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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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Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable energy (www.the-independent.com)

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[–] David_Eight@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Its even possible in the US. Iowa gets 100% of their energy from renewables and Vermont is over 99%.

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[–] WalleyeWarrior@midwest.social 7 points 7 months ago

The numbers have been circulating that we could take all the cropland dedicated to growing corn for ethanol fuel, throw solar panels on it, and generate enough electricity to cover ALL US energy needs

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