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silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 13 days ago

The US Is Giving Away $35 Billion a Year to Cook the Planet | Fossil-fuel producers should be taxed to defray the cost of climate change, not be given even larger subsidies.

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The US Is Giving Away $35 Billion a Year to Cook the Planet | Fossil-fuel producers should be taxed to defray the cost of climate change, not be given even larger subsidies.

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silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 13 days ago
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    You can’t buy back a cooler planet with “offsets”. Forget taxing the fossil fuel industry, it needs to be dismantled.

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      Agreed. I am all for skyrocketing gas prices, though. I’ve seen enough buses (suburbans, expeditions, etc) commuting long distances. It’s silly, and wasteful.

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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: IPCC AR6 Figure 2 - Thee bar charts: first chart: how much each gas has warmed the world.  About 1C of total warming.  Second chart:  about 1.5C of total warming from well-mixed greenhouse gases, offset by 0.4C of cooling from aerosols and negligible influence from changes to solar output, volcanoes, and internal variability.  Third chart: about 1.25C of warming from CO2, 0.5C from methane, and a bunch more in small quantities from other gases.  About 0.5C of cooling with large error bars from SO2.

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