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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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The historic U.S. heat wave is rattling climate scientists. Here's what they have to say (www.sfchronicle.com)
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[–] BertramDitore@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago

Yeah it’s been brutal in Northern California. It’s March, and we’re already hitting temps we get in the middle of summer. Barely dropping under 60 overnight.

Pulled out my linen clothes and started thinking about hooking up my AC, in fucking March. My $200 energy bill is about to get even more ridiculous.