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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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[–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Other people's homes burning or flooding won't make a difference. When coffee supply is impacted people will start to care.

[–] federalreverse@feddit.org 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Coffee and cocoa have been getting more expensive. And we also have replacement products for them being invented already.

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 week ago

Lots of food has been getting more expensive. The response seems to be largely electing climate deniers.

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 13 points 1 week ago

Because there's a huge and expensive campaign to desensitize, trivialize and make people think we can't do anything about it.

[–] azolus@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago

Maybe both the climate crisis and the disinfo have a common cause?

[–] xilliah@beehaw.org 2 points 1 week ago

We could live in domes and play Rollercoaster tycoon 2