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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

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Ski resorts try 'snow farming' to save manmade snow for next year (www.nbcnews.com)

submitted 7 months ago by derry@midwest.social to c/climate@slrpnk.net

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Anything besides addressing the real problem

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[–] derry@midwest.social [S] 11 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Fair criticism, I'll own it. Apologies for being snarky. It's frustrating to see how bad things are with the climate and see little done about it. I agree, do what can be done within the systems we're given. Peace.

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[–] ptz@dubvee.org 5 points 7 months ago

Trust me, I get it. I just get more frustrated when someone takes a small step in the right direction and then people chastise them for not taking a huge step. Like, you gotta start somewhere. Feels counterproductive to do that, but it's so common on Lemmy for people to let perfect be the enemy of good that I figured I'd say something.

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