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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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[–] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 93 points 3 weeks ago

The first woman over 25 he's interested in!

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 34 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

At first, I was like, "Who cares?"

But as I think about it, people and especially Conservatives, love to use the Wolf of Wall Street as a source of memes and personal meaning. They imagine their heroes are Jordan Belfort "sticking it to the elites," and I have to wonder if they won't feel some kind of cognitive dissonance when they want to use this character in the future, now that DiCaprio has come out against Trump and in support of Harris.

[–] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Narrator: They experienced no cognitive dissonance whatsoever, and things remained unchanged.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 2 points 3 weeks ago

I know you're being facetious, but just to be clear for those in the back (since the internet often misunderstands words), you can experience cognitive dissonance and still continue doing the same things afterwards.

It's just that uncomfortable feeling when you are presented with an idea that conflicts with your beliefs about reality. I fully expect they'll figure out how to get past it with some mental gymnastics, a thought-terminating-cliche, or (gasp) accepting reality and recognizing that the character is fictional.

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

They used a gay actor I to BDSM for anti covid memes, so I dont that sekc reoefction is their strong suite.

[–] Zementid@feddit.nl 9 points 3 weeks ago

Says the guy who uses private jets, yachts and helicopters.... preach water drink wine.

[–] fubarx@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

He has a chance to reach the all-important under-25 demographic.

[–] MayonnaiseArch 1 points 3 weeks ago

Oooof heheh

[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I’m just shocked that this is still up for debate. This year the weather has been erratic to say the least.

Worse even if Democrats win and there are no spoilers in the party (Mnuchin or Sinema), you are still only getting cap and trade which at one point was the Republican plan for climate change before they decided to go to full denialism.