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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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[–] Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone 35 points 1 week ago

The anti-protestor laws have made it a necessity for arrests in order to have anything remotely resembling a successful protest. Our right and civil duty to protest has been criminalised, and the fucking pigs are complicit.

Police are the honour guard of the climate apocalypse.

[–] taldennz@lemmy.nz 22 points 1 week ago

Look. If there's anything damaging the environment, we'll just tow it out of the environment...

More seriously. Given our current NZ government's attitudes, I fear a similar pattern to emerge here.

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 17 points 1 week ago

WE'RE NUMBER ONE! WE'RE NUMBER ONE! WE'RE NUMBER ONE! WE'RE NUMBER ONE! WE'RE NUMBER ONE!

*Gets arrested for protesting*

[–] kurikai@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How long is jail time of protesting vs murder?

[–] Donk@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago

THIS IS THE QUESTION

[–] Etterra 10 points 1 week ago

That's okay, when climate change turns Australia into Mad Max, us Americans will be over here in our christofascist hellscape drying from measles and paying for the privilege, so we won't notice.

What, you expected there to be a bright side? Dafuq cloud is your head in?

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 8 points 1 week ago

You didn't protest hard enough when they took away our right to protest. sucks to suck.

will target "anarchist protesters"

we don't fucking protest. anti-protester legislation is only targeting people who still think the state can be reasoned with.

Keep rolling that dice. Please.

[–] Donk@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] Zozano@lemy.lol 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As an Australian, I can confidently tell you, as a matter of fact, that I'm a paid actor, who lives in some kind of amorphous aether between the mesosphere and troposphere.

I'm surprised we get internet up here.

[–] wondrous_strange@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I hope you get paid well since it sounds like a tough job!!

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

I could’ve sworn I literally saw an article like a week ago saying it was the UK