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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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[–] JillyB@beehaw.org 3 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Btw there's a good chance that you're in that 10%

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

https://wir2026.wid.world/insight/global-economic-inequity/ (Figure 1.4)

To belong to the top 10%, an individual must earn about $65,500 per year (around $5,460 per month). To reach the top 1%, the threshold rises to about $250,300 annually ($21,860 per month). Unsurprisingly, most of the population earning at these levels is concentrated in Europe, North America, and Oceania.

[–] architect@thelemmy.club 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

That’s not high income groups, though. It’s not high income to make 65k in America. No way are you burning more than rich anyone else in any even developing country.

[–] rmrf@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

You don't think someone making 65k living with a smart phone, car, AC, electric heat, using goods like toilet paper, hot water, plastic, crafted metals, etc. produces more pollution than someone in the 90th percentile wealth in a developing country?