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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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[–] Flamekebab@piefed.social 33 points 7 hours ago

The right wing has easy answers to difficult questions. Admittedly those answers are generally "don't listen to science, it's scary, listen to us, let's pretend together".

[–] 0xtero@beehaw.org 16 points 6 hours ago

Right wing conservatives are in power. Not surprising

[–] Subdivide6857@midwest.social 20 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

You mean the more “ethical” capitalists are abandoning the people? Wild.

[–] solo@piefed.social 12 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Yep. To my understanding, in the Nordic model, capitalism continues to devour all socialist tendencies.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 8 points 5 hours ago

The entire world is electing right wing populists right now, little to do with the Nordic model.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 6 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

yup. the nordic model is only sustainable if you ignore who suffers under it: the people where the oil is extracted, the indigenous Sami people, and people of the Romani diaspora.

[–] Bigfishbest@lemmy.world 1 points 4 minutes ago

You have less than no clue what you're talking about.

[–] Velypso@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 hours ago

Whoa, brother.

Are you asking Nordic Europeans to not be racist?

Thats just completely unacceptable.

[–] dotslashme 11 points 7 hours ago

Yeah no shit, our environmental minister is a complete asshat.