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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€“] flossdaily@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be actually fair, these companies lied to the rest of us about the environmental damage they were doing, and have caused an untold number of deaths via the effects of climate change, with that number poised to shoot up exponentially.

The executives of those companies endangered our global ecosystem. It may even be the case that they have set us on a path to extinction.

They should all be in jail for life. Their companies should have been seized by the government and converted with all speed to renewable energy.

It's nothing short of suicidal insanity that that didn't happen the moment we discovered what they knew and hid from the world.

[โ€“] Talaraine@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

After all, corporations are people. Prison time.