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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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[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't know why anyone is surprised

[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean, I'm surprised at just how short sighted or straight up evil so many people seem to be. At some point you'd think one of them would wake up.

[–] binux@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

you’d think one of them would wake up.

I think they’re pretty much all awake already. No one is convincing them to be like this or blinding them of common sense, they choose to act this way. Typically either because of self-centred greed or pure stupidity, or both.

Of course there’s also that quote about how people who rely on not understanding something to make a salary will never do otherwise.