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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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Post-COP 30 Modeling Shows World Is Far Off Track for Climate Goals | A new MIT Global Change Outlook finds current climate policies & economic indicators put the world on track for dangerous warming (insideclimatenews.org)
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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well duh, we needed to do net zero to only just avoid the worst scenarios, it still wouldn't have fixed it.

Yet now we seem to be moving away from that, predominantly because America wanted to elect a corrupt pedophile to run things, and the majority of the rest of the world's leaders seem to be happily kowtowing to his anti-environmental agenda.

[–] PointlessProtestAgainstTheMachine@lemmy.org 1 points 2 days ago

You’re not wrong, but most of the world is flat out ignoring climate change.