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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] 13 points 13 hours ago

Is anyone surprised? Just look around.

"A GIANT ASTEROID IS GOING TO HIT EARTH AND WIPE OUT ALL LIFE!" says newspaper after not looking up the entire time that scientists told them about it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 12 hours ago

“We had to check the calculations because it’s such a big number,”

Shits on fire, Yo

[–] [email protected] 10 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer,

is turning into,

Late Summer, Spring, Summer, Fire-Season.

It's not looking good for the species.

"Geez why aren't people having babies?"

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

Why aren't people having babies?

Last time I busted a nut, it was all colorful microplastic dust.. 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 hours ago

Oh, the world is fine, it's already its sixth mass extinction event. It is us who are fucked.