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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Correct, there has always been climate change ... most of the change in the past happened over a millennia ... and some of it was catastrophic with changes happening over short periods of time and it usually meant the death of millions of life forms

The current climate change period we are living in is human made most definitely .... if our descendents survive, (or whatever new species takes over ... or even if artificial intelligence takes over) tens of thousands or millions of years from now - when they look back at the geologic record, they'll wonder why there was a weird global distribution of radiation and toxic material everywhere and they will notice the fact that a large percentage of species everywhere died off at around the same time we started to develop into the technological / communications age

Climate change has happened in the past ... what most people that say this leave out is the fact that it tends to kill off many creatures that can't adjust to the changes ... and if the changes are dramatic enough, it tends to cause a mass die off of creatures on the planet ... and what many of these proponents tend to conveniently leave out is that WE may be one of those species that will die out because we won't be able to survive these changes. We're technologically smart and we are creative ... but this isn't Hollywood, we won't pull off a last minute super hero, Hail Mary, super smart group of people get to save the day at the last possible moment ... if things fall apart, it will happen slowly over decades until we all fall apart, society fails and we all just slowly fade away because there is nothing liveable left to save ourselves.