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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:

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40% of global ship traffic is simply moving fossil fuels around! Renewables make much of this traffic obsolete (media.piefed.zip)

submitted 8 months ago by inari@piefed.zip to c/climate@slrpnk.net

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40% of global ship traffic is simply moving fossil fuels around! Renewables make much of this traffic obsolete

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[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

I’m thinking the deep sea exploration pays a bit more than a guy who can hook some cables on a crate.

But wtf do I know…

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[–] ulterno@programming.dev 1 point 8 months ago*

But of course, if the extra exploration rate can be afforded, then so can their salaries.
The only thing that matters is whether there will be someone wanting to do so.

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