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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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It Just Got Way Easier to Sue Fossil Fuel Companies Over Climate Change: For years, industry has argued you can’t prove which company caused which disaster. A new study says otherwise. (www.motherjones.com)

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The paper is here

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[–] silence7@slrpnk.net [S] 20 points 2 months ago

Pretty much. Though greenhouse gases mix in the atmosphere pretty thoroughly, so responsibility is almost surely in direct proportion to cumulative historical emissions

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