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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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Europe must choose between AI and climate goals, data center lobby says (www.politico.eu)
submitted 1 week ago by HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org to c/climate@slrpnk.net
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cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/31597508

Great timing and phrasing. "Be slow about slop development ooor.. Burn everyone and everything!"

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[–] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

What I find interesting is that a lot of these changes which are attributed to the purportedly "inevitable" changes associated with AI, are real consequences of climate change.

  • loss of employment? Check.
  • profound change to living conditions? Check.
  • threathening the continuity of human civilization? Check.
  • threathening the capability to compete on national scales if the change is not reponded to swiftly by governments? Check.
  • Correlated with obscene amounts of wealth concentration, impoverishing the huge majority of people, and disintegrating societies? Check.

It's as if AI is used as a distraction. Like the "accusation in a mirror pattern".