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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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CNN poll: Large majority of US adults and half of Republicans agree with Biden’s goal to slash climate pollution (www.cnn.com)
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[–] rdyoung@lemmy.world -2 points 11 months ago

Damn, you really want to pick at nits and argue.

Go back and read my original comment. I said they weren't fighting it as much, not they were all in and had gone full hippy with it.

I'm not surprised that there is a good chance they are over stating things but I didn't make any claims about what or how much they had invested. I responded to your need to argue.

On that note, I don't have time for someone who has to keep looking for things to argue about and pick apart statements while taking them out of context or completely misunderstanding them assuming you actually read them all just so they can be right and have the last word.

You have a nice day now. Maybe you can find someone else to argue with.