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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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Many scientists don’t want to tell the truth about climate change. Here’s why (www.wbur.org)
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Right?

Poor people and folk from less developed countries are disproportionately going to be made to suffer horrendously before they die.

This is not about stopping it. It is about damage reduction.

It's like saying we shouldn't really care for people who come into the accident room because they are going to die, eventually, anyway.

In my experience doomers are just looking for a convenient excuse not to do anything, but they suddenly become really motivated when it's their home that is flooding, or on fire, or flooded and on fire.