this post was submitted on 24 Feb 2025
136 points (100.0% liked)

Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.

5885 readers
304 users here now

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.

Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:

Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
136
Texas Lawmakers Scramble To Stop Solar Energy But It Just Keeps Coming (cleantechnica.com)
submitted 6 days ago by Sunshine to c/[email protected]
4 comments fedilink hide all child comments
top 4 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 53 points 6 days ago (2 children)

This future is so weird "YOU'RE GOING TO BREATHE CLEAN AIR AND HAVE FREE ENERGY WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT!!!" Texas:"Nooooo help we're being oppressed"

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's a lot simpler than that: Texas has a HUGE oil and natural gas industry lobby that views wind and solar as existential threats.

Oil & gas is mostly consolidated and lobbies under just a few really powerful firms. Wind and solar don't have a lobbying arm with that kind of power. It's too dispersed with too many disperate entities that don't view themselves as being on the same team.

It's just another way that money in politics corrupts everything. Even though there's more players in the solar and wind markets the oil & gas industry has a lot more money to throw around at lobbying.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

It's a lot simpler than that: Texas has a HUGE oil and natural gas industry lobby that views wind and solar as existential threats.

This cannot be overstated. I live in Texas and was recently a part of jury selection, and the number of people who have had or are currently getting kickbacks from oil companies was shockingly high. They don't just influence politicians, they influence the average voter simply by paying them a lot of money to scout on their property or operate a well.

They have so much influence in Texas, it's astounding.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

"No! My dystopias!"

They'll always have Gilead.