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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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[–] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 12 hours ago (7 children)

I’d love an electric car if I wasn’t living in a third world country.

I don’t have a way to charge them in my condo and the infrastructure outside of the main city here is almost 0 if not actually 0.

I was close to considering one until my wife and I took a trip about 5 hrs outside of the city and I realized that there would have been no way to drive there and back in the electric car.

I guess it would be possible, but I’d have to do a bunch of planning and calling around to secure a place to charge and it might not even be possible if the hotel or destination will not allow it.

[–] yessikg@fedia.io 3 points 8 hours ago

An electric bicycle, scooter, or vespa might be easier

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