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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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[–] _Nico198X_@europe.pub 32 points 4 months ago (2 children)

we're all losing the information war. the world hates truth and loves lies. we're fucked. it's all over but the shouting.

[–] KelvarCherry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 4 months ago

and the shouting means so little when your voice never hits the speakers. Black-box algorithms and big-tech social media platforms really snuck up on progressive politics.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I was going to say. Cimate, vaccines, thinking obvious assholes are in peoples best interest. Yeah I agree with yas.

[–] _Nico198X_@europe.pub 3 points 4 months ago

yeah, i truly wish it weren't so, and i hate being doomy negative. but i don't see a way out of this. it's not even like they will Darwin themselves out of the genepool, since their choices effect others, and they raise their kids with the same madness.