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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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[โ€“] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Admittedly I hadn't actually read stuff on the link before commenting, and I assumed it was going to suggest the sorts of things I did.

Having gone through the little questionnaire, it suggested that I do all of the milktoast things like write to my congress members, vote, and join political campaigning and lobbying groups, which have all proven mostly ineffective (not that I advocate not voting, it's still useful as harm reduction). for the second part, the 'rolemodel' suggestions, it has a few of the things I suggested, along with joining local protests and activist groups, which I do see as helpful to establish connections with others.

I didn't get the investor, consumer, or professional paths, but I can imagine the investor path would indeed suggest something like you mentioned.

So yeah, I get why you'd be down on it, and share your sentiment.

[โ€“] SinAdjetivos@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Sorry to accidentally talk you into doing a questionnaire, lol. My assessment was based mostly on the front page and a little digging into the:

This guide was created by climate scientist Dr. Kimberly Nicholas and the team at Project Drawdown.

Based on that feedback though it sounds like I might have been being a bit too charitable if anything.