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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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[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago

Kind of a furphy though, there is only a matter of small degrees here.

There is no ability to be invested and not have a impact on the biosphere that's sustainable. An ex aple.of this might be Ed Sheeran stunt here in Australia where he traveled by train to get to his concert. No mention that he had to fly to Australia and I'm sure Ed wasn't in coach, mention of support staff, nor the 1000s of fans getting there nor the massive energy needs of holding such an event

this article is the Ed Sheeran of climate action. some people respond with, well, it's better than nothing but that's precisely the point, no it isn't. and until we are at least honest about this the destruction will continue. The entire way we live and organise ourselves on the planet is completely unsustainable. Truth has been the first casualty of the war on the planet