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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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Gas imports or solar panels? (infosec.pub)
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[–] 5715@feddit.org 5 points 3 weeks ago

Sorry, but 9.1 million MMBtu are a lot less useful than 1 GW of solar panels: machines vs fuel

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 5 points 3 weeks ago

angry German energy minister noises

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

difficult to justify invading other countries though for their solar, that's why we need to stay on oil, to prop up defence industries and provide education pathways for the poor /s

i guess you could argue too much sun falls on Iran ?

This is a climate group though and yet the economic arguments in some of these comments are bordering on insane :(

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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

I'll take solar and geo-thermal.

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