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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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The planet is overheating. Why is the news looking away? Since 2021, global media coverage of climate change has dropped 38 percent. Blame wars, political chaos, and Jeffrey Epstein. (grist.org)

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[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 7 points 8 months ago

Sing along if you know the words:

The purpose of news corporations is not to inform. The purpose of news corporations is not to serve the public interest. The highest priority of any news corporation is to make money.

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