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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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Just sharing a book recommendation for explaining the topic to kids. I highly recommend the book Climate Change and How We'll Fix It by Alice Harman. I got it last year for my 8-year-old and was very impressed with it. I'd even say its approach would work well for explaining things to adults who aren't very informed on or engaged with the topic.

My 8-year-old was inspired by it to write and design a flyer to hand out to his classmates about climate change with 10 simple things that they could do. We heard from several parents that their kids came home telling them to change some things they were doing at home.

For anyone curious about the book's content, here is the table of contents:

  • Part 1: What We Know
    • The greenhouse effect
    • Energy and fuel
    • Food and farming
    • Too much stuff
    • Evidence of climate change
    • Impact of climate change
  • Part 2: The Problems
    • Why aren't we fixing it?
    • The 'Just one more cookie' problem
    • The 'That's not fair' problem
    • The 'Would I lie to you' problem
    • The 'Smelt it, dealt it' problem
    • The 'You always take their side' problem
    • The 'They made me do it' problem
    • The 'Goody-two-shoes' problem
    • The 'Magical homework machine' problem
    • The 'La la la, I can't hear you' problem
    • The 'I won't until you do' problem
    • The 'Why should I?' problem
  • Part 3: The Solutions
    • What we have to do
    • Do your best
    • Think BIG
    • Ask questions
    • Try to understand
    • Make things fair
    • Listen carefully
    • Use your imagination
    • Keep it simple
    • Work together
  • Glossary
  • Index
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