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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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[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 28 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Another anonymous staffer called the laid-off workers “dedicated, hard-working civil servants who came to Noaa to help protect lives and keep our blue planet healthy”.

I’m afraid those goals are at odds with your leadership.

[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

All fossil fuel companies, plastic manufacturers and all around polluters just got unleashed and are ready to go all out. Protecting the planet is not the goal, no.

[–] water@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago
[–] Zoot@reddthat.com 7 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

What's stopping people from just ignoring trump and continuing to work?

[–] Fidel_Cashflow@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 weeks ago

I'd imagine the lack of income, probably

[–] Einstein@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 weeks ago

Most people don't like to work for free.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Homelessness, starvation, threat of police brutality...

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

Not getting paid. Not having physical access to buildings. Not having working accounts on government computers.