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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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Another miserable year for nuclear power as renewables surge (reneweconomy.com.au)
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[–] jedibob5@lemmy.world 23 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I mean, at least it's a form of green energy that's surging instead of fossil fuels.

[–] GhostPain@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Big Oil has started funding nuclear. That's an automatic fail.

[–] vividspecter@aussie.zone 11 points 5 days ago

Classic delay tactic from the fossil fuel industry. Prop up some bullshit alternative that will never happen in order to delay the actual solution.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

In China, new nuclear capacity in 2025 amounted to 2.5 GW whereas solar capacity installed in the first 11 months of 2025 amounted to an estimated 275 GW.

This made me laugh out loud. But hey, nukular is totally the future, trust me, bro!