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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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World will look back at 2023 as year humanity exposed its inability to tackle climate crisis, scientists say (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (5 children)

It is too late.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago

It's too late for zero impact. It's not too late to stabilize temperatures at a civilization-supporting level.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Never too late to limit the impact as much as we can.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Well since you've been meddling in all affairs yes...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Nonsense. Just picture a "Mad Max: Beyond Thunder Dome" type of world.