.

[–] Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi 27 points 8 months ago (14 children)

From what I hear, it's left wing in the big cities, right wing everywhere else. And the electorates or whatever they call them are Gerrymandered so that the right wing areas have more voting power than the left wing. Basically the local government is doing everything they can to keep in power, shitty or not.

Don't quote me though. I'm an Aussie and it's only my probably biased opinion.

[–] xilliah 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Why do you think people gerrymander? Do they get money for it?

Seems strange to me to go into US politics to then to be anti democratic.

[–] NattyNatty2x4 2 points 8 months ago

Are you asking why people who want to hoarde power would try to corrupt a system that resists their attempt to hoarde power?

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