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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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[–] ODGreen@slrpnk.net 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How dare they damage the frame of an artwork and make the curators have to wipe off soup from the protective plexiglas, while leaving the artwork entirely intact?

How dare they throw easily-removed biodegradable cornstarch-based paint onto Stonehenge? Don't these monsters know Stonehenge is made of such fragile stones?

[–] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 month ago

But it potentially could have damaged the lichens which will totally not be affected by climate change!!! Won't someone think of the lichens?!

[–] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 22 points 1 month ago

If the earth is fucked, the art won’t matter anyway. Fossil fuel companies continue to ruin the planet and expensive art is something that only the wealthiest can afford. So I view this like I do BDS: an attack on the things the wealthy need and want (money) because it’s the only attack vector available to the working class. The art is secondary to the message anyway. You don’t have to support the tactics but it helps to understand how we got here and recognize that extreme responses to extremely dire situations are going to become more commonplace as things inevitably get worse.

Also, the art has protective plexiglass over it and soup wipes off.

[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Art isn't going to matter if noone is alive to look at it.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

Because Oligarchs own the world

[–] LunchMoneyThief@links.hackliberty.org 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I bought high altitude land in the hopes that it will eventually become beachfront property. C'mon, climate. Change!

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 1 month ago

I bought beach front property to sell to Aquaman.

[–] Iapar@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago

At this point destroy the paintings for real. Not to demonstrate against oil or climate stuff but to demonstrate against the sentencing. Not "just stop oil" but "stop unjust jail time"

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