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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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[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Climate change is going to force migration from certain areas. Whether that happens through a planned, humanitarian process or through crushing poverty enacted by insurance markets is up to us.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 days ago

Sure. Americans want to live in fairy tale land where everything is fine and no changes are necessary. But eventually they will be forced to choose.

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

“We’ve consistently voted Republican, they try nothing, and we’re out of ideas.”

What’s the Midwest got going on that’s driving up the costs?

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)
[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 2 points 1 week ago

More tornadoes too I think. More intense rain at times.

Hail. Yes and constant stream of questionable roofers coming to your door.

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

That’s what I was thinking. Crazy.

[–] tornavish@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 week ago

It certainly couldn’t have anything to do with the economy