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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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Earth is heating up faster than at any time in its history (www.newscientist.com)
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[–] Rothe@piefed.social 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

The species who will suffer the most and go extinct has had nothing to do with this. The climate change is all on humans, but most other species will suffer and die along with us. There are species going extinct right this moment on account of climate change.

Meanwhile it is unlikely humans will go extinct, because we are much more capable of adapting than all those highly specialised species who suffers the most.