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:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
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Oh come off it-- we're only just now catching back up with the 18-freaking-80s? We can do better than that. Come on, I wanna see RECORD-BREAKING warming this quarter /clueless
Don't worry, the WaPo headline writer fucked up. They contracted "the fastest measured since the start of the dataset in 1880" to "the fastest since 1880", when they are very different.
Climate change was going at its slow natural pace in the 19th century, they just didn't measure it in this particular way yet. Ice cores show us climate change history over a much longer period.
No, we're just competing with other mass extinctions at this point. Asteroid impacts, lakes of lava the size of continents, the entire world choking on toxic fumes at once, that's the scale of disaster that capitalism is. Yellowstone can't touch this.
Yellowstone can't touch this
USA USA USA
More seriously, fucking terrifying. Things are going to get really bad :(