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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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While the U.S. sits in self-imposed isolation, the rest of the world, led by China, raced ahead to invest in renewables and commit to climate action.

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[–] etherphon@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We didn't give up on it, business decided we should give up on it, or rather they decided to stop pretending like they cared. We're out here sorting our garbage and picking up after ourselves meanwhile they're shitting all over the planet, what do.

[–] the_q@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 days ago

Instead we should be physically destroying this system, but even the most outspoken of us won't give up our comforts. We're the problem just not in the way people are quick to disagree with.

[–] Dogyote@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago

It's a temporary setback