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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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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I was gonna say it is different because you don't have to blow any pipes up to get kids to behave, but then I realized that parents are constantly blowing up their pipes full blast to try to get kids to listen and behave.

Honestly, I think parents should blow more oil pipelines up instead of blowing up at their kids, their kids are sad, depressed and acting out because of the oil pipelines and all the awful consequences they entail in the first place anyways.

They say multitasking is essential as a parent, so whenever you get the chance to hit two birds with one stone (don't hit your kids, this is a metaphor) it is usually a good idea to take advantage of it!

TL;DR Cut to the heart of the problem, sabotage oil companies, don't yell at your kids.

Just to be clear, while I used a lot of metaphors here, I want to be in no way ambiguous about this, I am directly imploring us all to blow up some oil pipelines to defend the future of our kids whether that means literally jamming a stick in the apparatus of the fossil fuel machine or doing so indirectly, just whatever you do don't hurt innocent people, that defeats the entire purpose of blowing up oil pipelines in the first place. Also don't yell at your kids, it really doesn't solve anything most of the time.

Don't call me a radical, my voice is shrill because I soberly understand the implications of this sea surface temperature graph, in no uncertain terms this is undeniable evidence of mass murder being recorded in real time, the murder just hasn't happened yet mostly, there are unbelievably large amounts of excess heat energy in the ocean right now, many many many many nuclear bombs silently firing off every moment you breath in and out, foreclosing any kind or humane future for any of us, human or not.

https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/

living your life as if we have some long future ahead of us is a radical act of willing delusion, I don't say this to hurt people I say this to emphasize the unfolding truth here

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

So eat lots of edibles and play lots of video games because nothing matters? Roger that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Yes Commanduh, you are authorized to begin this mission

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What should I do instead? Stop eating all animals products and act smug online? That doesn't sound like a lot of fun. I wonder if there are vegan edibles, there has to be right? Surely there is a gelatin product that is vegan?

Now I'm wondering how delicious a nice fresh salad with Italian dressing would be on some edibles. Mmmm

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There are vegan gummies my friend

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I knew the technology existed!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So you could say I've been right for decades

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

The only loser when it comes to climate change is literally everyone.