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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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‘It’s due to climate’: the people of Stourbridge on the town’s wildfires | Thursday has been described by residents as ‘horrendous’, ‘distressing’ and ‘one of the scariest days of my life’ (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] notsosure@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (9 children)

Pretty funny that people now say these fires and heatwaves are “due to the climate”. Have they been living under a stone? Meteorologists have been predicting exactly this situation for YEARS! Folks, this is manmade, CO2-based climate collapse happening right in front of us. And it will get worse.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Yeah. I overheard someone say “I guess it’s due to the - oh what is it we’re supposed to say? (“Climate change?”) Yeah, climate change.”

Like, it wasn’t a fifty year old concept.

[–] zeroclue@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ignorance is bliss. I envy these people sometimes, living under such a huge rock must be nice and cozy.

[–] liuther9@lemmy.world -1 points 2 weeks ago

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