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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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What's your thoughts on this? (media.piefed.social)

submitted 1 year ago by Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social to c/climate@slrpnk.net

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[–] thann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Im fairly certain wood-burning generators exist

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[–] als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drax_Group

The uk government keeps giving them renewable energy subsidies because trees can regrow but ignore the fact that they cut down trees the other side of the world to burn them here. It releases all the carbon stored in the trees into the atmosphere and then they capture a small percentage of it back and pretend to be the good guys.

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